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.

Updraft [Haiku]

a vulture soars,
riding the updraft and
sniffing for Death.

“The Eagle” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson [w/ Audio]

He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands
Ring'd with the azure world, he stands.

The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls.

In-Flight Refueling [Haiku]

a bold crow
shops for lunch in a
bigger bird's talon.

Cobble Sparrow [Haiku]

a sparrow hops
over the cobbles,
seeking seeds.

Ducks Adrift [Haiku]

a pond in summer:
ducks look like wooden toys,
drifting leisurely.