Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Haiku 2011 - #241


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a friend's birthday ...
the poplar fluff
wobbles home

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Haiku 2011 - #240


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a break in the rain ...
the ant takes a brother
home

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Haiku 2011 - #239


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hide and seek ...
the blue damselfly
wins

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Haiku 2011 - #238


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wind in summer poplars ...
the chickadee's
first dance

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Haiku 2011 - #237


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the jay's
scratch scratch scratching ...
no, that's not right

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Haiku 2011 - #236


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a pinch of sun ...
a little wind left
in the fly's old wing

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Haiku 2011 - #235


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a moment of sun ...
it catches
even the chickadee

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Haiku 2011 - #234


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what I remember ...
poplar fluff clutched
in the shards of old leaves

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Haiku 2011 - #233


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... the slug's glass trail.

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Haiku 2011 - #232


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ants piling sands ...
the deep things
the unsaid things

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Haiku 2011 - #231


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tiny things, cotton things
ev'ry drifting summerthing
in the ev'ning light

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Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Haiku 2011 - #230


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... but before I speak
the robin, the robin
the robin

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Haiku 2011 - #229


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bowing with the bee ...
alms for prayers
one by one

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Haiku 2011 - #228


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it comes to me ...
the simple trust
of a drifting poplar seed

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Haiku 2011 - #227


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blackberry seed ...
the ant's long and narrow road
home

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Haiku 2011 - #226


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day without rain ...
ants sweeping
the snail's winter cottage

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Haiku 2011 - #225


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June twentieth ...
the snail's solitude
not far behind

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Haiku 2011 - #224


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the robin's song
here then there ...
it's good to sit, good to listen

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Haiku 2011 - #223


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that bee
that first summer bee
caked in buttercups

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Haiku 2011 - #222


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the morning's riot of jays ...
she fits in
a warble or two

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Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Haiku 2011 - #221


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ev'ning's rust ...
a twisting thread
of silver

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Haiku 2011 - #220


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first buds of bramble ...
Strawberry Moon
lost in the night's rain

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Haiku 2011 - #219



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voices in the mornin' rain ...
can't bear repeatin'
what the crow said


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Haiku 2011 - #218


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chickadee
chickadee ...
can't do it like you

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Thursday, June 30, 2011

Monday, June 13, 2011

Haiku 2011 - #214


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mornin', no words ...
them birds, them jays jus' scratchin'
that same ol' scratch

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Haiku 2011 - #213


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Sunday morning ...
first verses
of the robin's dream

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Haiku 2011 - #212


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after rain, ants
packing spring
sorting summer

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Haiku 2011 - #211


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songs of young robins ...
my old glories
in old boxes

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Haiku 2011 - #210


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first light ...
the spring lambs
answer a robin

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Haiku 2011 - #209


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songs of children ...
the winter wren's
tuft of poplar

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Haiku 2011 - #208


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morning rain in cedar ...
the calls and cawls
of lesser things

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Haiku 2011 - #207


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peanuts in the morning rain ...
a chuckling circus
of jays

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Haiku 2011 - #206


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creeping bramble ...
the whisper game
of chickadees

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Haiku 2011 - #205


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the slug's day-long ku ...
just the word
I'd choose

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Haiku 2011 - #204


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rain and first light ...
the robin's ku
of worms

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Haiku 2011 - #203


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free of the words ...
summer wren
caught in the morning rain

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Haiku 2011 - #202


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... in summer wind
the poplar
teasing swallows ...

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Haiku 2011 - #201


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today's unbeaten path
begins with the snail's
spittle

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Sunday, June 12, 2011

Haiku 2011 - #200


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bound for home ...
the warbler mentions
one last thing

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Haiku 2011 - #199


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there, still in the wind
the collected works
of the robin

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Haiku 2011 - #198


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an hour or two ...
at last
the poplar's shadow

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Haiku 2011 - #197


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I swear
the bird was humming
just before the rain

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Haiku 2011 - #196


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wild wind wild sparrows ...
no doors to open
no doors to close

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Haiku 2011 - #195


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poplars adrift
in north winds, again
the phoebe's name

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Haiku 2011 - #194


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first light ...
the hummingbird
waking buttercups

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Haiku 2011 - #193


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cleared meadow ...
a swallow
sketching from memory

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Haiku 2011 - #192


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sudden rain's end -
a last sparrow calls
to the secret places

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Haiku 2011 - #191


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tiny maples ...
a page lost
from the sparrow's tale

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Haiku 2011 - #190


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Memorial Day ...
a little flourish
in a last blossom

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Haiku 2011 - #189


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ev'ning, the setting winds ...
the ku of spring
tossed ev'rywhere

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Haiku 2011 - #188


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young robin
his coat of youth in tatters
flies flies away

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