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Archive for Animals (Dobutsu)

Spring Song

April 5, 2013 at 9:05 am · Filed under Animals (Dobutsu), Birds, Buildings, Haiku, Human Affairs (Jinji), Poetry, Seasons (Jiko), Songbirds, Spring, Time of Year

Ersatz harbingers
Starlings imitate robins
Over city streets.

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Stolid

February 20, 2013 at 8:56 am · Filed under Air and Sky (Tenmon), Animals (Dobutsu), Birds, Climate, Cold, Earth and Water (Chiri), Field, Grass, Haiku, Plants (Shokubutsu), Poetry, Rain, Seasons (Jiko), Time of Year, Waterfowl, Weather, Winter

Rainy winter day
Geese stand like statues of geese
On the sodden lawn.

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Ephemeral

February 19, 2013 at 10:41 am · Filed under Air and Sky (Tenmon), Animals (Dobutsu), Climate, Cold, Earth and Water (Chiri), Frost and Ice, Haiku, Insects and Spiders, Poetry, Seasons (Jiko), Snow, Time of Year, Water, Weather, Winter

Flurrying snowflakes
Swarm over a frozen stream
Like summer midges.

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Inception

January 28, 2013 at 11:47 am · Filed under Air and Sky (Tenmon), Animals (Dobutsu), Birds, Climate, Clouds, Cold, Haiku, Poetry, Seabirds, Seasons (Jiko), Snow, Time of Year, Weather, Winter

The first flakes of snow
Stitched on a gray quilt of sky
Gulls soar silently.

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Aerie

January 27, 2013 at 10:00 am · Filed under Air and Sky (Tenmon), Animals (Dobutsu), Birds, Birds of Prey, Buildings, Evening, Haiku, Human Affairs (Jinji), Poetry, Seasons (Jiko), Time of Day

Peregrine falcon
Perched on a skyscraper ledge
Dusk falls down the streets.

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Lurk

January 21, 2013 at 11:24 am · Filed under Animals (Dobutsu), Cats, Haiku, Mammals, Poetry

Mysterious eyes
Peering from a secret cave
A cat in a box.

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Sortie

January 15, 2013 at 3:31 pm · Filed under Animals (Dobutsu), Bees and Wasps, Climate, Haiku, Insects and Spiders, Poetry, Seasons (Jiko), Time of Year, Winter

January thaw
Beehives send scouting parties
Searching for the spring.

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Recycling Day

January 7, 2013 at 8:24 am · Filed under Air and Sky (Tenmon), Animals (Dobutsu), Birds, Climate, Cold, Earth and Water (Chiri), Frost and Ice, Haiku, Holidays, Human Affairs (Jinji), Plants (Shokubutsu), Poetry, Seasons (Jiko), Songbirds, Time of Year, Trees, Weather, Winter

Ice on the sidewalks
A discarded Christmas tree
Shelters the sparrows.

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Festivities

December 2, 2012 at 11:23 am · Filed under Animals (Dobutsu), Birds, Fruit, Haiku, Holidays, Human Affairs (Jinji), Leaves, Plants (Shokubutsu), Poetry, Seasons (Jiko), Songbirds, Time of Year, Trees, Winter

Early Christmas treats
Red finches pluck the berries
From a holly wreath.

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Grimalkin

October 22, 2012 at 5:31 pm · Filed under Animals (Dobutsu), Buildings, Cats, Haiku, Human Affairs (Jinji), Mammals, Plants (Shokubutsu), Poetry, Rodents

The old gray barn cat
Sleeps in the sweet scent of hay
Dreaming of slow mice.

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