a butterfly
plays with shape & shadow
on a sunlit leaf.
Shadow Play [Haiku]
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Category Archives: wildlife
Squirrel Alarm [Haiku]
Downpour [Haiku]
drying cormorant
folds up its wings, resigned
to grounding by rain.
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Starling [Haiku]
a starling stomps,
like a masked bandit,
across dusty earth.
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One Fish [Haiku]
solitary fish
darts about at lake's edge:
taunting fates & fishers.
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Last Dance [Haiku]
tattered butterfly
comes to rest after a
spastic last dance.
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Rocky Outcrop [Tanka]
the rocky tip
of grass-coiffed outcrop
is all I see,
but the sound of a crow's "CAW!"
comes through loud & clear.
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Monkey Insight [Kyōka]
langur in a tree
remains still as others flee;
it seems to know
my limitations as well as
its own capabilities.
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DAILY PHOTO: Mussoorie Monkeys
Weightless [Haiku]
a heron stands tall
at the branch’s end,
as if weightless.
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