giant stag beetle with broken antler and limp still freaks me out
Giant Stag Beetle [Haiku]
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Category Archives: wildlife
Hawk, Psych! [Free Verse]
the hawk's head-shifts are precise and follow in rapid succession... and then cease it lifts one feather at a time as if sniffing its pits it shifts from talon to talon, and then once more it seems to be settling in, getting comfortable for a long stakeout... and then it's gone, diving off the ledge, disappearing into the city valley
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Lilac-Breasted Roller [Senryū]
Noisy Parakeets [Senryū]
noisy parakeets loop above the neighborhood: just flockin' around
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Bear Bouffant [Limerick]
There once was a quite sizable bear -- yet more imposing for its shaggy hair. "If I took a shave, I'd better fit my cave, but hunters would laugh, not beware."
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Weightless Birds [Free Verse]
tweets & cheeps i hear them all: dainty expressions of tiny birds i hear them amid the neck-stretched caws of jungle crows & amid the circling screech hawks weightless birds: flitting & jumping, flitting with wings blurred to invisibility & jumping: bounce - bounce - bounce
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Infinite Snails [Haiku]
in a tree hollow,
snails multiply as far
as the eye can see
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Spider in the Sand [Haiku]
a spider scurries
across the sand, without
dislodging a grain
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DAILY PHOTO: Turtle on the Forest Floor
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In Tall Grass [Free Verse]
Do you feel unease, walking in tall grass? Visceral tension? A primal impression from a time when a wounded beast [on its belly, & with labored breath] retained enough energy for one last lurch to impale its hunter? A raspy groan or bloody burble, and the jerky wave of the grass might be all the warning one got before The End.
Tiger Riding for Beginners 