Stork at Dusk [Haiku]

stork silhouette
stands on a sunken branch:
dusky summer eve.

Conversation [Senryū]

two wading birds
face each other so that
their reflections can chat.

Oblivious [Haiku]

crows turn to threat:
while pigeons remain
oblivious.

Patience [Haiku]

perched egret
clears a window in pond scum,
and waits — statue-like!

Pigeon King [Haiku]

pigeons mill about --
then one finds color
in the gray city.

Cobbles [Haiku]

on the cobbles
of an ancient city,
sparrows peck.

Land at Rest [Haiku]

the land rests
after the harvest;
birds feed on remnants.

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.