Haikai Poems - Poems about Haikai

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haikai ********** Summertime Theme summertime sunshine finds a gap in the curtain lights up my true love the summer sun burns respite clouds shadows much needed rain we all enjoy fun summer holidays no rain we all pay the price hosepipe ban will come flora fauna begging drinks worms now out of reach black headed gulls tap dancing mimicking rain nothing there to fool summertime its joy can become cries for help don't...

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daylight fading nineseventeen pm hedgehogs feeding light holds nineseventeen pm horizon glows a blackbird sings nineseventeen pm good night houses lighting up nineseventeen pm days still lengthening croaking frogs a splash nineseventeen pm Basho comes to mind evening beckons bats nineseventeen pm the gardeners' friends sat by the pond nineseventeen pm mosquitoes feasting hot and humid nineseventeen pm sleeping naked the garden buzzing nineseventeen pm june bugs make a show **************** nineseventeenPM Poetry Contest - Sponsored by John Lawless 19th June 2018 haikai - May...

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dawn a flash of light summer sun escaped the clouds a blink in time sparrows twittering fledgelings begging to be fed a watchful cat warm westerly breeze consolation for no sun the warmth factor summertime blinked one-day last year a Monday July the tenth suntanned my body fake news in a bottle binned sunglasses its summer time no nature is lying hush pretty baby my apple tree has yet to bloom and produce summertime blues...

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the cinnabar moth a summer diurnal one check out the ragwort peppermint stands mint moths' abundant tiny summer potatoes a rambling rose buds showing waiting to burst a flowerfly drones bees not many some burrowers one or two campion self-seeds tis the morrow morn west is the forecasted wind southwest for the swifts...

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haikia ~~~~~~~~ another night torrential rain fills my butt summer drought respite - a blackbird bathing another overcast day like Trump dense widespread - midges mosquitoes larvae live food for the carp land fauna struggles - dogwood tree in bloom not gone unnoticed plus bees late summer berries - no butterflies two days since then only one summertime failures - most life can adapt overtime wet nights remiss wet dry balance gone - a happy note a blackbird sings joyful dusk still no...

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late spring arthropods not as things should be many absentees - swallows still absent butterflies the odd one today a wood brown - azure springtime sky should be full of life... empty no i'm going blind - house sparrows chirping heard but cannot be seen pond water warming - the common garden spider A diadematus absent could be it is late ...

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haikai **************** touched by a zephyr evoked memories your breath warm summer days - finding the balance on a hot sunshiny day dappled shadows - my garden bench i share with untidy guests bird droppings sun baked - summer storm threatens yet not a cloud in the sky wise are the insects - a distant rumble the summer storm passed us by wildlife exploded - ere the season a garden... a way of life a summer reward - i found the...

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haikai ****** the buddleia a diurnal kingdom... butterfly courts a coronation the orb brightest of orange... painted lady crowned bees flowerflies wasps most grateful to their host... the gardener nocturnal bats moths hedgehogs if lucky a fox... a hidden frog croaks dusk a blackbird claims no doubt a choral master... may bugs abundant the Scots pine maypole cockchafer fly... encircle... black headed gulls dine sun rays horizons belies wonder starlit night... late rooks kark their way slight cooling...

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cows... milked by first light pasture... some moments respite fresh mushrooms... breakfast calf's... lambs... foals... goats kids all milk dependent... from mom's grateful the kittens nature providing sustenance nurturing life no nurture... no milk ...

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wild Australia hark... sounds of didgeridoos mobs of kangaroo Australian folk... Aboriginals suffer arpartied still reigns... Australian folk... at one with nature... what's left arpartied still reigns... vistas of nature o that monolith could talk Australian woes deforestation all life suffers pollution koala's left dead crocodiles... wildlife Australia's indigenous extinctions for real ...

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~~~~~~~~ climate change... killing spring bees... spiders many flies early nesters starve once joy the seasons... the charm of springs overture... winter defies it... today... house sparrows seen nesting... nature wishes... hopeful they succeed... grass... verdant... growing... hedgerows holding back... afraid... full spring biding time jet stream...rioting lost its way... meandering disturbing nature the hill piste lingered children smiled... sledging... what fun comes the rain... flooding hot then cold weather flu...

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~~~~~~~~~~~~~ look... early snowdrops buried twice this springtime winter stealing time proud dandelions confounds the seasons... blooming twelve o'clock midday winters snow in spring protection from jack the frost confused... yes i am... puffed up birds feathers trapping in their body heat ducks... swans... ice skating blizzard... white out pollution... total wipe out nature... we'll not know sunshine... till it dies nature... human... wild... ignorant will all life suffer... the oceans ripple the calm before...

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calm days oceans fit dress coastlines in white lace treacherous... the storm on the wind it glides oceans of the south surveyed albatrosses feed penguins flighty birds cross ice bellies down... feet push water... flight masters aquatic parrots puffins come to land to breed Icelanders eat them oceans deep smokers new life evolves... dies when stubbed potential islands iguanas some vegetarians dive oceans to feed sea mammals... furry all once murdered for their coats babies...

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Come what do you see take one breath then tell me or write ...

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