Ready

Tags

berries, blackbirds, garden, Haiku, nature, Poetry

blackbirds come calling
fruit must be ready to pick
redberry raiders

Melody

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beauty, birds, blackbirds, haiku, nature, poetry, song, weather

Beauty on a dark day

low cloud, sullen mists
definitely a grey day
blackbird’s melody

Caught!

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birds, blackbirds, gooseberries, haiku, nature, ornithology, poem

There, I rest my case,
a fledgling caught in the act
could be a jailbird!

(Poor image, taken through window)

Better

sweetness

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birds, blackbirds, garden, gardening, gooseberries, haiku, nature, poetry

On moving on from blackberries

ripe, red gooseberries
should you doubt their crisp sweetness
blackbirds will confirm

Ripe

Tags

birds, black currants, blackbirds, fruit, haiku, nature, poem, poetry, summer

Blackcurrants are ripe
My favourite summer fruit
Blackbirds get there first!

y fwyalchen

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birds, blackbirds, fwyalchen, haiku, honey, melys, nature, ornithology, peace, poetry, silence, song, wales, Welsh

On a Welsh language haiku

can y fwyalchen
melys fel y mel cyntaf
yna, tawelwch

the blackbird’s song
sweet as the first honey
then, silence

Dancers

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birds, blackbirds, dance, dew, haiku, morning, nature, ornithology, poem, poetry, weather

hop, skip and a jump
blackbirds dance in morning’s dew
brightest orange beaks

Evening

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birds, birdsong, blackbirds, Jupiter, nature, poetry, stars, tanka, Venus

On enjoying a quiet moment
(Tanka)

Pale blue evening, stars
Venus and Jupiter shine
before moon rises.
A blackbird, the last songbird’s
sweet voice in the fading light.

dipped

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blackbirds, dew, haiku, May, padaver, poetry, poppies, Poppy, spring

a morning in May
dew dipped poppies resplendent
blackbirds serenade

ripe

Tags

blackberries, blackbirds, crop, fruit, haiku, nature, poetry, seasons, summer

on the garden fence
golden eyed blackbirds gather
blackcurrants are ripe