drying cormorant
folds up its wings, resigned
to grounding by rain.
Downpour [Haiku]
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Tag Archives: birds
Starling [Haiku]
a starling stomps,
like a masked bandit,
across dusty earth.
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Rocky Outcrop [Tanka]
the rocky tip
of grass-coiffed outcrop
is all I see,
but the sound of a crow's "CAW!"
comes through loud & clear.
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Weightless [Haiku]
a heron stands tall
at the branch’s end,
as if weightless.
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Magpie [Haiku]
Raptor Rides [Haiku]
raptor rides updrafts:
head & eye swivel-pivot;
all else, glides.
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Feeding Frenzy [Haiku]
frenzied pigeons:
a tight, geometric horde—
until food’s end.
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Heron [Haiku]
a perched heron
watches ripples of its
last attempt fade.
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Ducks [Haiku]
as the pond duck
slips & glides through water,
the shore duck is still.
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