the first cattail heads
have erupted in fluff:
autumn in progress.
Autumnal Fluff [Haiku]
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Category Archives: plants
Beauty-Blind Bees [Haiku]
a plain, green plant
crawls with bees-o-plenty:
despite no bright blooms.
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Aquatic Boundary [Haiku]
aquatic plants grow
out to the swift waters,
forming a clean edge.
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Fooled by Fall [Haiku]
such light green leaves
for the end of summer:
doesn’t that tree know?
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Amid the Oaks [Haiku]
it’s cool & rainy,
but the canopy is green:
last days of summer.
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Lily Pac-Man [Senryū]
Pac-Men multiply: sought by too few upside-down lily “ghosts.”
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Bowed Flower [Haiku]
weary sunflowers
turn their backs on the sun:
heads bowed.
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Summer Reeds [Haiku]
Buds & Blossoms [Haiku]
buds & blossoms,
in vibrant red, gussy up
a dreary cityscape.
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Willow, Won’t You? [Blank Verse]
When I see some willows - down by water's edge, drooping in the moonlight, or swaying in the breeze - I think of Blackwood's tale of Danube canoers who land upon an isle to camp among the willows. And will the willows that I see, mark wicked ground, and what will they become when darkness makes its stand? It's such a pretty tree... now all but ruined for me, and that is story's power to sweeten or to sour.
For those interested in reading the referenced story:
The Willows by Algernon Blackwood — free at Project Gutenberg
Tiger Riding for Beginners 