Category: Birds
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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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Spring
white lilies yellow flowers violets in the shade wisteria green grass azaleas along a fence black crow Carolina wren hawk circles in a blue sky 3-26-20
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In Greening Wood
03/24 “One plods along in a state of amazement, sometimes smiling sometimes weeping.” Farid al-Din Attar from his poem ‘The Conference of Birds’ crows return from winter retreat robins strut on sandy ground pear tree hosts a cabaret of wrens jays and cardinals flash blue and red mockingbirds court along a fence woodpecker stalks a…
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grandson haiku
young boy up at dawnbaits hook, sips hot chocolateold crow sits quiet 3-19-20 **title from wife
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