Autumn sunlight
strikes dry pampas grass
and it flares gold.
Golden Grass [Haiku]
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“The Blossom” by William Blake [w/ Audio]
Merry, Merry Sparrow!
Under leaves so green
A happy Blossom
Sees you swift as arrow
Seek your cradle narrow
Near my Bosom.
Pretty, Pretty Robin!
Under leaves so green
A happy Blossom
Hears you sobbing, sobbing,
Pretty, Pretty Robin,
Near my bosom.
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Bee Mind [Haiku]
among Spring flowers,
bees swarm one yellow plant
that doesn't look special.
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Sunflower Horde [Free Verse]
A horde of sunflowers
Grows on thin stalks
With big, bright heads
That tilt chin-upwards.
Could they stand so tall
And proudly if they weren't
Packed against each other?
When one bitch-slaps a sunflower,
One expects its head to fly
Clean off, but it just does
An angry little head bobble,
And goes about its business,
Looking skyward...
Though - occasionally - one breaks
Into a sad nod.
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Golden Hour [Haiku]
sunup hour:
yellow blossoms turn gold;
one flutters to earth.
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“Spring Rain” by Natsume Sōseki
Cold Lilies [Haiku]
Hawkweed [Haiku]
Hawkweed blooms
beside a creek that sparkles
with summer sunlight.
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Trampled [Haiku]
beside the trail:
a trampled dandelion
springs back, slowly.
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On Mud & Lotus [Free Verse]
The saying goes:
“No mud - no lotus!”
But I can’t help but notice
That the flower is long-stemmed,
Raising it high above the mud.
A tropical newbie,
I used to confuse
Lotuses & Water Lilies.
Then I learned the simplest
Way to distinguish the flowers
(From a distance)
Is that Lily pads
Rest on the water,
While Lotus leafs
Also try to rise
above the muddy water.
I can’t help but wonder whether
Our admiration has made the
Lotus too good for its mud?
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