Archive for Seabirds
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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March 20, 2012 at 9:31 am · Filed under Air and Sky (Tenmon), Animals (Dobutsu), Birds, Clouds, Fog and Mist, Haiku, Poetry, Seabirds, Seasons (Jiko), Spring, Time of Year, Weather
Foggy spring morning
Seagulls embroidered in white
On the quilted clouds.
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February 3, 2011 at 4:41 pm · Filed under Air and Sky (Tenmon), Animals (Dobutsu), Birds, Poetry, Pseudohaiku, Seabirds and tagged: animal, bird, black, color, flight, gray, metaphor, personification, postaday2011, pseudohaiku, seagull, sky, white, wings
Gray and white seagull
With wingtips dipped in black ink
Writing on the sky.
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November 26, 2010 at 2:36 pm · Filed under Animals (Dobutsu), Autumn, Birds, Haiku, Holidays, Human Affairs (Jinji), Pastimes, Poetry, Seabirds, Seasons (Jiko), Time of Year, Transportation
Crowded shopping malls
Grudging gulls give way to cars
In their parking lots.
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November 23, 2010 at 10:44 am · Filed under Air and Sky (Tenmon), Animals (Dobutsu), Autumn, Birds, Clouds, Haiku, Poetry, Seabirds, Seasons (Jiko), Time of Year, Weather and tagged: animal, autumn, bird, cloud, flight, haiku, seagull, sky, wings
A soaring seagull
Gray wings shade into gray clouds
Fading like the fall.
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October 17, 2010 at 7:59 am · Filed under Air and Sky (Tenmon), Animals (Dobutsu), Beach, Birds, Celestial, Earth and Water (Chiri), Evening, Haiku, Ocean, Poetry, Seabirds, Seasons (Jiko), Spring, Sun
Reflection in sand
The seagull’s tide-made mirror
Spring’s sun sets, serene.
For Haiku Heights #13
Prompt 13: Serenity
and Scenic Sunday #118
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October 15, 2010 at 7:58 am · Filed under Animals (Dobutsu), Autumn, Beach, Birds, Earth and Water (Chiri), Haiku, Ocean, Poetry, Seabirds, Seasons (Jiko), Shorebirds and tagged: autumn, beach, bird, haiku, ocean, poem, sand, sanderling, sandpiper, sea, shore
Sanderlings scurry
The line between sea and shore
Stitched up by bird tracks.
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October 9, 2010 at 10:29 am · Filed under Air and Sky (Tenmon), Animals (Dobutsu), Beach, Birds, Celestial, Earth and Water (Chiri), Seabirds, Seasons (Jiko), Summer, Sun and tagged: animal, beach, bird, haiku, metaphor, nature, poem, seagull, summer
Red-rimmed yellow eye
Seagull glaring at the sun
Daring it to blink.
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A Haiku Each Day 