Skittish is the Great Blue Heron.
It feels when you're stopped and starin'
and will crisscross water like Charon
to keep you on the other side.
Great Blue Heron [Lyric Poem]
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Tag Archives: Heron
Great Blue Heron [Haiku]
Heron at Dusk [Haiku]
dusky summer eve:
a heron wades in shallows,
blindly fishing.
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Reflection [Haiku]
heron & reflection drift apart
until one of them vanishes.
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Conversation [Senryū]
two wading birds
face each other so that
their reflections can chat.
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Ibis [Lyric Poem]
The Egyptians found the Ibis sacred.
This must have made the Ibis elated.
I watched one try to push a Heron around;
The unimpressed Heron just stood its ground.
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Home Invasion [Haiku]
the heron stares at
the unwitting egret’s back:
unfond of flatmate?
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Weightless [Haiku]
a heron stands tall
at the branch’s end,
as if weightless.
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Lily Pad [Haiku]
lily pad sprawl:
herons march, beak-down,
on the shifting surface.
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Heron [Haiku]
a perched heron
watches ripples of its
last attempt fade.
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