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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Saturday, June 11, 2011

Haiku 2011 - #187


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the robin's ku
of ev'ning sun, his shadow's
ku of shadow

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Haiku 2011 - #186


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ev'ning sun ...
a bit of sand, a bit of star
finds its light again

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Haiku 2011 - #185


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the ant
in the old way, a new way
home

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Haiku 2011 - #184


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chestnut snail
grain to grain
sipping the rain

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Haiku 2011 - #183


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of things I'll forget ...
ants hiding eggs
in spring rain

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Haiku 2011 - #182


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of things I'll miss ...
fist-fills of maple seed
falling

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Haiku 2011 - #181


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of things I'll forget ...
deep in grass, the deep pause
of the robin

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Haiku 2011 - #180


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sudden pour ...
a moment's poor poor
sparrow

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Haiku 2011 - #179


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rain ... the passing sun
draws and tips the open lips
of buttercups

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Haiku 2011 - #178


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black night too close
young trees too tight, stop pushing
... tickle tickle

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Haiku 2011 - #177


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warming rains ...
slugs on slugs papered
in apple blossoms

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Haiku 2011 - #176


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raveled ends of spring ...
the orchard bee
courting last petals

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Haiku 2011 - #175


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a dispute of jays ...
today I'm counted better
than bulldozers

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Haiku 2011 - #174


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the owl
now prays well away
from heathen crows

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