Stoneware bowl
imagines being …
balsa bird.
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Category: haiku
Dahlias at a Diner
When they bloom,
each day is sunny.
Food’s good too.
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Basking Snake
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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Deciduous Trees
Lifeless? No, leafless.
They hold their breath all winter,
exhale leaves in spring.
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Persistent Purple
No longer pretty,
potted tulips catch my eye
until petals fall.
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Shockwaves?
Water in glassware
plays prism with morning light.
Serendipity.
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Internal Reflections
Sunlight on the pine
caroms off lens surfaces
and shines from within.
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Vocal Visitor
Caw from unseen bird.
Crows are louder and shriller.
Could be a raven.
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While my own sightings are few and long ago, I believe ravens still inhabit the region where I live and am confident that I can distinguish the croaking caw of a raven from the canonical caw of a crow. (Don’t hike much any more; still big on alliteration.) I also have some of indigenous folklore’s admiration of ravens, so I celebrated hearing one with a haiku. That posed a problem.
An ordinary image of a raven would not work for my haiku about an unseen bird thought to be a raven. I considered posting the haiku by itself, but I like images. Hmmm. I can photograph the nondescript view toward where the call seemed to originate. Can I then find and tweak an image of a raven to make a ghostly overlay that fits the mood of the haiku? Yes!
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Dusted for Fingerprints
Snow on lawn.
Tracks from last mowing,
seen again.
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Shadow Song
Gourds bask in sunlight;
shadows sing a silent song.
They both contribute.
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Last Few Nights of Old Year
Seen thru bare branches
that thrash in an angry wind,
Xmas lights shimmer.
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Lingering Leaves
Cherry hibernates,
safe under pine’s watchful eye.
A few leaves linger.
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The cherry had one last leaf on 11-26.
Did it sing Nunc dimittis before it fell on 11-30?
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Last Song of the Leaves
The sound of dry rain
fills the air above my yard.
“Keep the rake handy.”
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Glory in Gold and Silver
October
Bright sun and cool air;
azure skies and pumpkin pies.
Leaves fall in glory.
Silver Savior
The crowning glory
of our civilization
is, of course, duct tape.
Glory ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #334
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Turning Sequence
Still-green oak
will follow maple
in due time.
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Flaming Breath
Grumpy dragon
stays outside photo frame.
It’s a bad scales day.
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Mellow Curmudgeon 