silent

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autumn, bird, death, fall, haiku, leaves, mortality, poem, poetry, seasons, silence, song, thrush

under an acer
part hidden by Autumn leaves
a silent song thrush

 

 

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Killed

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death, hunters, pathos, pheasants, poetry, sadness, shooting, tanka

On the welsh roadsides
windblown feathers of pheasants
mown down by traffic
Hunters robbed of their victims
Unconscionable pathos

Ambience

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ambience, death, Handel, misery, music, thoughts

Just a passing thought.

Imagine the ambience in the house
as Handel composed
‘Dead March from Saul.’

Beware

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animals, cats, death, haiku, lilies, Lilly, loss, nature, poetry, poison, toxic, wildlife

On hearing a neighbour’s dilemma

Elegant lilies
such innocent assassins
poisonous to cats

Damn!

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death, friendship, haiku, loss, mortality, poem, poetry

Damn, blast and damn it!
Another friend ceased to be
Mortality sucks!

 

Killing

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blackbird, death, european blackbird, haiku, nature, ornithology, poem, violence, wildlife

On seeing a killing

two blackbirds compete
silent fury, sharp beaked murder
no quarter, just death

time

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death, fishing, haiku, life, living, mortality, poetry, winds

On reviewing the year

This year I have lost
four friends to the winds of time
I’m going fishing

 

sad

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birds, birdstrike, death, haiku, nature, poem, poetry, sadness

on the clean window
faint outline of a songbird
such a sad demise

Passing

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death, haiku, life, mono, musing, photo, photogrphy, poem, poetry

such transient lives
there’s barely time to focus
blink, there it was, gone

fleeting

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anniversary, death, father, haiku, poem, sorrow, time, whispers

(on the twentyfifth anniversary of a death)

once so full and bright
our lives before long become
faint, fleeting whispers