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

Beware!

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birds, Bob, earwig, gardening, gardens, haiku, nature, robin, wildlife

(written in warmer weather)

Moving flower pots
Robin Bob picks off earwigs
Beware the big ones!

Visitor

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blood, death, feathers, haiku, hawks, nature, raptors, red, sparrow hawk, wildlife

Sparrow hawk visits
Quick cloud of small white feathers
A red bloom opens

Raven

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corvids, haiku, nature, ode, ornithology, photogrphy, poem, raven.birds, wildlife

 

Against bluest sky
Ebony plumage glistens
Ravens have such style.

This was an ode worm.
When an idea rattles around
and around the mind
and just will not
settle in an acceptable
form.

Harbinger

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albatross, birds, Coleridge, humour, limerick, poem, wildlife

(you know who you are 🌤)

 

A wild wandering albatross named Harbinger
Went seeking a bird friendly orator
He swept way down low
The Antarctic did go
Ending up in a tale ’bout a mariner

(obvious apologies to Coleridge)