Archive for bird
April 29, 2011 at 12:22 am · Filed under Animals (Dobutsu), Birds, Haiku, Plants (Shokubutsu), Poetry, Seasons (Jiko), Songbirds, Spring, Time of Year, Trees and tagged: bird, birdsong, blue, bud, bunting, color, gem, haiku, indigo bunting, poem, postaday2011, sapphire, simile, song, songbird, spring, tree
Bluer than sapphire
Singing from a budding tree
Indigo bunting.
0.000000
0.000000
April 25, 2011 at 9:21 pm · Filed under Animals (Dobutsu), Birds, Haiku, Human Affairs (Jinji), Pigeons, Poetry, Seasons (Jiko), Spring, Time of Year, Transportation and tagged: bird, car, haiku, hubcap, illusion, parking lot, pigeon, poem, postaday2011, reflection, rival
Parking lot pigeons
Strut toward reflected rivals
In shiny hubcaps.
0.000000
0.000000
April 20, 2011 at 6:01 pm · Filed under Air and Sky (Tenmon), Animals (Dobutsu), Birds, Haiku, Human Affairs (Jinji), Poetry, Seasons (Jiko), Spring, Time of Year, Transportation and tagged: bird, chimney swift, flight, haiku, jet, metaphor, migration, plane, poem, postaday2011, swift
Listen – in the sky
Tiny jet planes twittering
Chimney swifts are here!
0.000000
0.000000
April 19, 2011 at 12:09 pm · Filed under Animals (Dobutsu), Birds, Clothing, Haiku, Human Affairs (Jinji), Poetry, Seasons (Jiko), Songbirds, Spring, Summer, Time of Year and tagged: bird, clothing, haiku, hat, nest, poem, postaday2011, sparrow, spring, straw
An old summer hat
Missing straw around the brim
Sparrows build their nests.
0.000000
0.000000
April 9, 2011 at 10:46 am · Filed under Animals (Dobutsu), Birds, Haiku, Poetry, Seasons (Jiko), Songbirds, Spring, Time of Year and tagged: bird, haiku, hermit thrush, poem, postaday2011, song, songbird, thrush
Ethereal song
Liquid notes that spiral up
Vanish into air.
0.000000
0.000000
April 7, 2011 at 1:15 pm · Filed under Animals (Dobutsu), Birds, Haiku, Plants (Shokubutsu), Poetry, Seasons (Jiko), Songbirds, Spring, Time of Year, Trees and tagged: bird, cardinal, finch, haiku, mockingbird, poem, postaday2011, robin, song, spring, suprise, tree
Robin, cardinal, finch
All singing in the same tree
No – one mockingbird!
0.000000
0.000000
April 6, 2011 at 1:14 pm · Filed under Animals (Dobutsu), Birds, Haiku, Poetry, Seasons (Jiko), Spring, Time of Year and tagged: bird, haiku, onomatopoeia, poem, postaday2011, song, starling
Shaggy starlings buzz
Clack and rattle, hum and squeak
Each a one-bird band.
0.000000
0.000000
April 2, 2011 at 12:47 pm · Filed under Animals (Dobutsu), Birds, Earth and Water (Chiri), Haiku, Morning, Poetry, Seasons (Jiko), Songbirds, Spring, Time of Day, Time of Year and tagged: bird, blackbird, haiku, marsh, morning, personification, poem, postaday2011, red-winged blackbird, song
Red-winged blackbirds call
Trilling, thrilling “o-ka-lee”
Waking up the marsh.
0.000000
0.000000
March 23, 2011 at 6:12 pm · Filed under Animals (Dobutsu), Birds, Earth and Water (Chiri), Evening, Haiku, Poetry, Pond, Seasons (Jiko), Spring, Time of Day, Time of Year, Waterfowl and tagged: bird, evening, flight, goose, haiku, lake, poem, pond, postaday2011, reflection, spring, wild geese
Two geese flying low
Descend toward their reflections
Evening approaches.
0.000000
0.000000
March 21, 2011 at 5:05 pm · Filed under Animals (Dobutsu), Birds, Flowers, Haiku, Plants (Shokubutsu), Poetry, Seasons (Jiko), Songbirds, Spring, Time of Year, Trees and tagged: animal, bird, black, blackbird, cherry, color, flower, haiku, pink, poem, postaday2011, reflection, spring, tree
Pale pink reflections
On a blackbird’s glossy wing
Springtime cherry tree.
0.000000
0.000000
A Haiku Each Day 