raptor rides updrafts:
head & eye swivel-pivot;
all else, glides.
Raptor Rides [Haiku]
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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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“Raven at Dusk” by Matsuo Bashō [w/ Audio]
Spring Green [Haiku]
grass, shaggy & green,
sprawls across the valley;
swallows race & jink.
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Disappearing Pigeons [Haiku]
a cloud of pigeons
wheels about in a broad loop;
a thin batch returns.
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Dogfight [Haiku]
swallows dogfight
out over the lake:
belly-bumping swells.
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“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.
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Raptor Unseen [Haiku]
a hawk screeches
somewhere in the valley,
but remains unseen.
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