Category: nature
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rain haikus
empty coffee cupgo inside before it rainsand take a shower —————————- heavy morning airfull clouds darkening to greyrain in the forecast 2-17-23
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Faraway somewhere
4 am, half awake, deep-throated, distant fire truck siren wails. Its angry horn bellows, lookout! Complains again at another intersection. Ambulances and police cars sing harmony. Racing towards Hopkins on Garners Ferry Road, they do not turn into our neighborhood. In a faraway somewhere a family is in distress. Happy they did not stop at…
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Late afternoon haiku
bright, warm winter day piercing bird calls rise above low hum of rush hour 2-13-23
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Deep in the Detritus
Do you think the caterpillar in its cocoon upon the forest floor looked forward to being reborn with wings and sipping nectar through its nose. I much prefer their second life, but I cannot speak for them. 2-11-23
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John Dillinger visits South Carolina
Flowering bush bleeds red on brown leaves moss paints asphalt green bright morning before rain Spring does not wait for Equinox to turn the key 2-10-23
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Park bench haiku
blue sky speckled white western breeze, bringer of change forecasts cold and rain 2-1-23
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A Double kind of negative morning
In the creek behind our daughter’s house greening undergrowth, hyperactive birds, tree frog choral sound track. In a distant somewhere, a fleeing train calls out it has room for one more. Me…I sit on our daughter’s patio adrift in an ambience of now not going no where 1-31-23
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haiku rain
tree frogs harmonize descants, trills and drumming rain listen under eaves 1-30-23
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Lady of the lake
On the far side of water twenty feet from shore she stood looking at me look at her looking at me look at her… wondering why I came each morning and stood in the same place counting the name of God five times on each knuckle. I wondered why she was not standing knee deep…
