Dark Deer Poems

Author’s note: The following is in haibun form—poetic prose (microfiction with less than 200 words in this case) coupled with a haiku. It was written...

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Sam Adams 
Lived in Medford Oregon
Where he ran a vacation home business
And was part of the Ashland Chamber of Commerce
Who were his adopted family

One day...

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Oh DEER, You again….


At the crack of dawn
Outside my bedroom window
Unexpected noise?   Chewy, crunchy, crumbly
……I’m trying to sleep

Oh dear!  deer is staring...

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Deer Ruby,

Daddy doubtful hardly Dorothy know you ...
it’s the bare bones, Toto truth

Variety gossip on the street
by parrot beaks chirping canary peeps

Said your mother had...

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The dark drives wind-horses.
They enter the car through your eyes
as you side-slip bends,
veer from contorted shadows.

Once, the hind hoof of a doe
slapped at your face,
the...

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In the knife-edged saw grass
a fawn high-steps behind
his mother's tail
With an eerie whoop,
a rusty- winged chicken
warns them away from
his purloined roost
Renegade rooster on the lamb,
flapping...

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I met a deer
I met a deer a big brown deer.
We met in the dark. 
Not as friends just a run of the mill meeting.
I...

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My wife Jill was just commenting on how 
she saw some deer when she came home 
from choir practice Wednesday. They were 
about 30 feet...

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Pansies and Deer

No matter what I planted and suppose
There will be a place where a weed grows
And then all of my lawn as I look...

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On the forest edge young beautiful and wild                 ...

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