December 22, 2010 at 10:50 am · Filed under Animals (Dobutsu), Birds, Birds of Prey, Haiku, Pigeons, Poetry, Seasons (Jiko), Time of Year, Winter and tagged: animal, bird, flight, hatchet, hawk, metaphor, pigeon, predator, prey, sharp shinned hawk
A flying hatchet:
The shape of the sharp-shinned hawk
Pursues the pigeons.
December 15, 2010 at 10:21 am · Filed under Animals (Dobutsu), Birds, Birds of Prey, Earth and Water (Chiri), Haiku, Life and Death, Poetry, Seasons (Jiko), Snow, Time of Year, Winter and tagged: bird, cardinal, claws, falcon, feathers, hawk, predator, prey, pun, red, snow, songbird, white, winter
Pierced by falcon claws
Red feathers on the white snow
A cardinal sin.
November 12, 2010 at 11:09 am · Filed under Animals (Dobutsu), Birds, Birds of Prey, Haiku, Human Affairs (Jinji), Pastimes, Poetry, Time of Year, Winter and tagged: 3 word wednesday, 3ww, falcon, falconry, flight, haiku, hawk, human, pastime, peregrine falcon, predator, sports, winter
A swooping gesture:
The hawk’s immediate stoop,
Falconer’s treasure.
For 3 Word Wednesday
gesture, immediate, treasure
October 16, 2010 at 7:25 am · Filed under Animals (Dobutsu), Autumn, Birds, Birds of Prey, Dragonflies, Earth and Water (Chiri), Field, Haiku, Insects and Spiders, Poetry, Seasons (Jiko) and tagged: autumn, dragonfly, falcon, field, haiku, hawk, kestrel, meadow, poem, predator, prey
The red dragonfly
quarters an autumn meadow.
Snatch! – the kestrel’s claws.
October 7, 2010 at 2:41 pm · Filed under Animals (Dobutsu), Autumn, Birds, Birds of Prey, Seasons (Jiko) and tagged: autumn, Basho, bird, birdwatching, Cape May, falcon, flight, haiku, hawk, migration, nature, poem, simile
Quick as a surprise
The first migrating falcon
Over Cape May Point.
The Basho haiku that inspired me, loosely paraphrased:
Solitary hawk
The delight of finding it
At Irago Point.
October 6, 2010 at 2:38 pm · Filed under Animals (Dobutsu), Autumn, Birds, Birds of Prey, Haiku, Pigeons, Poetry, Seasons (Jiko), Songbirds, Winter and tagged: autumn, birds, falcon, fall, haiku, hawk, nature, pigeon, poem, predator, prey, sparrow, winter
Pigeons and sparrows
Panic into whirling flocks
Pointed wings above.
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