Category: Birds
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In the quiet
In the quiet, before the birds sing before she moves from her curved space in our bed Before cars come alive before the guy who talks to a voice in his ear buds walks by I fortify myself with coffee attempt to assume a prayerful attitude and count my blessings Before the dog one block…
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walk in the woods on a sunny morning
what is this science this magic that breaks rocks for food pulls water into thin air gathers light from sky hides a beetle from a bird that leaps from a branch soars towards the sun 4-15-20
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sugar peeps haiku
ain’t no sugar peeps taking a walk in the park gander, goose and chicks 4-13-20
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4-12 haiku
before sunrise came you lay in the dark waiting for avian hymns 4-12-20 (it is supposed to rain by noon and I want to get my 3 mile walk in, so here is a haiku for you; I may edit and expand this into a tanka or I may write a longer poem or maybe…
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a monk on fire (for John Prine)
because I heard he may be dying I listened to hours of John Prine before I went to bed My wife peeked her head in my office told me an owl was hooting in a tree I never understood a hooting owl why they warned the night they would be up and hunting my Uncle…
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