on the cobbles
of an ancient city,
sparrows peck.
Cobbles [Haiku]
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Tag Archives: animals
Land at Rest [Haiku]
the land rests
after the harvest;
birds feed on remnants.
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Hilltop Temple [Haiku]
Coiled [Haiku]
neck coiled,
egret hovers stock still
to snap up a fish.
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Silent Autumn [Haiku]
“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.
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Winter Rooster [Senryū]
The Avian Unseen [Haiku]
Winter Fields [Haiku]
tawny grain stalks,
unkempt, like mussed hair;
a bird flies out.
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PROMPT: Favorite Animal
I’m not sure whether the intention is to determine one’s favorite species of animal or one’s favorite particular individual animal. I’ll presume the former as the latter would turn it into a “Which of your pets (or children — for those who count humans among the animal kingdom) do you love best?” type of question — which is awkward to ask anyone with whom one is not on intimate terms.
At any rate, I’ve come to think of assigning favorites as a bad habit of lazy minds, intended to negate the need to actively observe and to see the beauty and brilliance of whatever stands before one at any given moment. [It’s part of a vast array of patterns people develop to be as cognitively disengaged as can be managed.] So, I don’t have a favorite species of animal, but aardvark does come first in the dictionary, if not in my heart.
[Incidentally, when I had multiple pets, I did have a favorite, and — perhaps tellingly — it was the one whose personality was least like my own.]
Tiger Riding for Beginners 