Author: Mellow Curmudgeon

My blog touches on many things, often with humor and/or haiku. I have been a scientist; an engineer; an Alzheimer’s caregiver.
haiga, humor, language, photography, serendipity

Mother Nature’s Inner Child

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Her crayon goes from Sun to Earth,
thru a window and some glassware,
and then a little farther still.
She scribbles nonsense on a wall.

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Yes, using the category [ekphrastic poetry] would be more accurate than using the category [haiga].  The word [ekphrastic] is way too dysphonious for describing any kind of poetry I might like, so I pretend that the poem is a haiku.  Close enough?

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flowers, humor, photography, seasons

Goldenrod

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Ah, such a cheery yellow graces the month of September.  Alas, ragweed flowers out of sight at the same time, giving goldenrod a bad rep among some people with hay fever.  While ragweed sheds pollen to the whims of the wind, goldenrod holds pollen that will be picked up and transported by insect pollinators.  You’re not likely to inhale any goldenrod pollen unless a bee crawls up your nose.

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birds, haiga, haiku, humor, photography

Teenager

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Too old for childhood;

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too young for raising children.

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Blurry persona.

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Like many juvenile birds, this male cardinal sat still and looked befuddled, then changed position a little, and then sat still and looked befuddled.  With his face centered in the focus frame and a moderately fast shutter speed, he should have been in focus.  My camera’s autofocus probably got distracted by the twigs all around him.  While my camera has good manual overrides for most of its automatic choices, its manual focusing is a lame joke.  So I made lemonade from lemons with the final line of my haiku.

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haiga, haiku, photography

Abandoned Temple

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The haiku here is a 5-7-5 version of the last 3 lines from a poem by Patrick Jennings.

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Memories linger
tho nobody is still here
to remember them.

Visit Lingering to see the inspiration.

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haiga, haiku, photography

Basking Snake

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I glanced down and broke stride just in time to avoid stepping on this snake, then took some photos.  I was briefly puzzled that the snake seemed to have chosen dappled sun for basking when full sun was available, but the whole driveway may well have been in dappled sun when the snake chose a spot earlier in the morning.  It’s more fun to imagine that the snake had to rethink choosing looks over practicality.

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