burnt

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autumn, fall, haiku, nature, sea breeze, seasons, wind

sycamore leaves brown
looks like an early autumn
no, it’s sea breeze burn

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

Loot

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bees, flowers, garden, haiku, honey, nature, photograph, photography, pollen, pollenate

Honey bee heads home
Loaded with plundered booty
Flowers get their cut

breakfast

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birds, garden, goldfinch, haiku, nature, ornithology, thistles, wildflowers

wildflower garden
thistle seeds bring goldfinches
intent on breakfast

ripe

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

on the garden fence
golden eyed blackbirds gather
blackcurrants are ripe

surfers

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beauty, cobwebs, haiku, nature, poetry, spiders, summer, surfing, wildlife

beautiful morning
sun shines on floating cobwebs
spiders wind surfing

hedgehog home – update

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haiku, hedgehog, home, nature, poem, wildlife

First night occupant
little hedgehog seems happy
what an appetite!

 

Hedgehog home

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haiku, hedgehog, home, mammals, nature, wildlife

Built a hedgehog house
Two rooms, bedroom and diner
Should I advertise?

Snack

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haiku, hawk, nature, poem, poetry, raptors, sparrows, tragic

Six fledgling sparrows
perch unheeding on shed roof
Quick snack for a hawk

Daisies

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daisies, daisy, haiku, nature, poem, seasons, summer, weather

Cold, grey summer’s day
What happened to the sunshine?
Massed daisies shine white