Category: nature
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shadow play
From my seat in the shade I watch a leafy shadow sway Back and forth in a patch of light It wavers high overhead Oblivious to it’s shadow dance And oblivious of me 5-16-24
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still life
in a pretty vase waist deep in tap water trying not to die beauty caught in full-bloom strikes an objectified pose the compost pile is calling 5-7-24
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review of new recruits
this morning resident geese paraded six goslings in single file a band of frogs on mud banks played poor covers of John Philip Sousa I paid attention to their passing while deep in green undergrowth birds wouldn’t stop talking 5-6-24
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excuses are for the weak
rainy mornings I’d stop and save the worms drowning on puddled sidewalks picked them up threw them in the grass check marks on my report card told my parents I was late they would not understand saving drowning worms so I took my punishment and moved on 5-5-24
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Sunday haiku
blue, blue morning sky all of the trees have gone green pond reflects the day 4-28-24
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dusk songs in the bush, in a tree, across the street, in the park, in my neighbor’s yard songs sung short and sweet 4-28-24
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Friday haiku
overcast morningon the other side of cloudsit’s a sunny day 4-26-24
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haiku for a grey day
turtle on mud bank mallard glides silently by and that is enough 4-22-24
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