Category: nature
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Beach trip, May 2025
Eons ago, we traded wings for speech and legs to run and now we spend eternity regretting our choice. ____ On our last trip to the beach pelicans flew single file off shore. Seagulls hung in the air waiting for food to drop; shiny grackles brazenly stole food from wagon stashes of tourists. An attractive…
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Cattail tales
dragonfly swoops gathers mosquitos in its maw other mosquitos oblivious death passed them by 7-3-25
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summer solstice haiku
on the longest day, off the well-worn path, beauty blooms among the weeds 6-20-25
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dawn haiku
long shadow morning early bird gets the cool breeze locust drone in trees 6-18-25
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haiku of the pond
damsel and dragon skim the surface looking for mosquitoes to eat 6-16-25
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Fresh cut flowers
Bouquets of roses Fresh cut Look alive But are dead Sit on tables In pretty vases Wait for The compost pile Admired By the living A funeral parlor’s Sweet fragrance 6-2-25
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haiku rinse
moss glows fertile green birds sing the morning awake woods drip last night’s rain 5-30-25
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haiku for the mycelium within
deep within hard ground something desires to be free open up, let it out 5-29-25
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Goose pond
Every year I watch you from across the pond put on a green coat, wave your hands in the sky, stand summer strong in the wind, don yellow and autumn gold, go naked for a winter bath, before you dress for spring, again. Do you watch me come each morning, prayers on finger tips slowly…
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