The Platypus. A motley assortment of elements with unexpectedly poor flight characteristics that yet can thrive in multiple environments.
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Patience [Senryū]
Spider builds its web
line by line, and then waits;
I watch for two minutes.
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Alone in the Cold [Haiku]
Beetle [Lyric Poem]
A Beetle that was built like a tank
Crawled over a blazing riverbank
Now as any sane one would think
It should head straight for the drink
To cool off its little ole toes.
But as astute readers will know,
It hasn't really got any toes,
So, it can walk hot sands real slow.
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River Taco [Lyric Poem]
We kayak where lives Hippopotamus,
And hope it isn't submerged, a-bottom us.
With kayak a quite crunchy hard shell --
Us: savory filling that screams and yells, --
We'll be a three-bite river taco to hell.
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Fly [Haiku]
fly in Summer,
buzzes around a cow --
dodging whip-tail.
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Bird on a Wire [Haiku]
a bird alights
onto a windswept wire;
then seems to doze.
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Baby Monkey Wisdom [Kyōka]
the fixed boulder
makes great shelter;
rolling boulders
make monkey paste:
how do baby monkeys know?
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Squirrel Grandiosity [Lyric Poem]
A squirrel sat straight upon a dirt mound.
It could survey the woods for miles around.
Holding an acorn like a microphone,
The rodent seemed to be deep in the Zone.
Perhaps comedy stylings or folk songs?
But it just chewed its nut loud and long.
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