Animal Haibun Poems

There is new life everyway in the skies, trees and both in the earth and under it
Lambs skipping chasing each other then running to their...

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Little Bit waddles and limps downstairs at the sound of my voice. Barks at the hyperactive English Springer with all the fervor of Boris, the...

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nasty smells drift across the fields Especially from the cess pit, oh how yucky when spread on fields certainly not helping, nor does passing a...

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Venturing outside, I notice that the freshly fallen snow rests upon the park bench as if it were a feather cushion, soft and warm. It...

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The winter solstice time is no longer celebrated as it once was, with the understanding that this is a period of descent and rest, of...

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I rose early, quietly slipping into my walking clothes. I gently opened my front door and headed towards the nearby walking trails. As I walked...

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Our meadow has always held surprises. After we moved in - that first spring - a myriad of daffodils appeared from dormant bulbs, exactly where...

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If I search through old memories, shaking dust from visions long filed away, I can see scenes from my childhood. Whenever I am feeling old,...

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I was once told a story, of the wee folk of Bensham Bog; they live in carved mushroom houses that are shaped like bullfrogs and...

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Cumulus clouds slide stealthily across the horizon;
a lone raven sits cawing.  Yellow leaves falling signal the end of Summer's embrace as a chill breeze...

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"Life is like a book that never ends, 
chapters close, but not the book."

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from somewhere within

I am still a bit “childish”.  Age hasn’t diminished my desire to jump in puddles, blow bubbles in my chocolate milk, tease...

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It was revealed that crows can remember the human faces who capture them. According to a study published in the journal Animal Behaviour, ravens which...

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daybreak calls off moon's whitewash

in the wee of this morn I startled up from what quite seemed like a crash landing from midair plunge of...

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Remember my brother’s tender eyes.. never failed to support needy, with compassion and gentleness. For him, not one human being deserves to suffer, every animal...

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