Water Heron Poems

Turtle so slow
Has emerged from below 
How does he breathe down there
Without any air
Don’t ask me how
At least not just now
I’m feeling a bit peckish
And...

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Alighting on the blue waters of the lake
      The bird looked around before its take
     ...

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The Age of Aquarius is now
Don’t be fooled by what others say they know and see
But those who have ears to hear let them hear
And...

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The River

      The swirling stream in slow eddies flows along, 
      In bright sun flecked...

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a grey heron
awaits his meal
frozen in time



submitted on July 24, for contest BIRD THEMED HAIKU sponsored by TANIA KITCHIN

posted on July 22, 2018...

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She's here again,
 nearly three feet tall
 wing span just as wide.
She arrives every day at eleven fifteen
 landing silent on the roof shed
 then...

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Languid summer day
Cloud afloat on garden pond
Silent Heron waits.

Ripples replace cloud
Water drips from Heron beak
Koi swim unaware....

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Great Blue Heron

Oh Great Blue Heron found along our shores,
Your stately presence in the water shows
A setting so sublime in quiet marsh
Where flowing grasses sway...

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for  my Father


My father is as noiseless as the bird,
Transfixed upon his pirouetting bob,
To angle fish his self-appointed job,
He speaks with silence. It is...

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In shallow water
A heron waits for its prey
Standing on one foot!...

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... chuckling quietly

    heron and water-lily

    splashing silently ......

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