Ready

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berries, blackbirds, garden, Haiku, nature, Poetry

blackbirds come calling
fruit must be ready to pick
redberry raiders

Lives

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garden, haiga, Haiku, nature, photo, photography, poem, Poetry, weather

in rain battered grass
ragged daisy waits for sun
fragile lives, tough times

Success!

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haiga, Haiku, life, phot, photography, poem, Poetry, success, tractor

singular success
a newly restored tractor
that’s one happy man

Waiting

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caterpillar, death, Haiku, nature, oblivion, philosophy, Poetry

do caterpillars
fear there’s an oblivion
waiting in the wings?

Blade

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dew, grass, Haiku, nature, Poetry, thistle

wet grass on bare feet
each blade tipped with a dewdrop
unnoticed thistle

Nestled

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beauty, haiga, Haiku, life, nature, peace, photo, photography, poem, Poetry

little hideaway
nestled away at lane’s end
peace and solitude

Feeder

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birds, goldfinch, Haiku, nature, poem, Poetry

empty bird feeders
one optimistic gold finch
a sorrowful ‘tweet.’

Bedraggled

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birds, Haiku, nature, poem, Poetry, sparrows

rain falls in curtains
garden drought a memory
bedraggled sparrows

Big

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flowers, fly, haiga, Haiku, insect, nature, poem, Poetry, thistle

Yellow rimmed icon
Metasyrphus Corollae
Big name, little fly

Quick

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gin, haiga, Haiku, humour, nature, photo, photography, poem, Poetry, sloe

nowhere near ripe
berry soaks up the sunshine
sloe, sloe, quick quick gin