Nature Calls
...chattering chirpers
rambunctiously racing
fireflies like little lanterns
wee wind and raindrops
luscious le...
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Categories:
chirpers, bird, nature, rain, tree,
Form: Free verse
Gemini Garden, Silent One
...“a mute tongue is a slave to silence” - Silent One
You rouse the proud, sung praise all wowed
Who draws the crowd and plays so loud?
Sway befits a rock star jam
Baby, it'...
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Categories:
chirpers, appreciation,
Form: Lyric
Stream
...sings with wood chirpers
streams down wild to get cooler…
winding grass zipper
April 4, 2023 10.15pm
A New Nature Themed Haiku
Contest Judged: 4/9/2023 6:54:00 AM
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Categories:
chirpers, water,
Form: Haiku
Wing a Little Wink
...Dew christens morning grass underneath my feet
Chilled senses in the mist, fill of something sweet
Sun teases its reveal, tempting me to pause
Palms in a flurried rush...
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Categories:
chirpers, happy, life, love, nature,
Form: Couplet
My Yesterdays, Todays, Tomorrows
...My ‘not-just-six relatives’ tree enlivens…
Living, thriving, struggling and
clinging reminders even ‘dead wood’!
Bringing life anew reveals…
One and all, grandparents, parents,
m...
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Categories:
chirpers, 12th grade, beautiful, celebration,
Form: Free verse
The Vanilla Ice Cream Knights and the Raspberry Queen
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"The Vanilla Ice Cream Knights and The Raspberry Queen"
"You’ve been spooning
too much Vanilla Icecream”,
she advised the buffoon
all the f...
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Categories:
chirpers, adventure, anti bullying, august,
Form: Free verse
Oscine Affinities For Summer Summit
...Up for grabs are looming sapidities of a summer summit.
Prompt as forecasting device, keen as cropland mice,
trying to surpass oscine elves turns out no dice.
Wondering how these yummy yodelers ...
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Categories:
chirpers, bird, cheer up, summer,
Form: Free verse
Hopes of Tree Chirpers
...my hands are cold and the night drifts on
maybe I’ll awake before pre dawn
birds will be chirping , perhaps a song or two
I will see them settle in the morning dew.
should they sing before ...
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Categories:
chirpers, bird, death of a
Form: Rhyme
Pond
...I might like to be a pond someday
In a Cascade mountain green forest and thick.
Sparrows, swallows, chirpers of all kinds
Glide in at dawn to drink and chat.
Trout with bass take afternoon naps--...
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Categories:
chirpers, nature,
Form: Free verse
Sorrel Swamp
...Through the fetid swamp we slogged
We sat and rested on a log
Where are we? Mr. Harbid said
On a log in Sorrel Swamp, just you and me and Ed
All along the road I thought
Wrong way, wrong way a...
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Categories:
chirpers, adventure, lost,
Form: Rhyme
Benny Blue Beetle
...Benny Blue Beetle ran up a limb
He knew he could fly but he couldn’t swim
Way up in a tree way out in the air
He leaped and he flew way over there
Up high in the top of the mulberry tree
He look...
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Categories:
chirpers, children, nature,
Form: Rhyme