a crow alights
on a slender, bare branch,
riding the bounce.
Crow Alights [Haiku]
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Tag Archives: birds
Lily Pad Heron [Haiku]
water lilies stand
confidently, while herons
step warily.
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Hornbill [Haiku]
perching hornbill:
a plodding half-ton bovine
doesn't merit attention.
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Cormorant Patience [Kyōka]
the cormorant,
glistening & dripping,
must air dry
before it’s a bird again;
humans cramp in the pool.
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The Brave One [Haiku]
one hundred birds
startle at my presence;
one eyeballs me.
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Crows in a Row [Haiku]
Heron Perch [Haiku]
from still water
juts deadwood on which herons
perch with their shadows.
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Diabolical [Free Verse]
I don’t mind one crow,
on a rail or curb,
by its lonesome.
Nor am I troubled by
a large number of the birds.
(The group designation “murder,”
notwithstanding.)
But where two or three
are gathered, facing
each other…
That’s when I get the
heebie-jeebies.
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Egret Eye [Haiku]
Swamphens [Haiku]
swamphens strut
at water’s edge, and
i’m a farmboy again.
Tiger Riding for Beginners 