Category: insects
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anti-malarial tanka
heavy air morning single drop breaks pond surface no wind, almost rain brown duck spreads wings flies away I wish the skeeters would, too 6-30-23
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Mud dauber
because it heard your head is full of mush mud dauber swirls around your face looking for a way in to build a nest you do not swat you walk away and live to fight another day 6-30-23
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dragonfly haiku
blue skeeter eater on a bush, sits next to me looking for breakfast
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hot summer morning haiku
lovelorn insects sing piercing songs of want and need fragrant tea grows cold 7-9-23
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haiku for a dead cicada
cicada carcass no more late night mating calls eat, sing, breed and die 7-16-23
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Sundown
light hangs on the rim of the sky bullfrogs call back and forth along the pond, tree frogs chatter in the foliage mosquitoes have become vampires clouds grumble about the heat and promise rain desperate cicadas scream come find me; I don’t want to die alone 7-21-23
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Of the pond
still water mirror reflects the sky insects drone birds are quiet swallowtail glints yellow in the sun dragonfly skims weeds along the shore breeze flees hot morning waits for evening to return 7-25-23
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Georgia morning haiku
at our daughter’s place insects sing to wind in trees crows argue in woods 8-5-23
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Festival’s last day
children are up early they always are life’s a big adventure sit and listen in your camp chair somewhere someone strums a guitar flute plays in distance stage hands remove tarps fold and put away vendors gather, talk with new friends cicadas console one another PATIENCE… they’ll be gone tomorrow 8-20-23
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snake’s head
dancing in the grass reptile tail tattoo moves in rhythm up and down her spine snake’s head somewhere below beltline no questions asked no answers given
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