Snug

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alliteration, dreams, gardening, gardens, haiku, nature, poetry, seasons, snails, weather, winter

Garden slumbers on
Muddy, brown leafed winter dreams
Shell sealed, snug snail sleeps

Ruffled

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begonia, birds, flowers, gardens, haiku, nature, poem, poetry, sparrow, weather

On a windy summer’s day

clouds are rushing North
begonia petals strewn
sparrow tails ruffled

Flick

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clover, garden, gardens, haiku, nature, poetry, rabbit, wildlife

rabbit on the lawn
enjoys the uncut clover
semaphore ears flick

Wow!

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beauty, flowers, gardens, haiku, nature, poem, poetry

This year’s first poppy
a bloom with the ‘Wow’ factor
delicate ‘Kazoom!’

Promise

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beauty, camellia, gardens, haiku, nature, poem, poetry, seasons, spring, springtime

camellia buds crack
blood red petals in green cloaks
promise of springtime

bumble

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bees, bumble, gardens, haiku, poetry, pollination, weather

On enjoying the garden

 

as big as a thumb
bumble bee dances on bud
too early to sup

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’

summer’s time

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anemones, flowers, gardening, gardens, haiku, lupin, nature, seedpods, summer, time

anemones bloom
lupins’ hairy seedpods formed
Summer’s wax and wane

Rosemary

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beauty, flowers, gardens, haiku, herbs, Rosmarinus officinalis

 

Fairest of all herbs
Rosemary, sweet Rosemary
Such simple beauty

Beware!

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birds, Bob, earwig, gardening, gardens, haiku, nature, robin, wildlife

(written in warmer weather)

Moving flower pots
Robin Bob picks off earwigs
Beware the big ones!