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 – burglary!

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animals, burglar, crime, ct, haiku, hedgehog, pets, wildlife

intruder steals food
cat burglar forces entry
every biscuit gone!

(not to worry, steps have been taken and an extra plate set out for Ginger, the farm cat 🦁 )

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?

visited

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birds, haiku, poem, sparrow, wildlife

Through open window
sparrow flies in, lands, flies out
Nobody noticed

Gleam

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birds, corvid, garden, haiku, magpie, nature, ornithology, wildlife

On garden parade
Dinner jacketed magpie
Blue black plumage gleams

Pantaloons

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bees, bumble, haiku, nature, pantaloons, pollen, pollenators, wildlife

A pleasant surprise
Bumble bees on blue blossom
pollen pantaloons

Hedge sparrow

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birdsong, blackthorn, dunnock, haiku, nature, ornithology, songbird, wildlife

Bird in a blackthorn
Prunella modularis
beautiful dunnock

morality

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bears, guns, haiku, hibernation, hunters, hunting, immorality, morality, nature, poem, sadness, wildlife

little men, big guns
now they can shoot sleeping bears
Oh, America!

Crouch low

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birds, death, dove, haiku, hawk, nature, wildlife

Crouch low, little dove.
Exaltation of the hawk
brings eternal night