Party

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cabbage, Haiku, nature, poem, Poetry, slugs, snails

rain ends long dry spell
slugs and snails have party time
eat all my cabbage

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

Fennel philosopher

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Candidula intersecta, fennel, garden, haiku, molluscs, nature, snails, wildlife

Candidula intersecta

 

in green fennel strands
a small curled snail cogitates
on life’s mysteries

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snails rule – haiku

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flowers, gardens, haiku, marigolds, nature, snails, wildlife

too hot to hasten
cool snail slides with elegance
amongst marigolds

attack

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gardening, gardens, haiku, humour, lettuces, pests, snails

across damp grasses
dark battalions, hungry snails
lettuces quiver

snail wars

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gardening, haiku, nature, pests, snails, wildlife

ravenous snails lurk
under lids and lips of pots
waiting for evening

wildlife

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cat, hedgehog, snails, wildlife

The hedgehog is back and in great form. She’s taken to terrorising the cat, not knowing he has a reputation as a thug to maintain. And how wildlife adapts! Not content with raiding the cat biscuits, she ignores the snails stealing from the same dish as they snack on the way to my garden. These little beggars deserve to survive, perhaps not so many snails though.