Snack

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birds, haiku, insects, magpie, miner bees, nature, poetry, pollen

miner bees busy
black and white with pollen gold
quick snack for magpies

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Down under

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Australia, evolution, haiku, insects, nature, poetry

Different insects

Some weird and wonderful

Same survival wars

Sting in the tale

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baking, haiku, humour, insects, marmalade, pun, wasps, whiskey

Baking Dundee cake
Wasps chase whiskey marmalade
So what can go wrong?

cool

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beach, caddis, fly caddis fly, haiku, insects, summer, sunbathing, vibes

enjoying the vibes
hanging out, just being cool
sunbathing caddis

Gem

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diptera, green bottle fly, haiku, insects, nature, photograph

(best full screen)

At home on an oak
a scintillating green gem
with a hairy bum

the critic

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bee, dandelions, insects, March, seasom, story, weather, writing

(Earlier today)

 

As I write, a bee, seeking sanctuary from the cold March weather,
lands an inch from my pencil.
Keep writing.
He looks bit bedraggled; perhaps that’s what he thinks of me
though I’m probably too big to be seen.
I presume ‘He’ because it doesn’t look like a queen.
Up and down, he does a few press-ups, warming himself.
And off he goes,
looking no doubt for early dandelions or forsythia,
a rescue from this too early awakening.
Clearly not impressed by my writings.

 

bad choice

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gnt, humour, insects, nature, tea, wildlife

why did it do that?
a whole world under its wings
gnat lands in my tea

wonders

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cranefly, haiku, insects, nature, wind, wings, wonder

 

broken crane fly wing
spirals and glints in light breeze
such intricacies

late _ haku

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bees, blooms, haiku, honeysuckle, insects, nature, sunshine, winter

November sunshine
late honeysuckle tempts bees
should be safe in hives

aligned

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astronomy, bats, haiku, insects, nature, night, planetry alignment

Moon and two planets

Aligned in clear summer sky

Bats hunting insects