Raptor Rides [Haiku]

raptor rides updrafts:
head & eye swivel-pivot;
all else, glides.

Feeding Frenzy [Haiku]

frenzied pigeons: 
a tight, geometric horde—
until food’s end.

Heron [Haiku]

a perched heron
watches ripples of its
last attempt fade.

Ducks [Haiku]

as the pond duck
slips & glides through water,
the shore duck is still.

“Raven at Dusk” by Matsuo Bashō [w/ Audio]

on a barren branch
a raven has perched —-
autumn dusk

Spring Green [Haiku]

grass, shaggy & green,
sprawls across the valley;
swallows race & jink.

Disappearing Pigeons [Haiku]

a cloud of pigeons 
wheels about in a broad loop;
a thin batch returns.

Dogfight [Haiku]

swallows dogfight
out over the lake:
belly-bumping swells.

“There was an Old Man with a beard” by Edward Lear [w/ Audio]

There was an Old Man with a beard,
Who said, "It is just as I feared! --
Two Owls and a Hen,
Four Larks and a Wren,
Have all built their nests in my beard!"

NOTE: This poem no. 1 of Lear’s The Book of Nonsense.

Raptor Unseen [Haiku]

a hawk screeches 
somewhere in the valley,
but remains unseen.