The Voice

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birds, blackthorn, european robin, haiku, robin, songbird

hidden in blackthorn
a song celebrates the day
robin’s voice returned

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Voice

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'Maria Callas', birds, Callas, haiku, music, opera, wren

little Jenny Wren
weighs only half a hiccup
voice of a Callas

meeting

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beauty, birds, connection, haiku, magpie, species

magpie studies me
his gunmetal blue wings shine
we see each other

Bob’s back!

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'Erithacus rubecula', birds, birdwatching, chats, gardens, haiku, ornithology, poem, thrushes

Sprouting new feathers
European robin
Erithacus rubecula
posing behind lavender
answers to the name
‘Bob’

breakfast

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birds, garden, goldfinch, haiku, nature, ornithology, thistles, wildflowers

wildflower garden
thistle seeds bring goldfinches
intent on breakfast

wet

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birds, children, fun, haiku, july, mud, rain, seasons, swalows

first day of July
swallows seem fed up with rain
kids enjoy the mud

visited

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birds, haiku, poem, sparrow, wildlife

Through open window
sparrow flies in, lands, flies out
Nobody noticed

Gleam

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birds, corvid, garden, haiku, magpie, nature, ornithology, wildlife

On garden parade
Dinner jacketed magpie
Blue black plumage gleams

fly away

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birds, city, escape, haiku, life, nature, pollution

spent day in city
air full of noise and car fumes
why do birds live there?

Innocence

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birds, cats, chicks, deaths, feline, haiku, hunter, innocence

On seeing two untimely deaths

Lithe feline hunter
Unaware, newly hatched chicks
Dispassionate Death