ducks drift lazily
on water that sparkles
with winter sunlight.
Duck Drift [Haiku]
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Category Archives: wildlife
Diabolical [Free Verse]
I don’t mind one crow,
on a rail or curb,
by its lonesome.
Nor am I troubled by
a large number of the birds.
(The group designation “murder,”
notwithstanding.)
But where two or three
are gathered, facing
each other…
That’s when I get the
heebie-jeebies.
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Egret Eye [Haiku]
Swamphens [Haiku]
swamphens strut
at water’s edge, and
i’m a farmboy again.
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Diminished [Free Verse]
I take a sunrise photo
And find the glorious orb
Diminished by poor photography,
& upstaged by a flaring pigeon.
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Tattered Moth [Haiku]
a moth, wings tattered,
basks in the canopy-
breaching spotlight.
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Obdurate Orbweaver
some spiders scurry
when their web trembles,
but not the orbweaver.
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Lonely Egret [Haiku]
Snake Fisher [Haiku]
snake wrestles fish
onto rocky home turf, &
blends with sun-warmed stones.
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Frogs Heard, Not Seen [Haiku]
grass-rattle, plop!
grass-rattle, plop! -- repeats...
at last, I see a frog.
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