Inside View [Senryū]

snail stretches
to view the beautiful house -
too close to see.

Pigeon King [Haiku]

pigeons mill about --
then one finds color
in the gray city.

Pansy Patch [Haiku]

pansy patch:
rabbit noses out,
sniffing air.

Perilous [Haiku]

spider scurries
across sands beside
lapping waters.

Cobbles [Haiku]

on the cobbles
of an ancient city,
sparrows peck.

Land at Rest [Haiku]

the land rests
after the harvest;
birds feed on remnants.

Hilltop Temple [Haiku]

hilltop temple
comes into view
to a crow CAW!

Coiled [Haiku]

neck coiled,
egret hovers stock still
to snap up a fish.

“To a Marsh Hawk in Spring” by Henry David Thoreau [w/ Audio]

There is health in thy gray wing,
Health of nature's furnishing.
Say, thou modern-winged antique,
Was thy mistress ever sick?
In each heaving of thy wing
Thou dost health and leisure bring,
Thou dost waive disease and pain
And resume new life again.

The Avian Unseen [Haiku]

sunup:
roosters crow, birds chirp -
all unseen.