Category: nature
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Winter morning haiku
mute black birds shiver mist laden breeze on cat feet softly wets my face 2-5-2024
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an inconsiderate act
I broke a tiny bud from a limb I did not hear it scream I don’t know why I just did I cannot glue it back or heal the wound it bleeds green in the sun 2-14-2024
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Primary season in the South
South Carolina Spring cable news pundit turtles rise up from pond muck to sit in the sun geese return with loud honking neighbors feed them stale bread telemarketers gather at your feet demand you feed them, too leave greasy goose shit wherever they go 2-15-2024
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Monday morning haiku
blue and white quilted sky dead, brown leaves on green, green grass red winter blossoms 2-28-2024
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haiku pine
loblolly hurls conesnot wanting to fight todayI slowly walk on 2-25-24
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In the garden
they say this is the year of the Dragon pishhh…why not call election years the year of the Rat ya know – the kind of rat that eats the core and leaves the scraps no more animal totems or mythology to explain prehistoric bones bleaching in the sun give me a thousand years of the…
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Pantomime of Jays
Two geese court on the pond. Solitary squirrel chases shadows in dry leaves. Mourning dove coos it’s sad, lonely call from the woods. Cardinals call from park to neighbor’s house and back, again. A party of blue jays silently celebrate In trees above your head Feral cat stares at squirrel, looks up at birds and…
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Wet walking
water drips from trees, drum rhythm all its own under a shelter by the pond rain returns beneath a lachrymal sky dimples wink open and closed oblivious to rain a pair of geese drift by you drain your coffee dry and step back into the wet 3-1-24
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haiku turtles
periscoping necksturtles cruise murky waterno sun baths today 3-4-24
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