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.

Barbed-Wire Highway [Haiku]

barbed-wire strand:
a two-way ant highway,
around the pasture.

Schrödinger’s Dragonfly [Haiku]

dragonfly,
cool autumn morn:
dead or in thaw?

Chimpanzee [Lyric Poem]

Our closest relative, the Chimpanzee
Lacks our affinity to be fancy.
To them we are but pant-wearing buffoons
Who've lost all freedom to shoot the moon.

Grasshoppers [Haiku]

walking in rice stalk,
grasshoppers ping forward,
plink - plink - CRUNCH - plink...

Funnel-web Spider [Senryū]

funnel-web spider
sprints out -- tremor-triggered --
miffed to see hiker.

Blue Sheep [Lyric Poem]

The Blue Sheep must be ever so sad:
For of all the colors in which its clad --
None is blue; there're shades of brown, black, and white,
But blue must be symbolic, if judged by sight.