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

victim

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birds, death, haiku, hawk, hunting, magpie, nature, ornithology

sparrow hawk visits
hunting magpie not immune
black and white feathers

Gull

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birds, dream, gull, haiku, sky

At one with the sky
Heading for the Northern Isles
a gull, or a dream

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Arrivals

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birds, Capetown, haiku, migration, South Africa, swallows, wales

Hey, down in Capetown
The swallows are back in Wales
Thought I’d let you know

Crouch low

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birds, death, dove, haiku, hawk, nature, wildlife

Crouch low, little dove.
Exaltation of the hawk
brings eternal night