Tag Archives: wildlife

Safari Guide Limerick

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Photograph of a female lion taken in Chobe National Park in Botswana.
There was a cocky safari guide
  who - of lions - was often quite snide.
    He frequently stated
    they were overrated,
  but his view was different from inside.

DAILY PHOTO: Angry Adolescent Tusker

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Photograph of an aggressive adolescent elephant in Botswana's Chobe National Park.
Photograph of a posturing young tusker near the Chobe River's edge in Botswana.

DAILY PHOTO: Helsinki from the Ferry

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Photograph of the Helsinki waterfront taken from the ferry to Suomenlinna with seagulls in tow.

Grazing Deer [Senryū]

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grazing deer
 pays hikers no heed:
  too noisy for threat.

Moose Limerick

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A tour bus sticker of mating moose
 led a tourist to say, "What the deuce?"
   "I just cannot deal
   with a tour bestial,
 and the memories that it might induce."

Crow Mind [Kyōka]

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Photograph of a crow atop an outdoor lighting fixture at Tokyo's Imperial Palace.
crow on lamppost 
 contemplates a CAW!
  but is silenced
 by a morsel clamped
 in its beak.

DAILY PHOTO: Amboseli Cranes

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Photograph of two Gray-Crowned Cranes foraging in the Amboseli wetlands.
Photograph of two Gray-Crowned Cranes foraging in the Amboseli wetlands.
Photograph of one Gray-Crowned Crane standing tall in Kenya's Amboseli National Park.

DAILY PHOTO: Trash Panda Agasp

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Photograph of Raccoons taken in the bayou of the Pearl River Wildlife Management Area near Slidell, Louisiana.

Barbed Wire Highway [Senryū]

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Photograph of fire ants on a strand of barbed wire in the countryside near Vang Vieng, Laos.
fire ant highway
 on a barbed wire strand
  makes me itch.

Dragonfly Eye [Lyric Poem]

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Photograph taken at Don Mueang Temple in the north Bangkok suburbs, features waterlilies in the fore and guardian statues in the background. 
The dragonfly strafing lilies 
 doesn't know how very silly
 a bantam taller than a ram
 seems to a ram tall as a filly.