DAILY PHOTO: Zebra of Amboseli
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Heron at Dusk [Haiku]
dusky summer eve:
a heron wades in shallows,
blindly fishing.
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Orbit [Haiku]
butterflies orbit
in helter-skelter arcs,
but never bump.
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Chital [Lyric Poem]
The Chital at the watering hole
Has one single simple goal:
To drink its fill and then to scat
Before being eaten by some big cat.
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Battle Royale [Senryū]
insects unseen:
chaotic bird movement, a
bird battle royale?
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“The Oven Bird” by Robert Frost
There is a singer everyone has heard,
Loud, a mid-summer and a mid-wood bird,
Who makes the solid tree trunks sound again.
He says that leaves are old and that for flowers
Mid-summer is to spring as one to ten.
He says the early petal-fall is past
When pear and cherry bloom went down
in showers
On sunny days a moment overcast;
And comes that other fall we name the fall.
He says the highway dust is over all.
The bird would cease and be as other birds
But that he knows in singing not to sing.
The question that he frames in all but words
Is what to make of a diminished thing.
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Anyone Home? [Lyric Poem]
I came across a turbinate shell
While walking forest, glade, and dell.
With fingernail, I gave a tap
To learn if its tenant was in nap.
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PROMPT: Best/Worst Pets
Best: Dogs and Cats
Worst: Hippopotami, African Elephants, the Black Mamba, Right Whales, Pumas, Condors, Puffer Fish, Howler Monkeys, Rhinoceroses, Hammerhead Sharks, Lowland Gorillas, Geese, Cape Buffalo, Galapagos Tortoise, Bengal Tigers, Pronghorn Antelope… , and anything else that some jackass builds a house-sized chain-link fence cage in his backyard to “keep.”
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Bird on a Wire [Lyric Poem]
On a pleasant mid-Spring day,
A bird landed -- no bounce or sway.
It perched, chirping - as if in play:
I blinked, and it'd flown away.
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Reflection [Haiku]
heron & reflection drift apart
until one of them vanishes.
Tiger Riding for Beginners 