Complaints

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blackbirds, gooseberries, Haiku, nature, poem, Poetry

topping and tailing
four kilo of gooseberries
complaining blackbirds

Hunter

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birds, blackbirds, Haiku, nature, poem, Poetry

head to one side

a blackbird listens for worms

orange eyed, alert

worms

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birds, blackbirds, frost, Haiku, nature, poem, Poetry, worms

on a day of frosts
when dramas fill the airwaves
blackbirds still catch worms

gone

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blackbirds, christmas, haiga, Haiku, HOLLY, nature

in the holly tree
blackbirds make a feast of it
Christmas berries, gone

Ready

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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

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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