Moorhen
...A good friend once told me that kingfishers know the secrets of the universe
But dear friend, what about this moorhen on the rivers verge?
And as I sit and wonder what my moorhen thinks
Around ...
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Categories:
moorhen, adventure, animal, appreciation, bible,
Form: Rhyme
Ballad of Unsprung Spring
...The winter time has had its day,
Was what we all believed,
As signs of spring were everywhere.
But seems we've been deceived.
Evil April brings Arctic blast
Now more snow has arrived.
It seem...
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Categories:
moorhen, nature, seasons, spring, winter,
Form: Ballad
Once Upon a Countryside
...Once were badgers in leafy dale,
once were rabbits and foxes too,
once were pheasants in shining copse where cuckoopint and coltsfoot grew.
Once were songbirds in privet hedges,
once were blu...
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Categories:
moorhen, anger, angst, emotions, longing,
Form: Rhyme
Somnambulism
...I'll look for you
in the deep, cobalt blue
of a mountain lake,
or the startled crake
of a moorhen,
flushed from its nest,
or the idle word, said in jest
over a steaming mug,
as we huddled an...
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Categories:
moorhen, break up, fantasy, lost
Form: Free verse
Winterland
...Black, cracked ice on a brooding fen,
Lamented calls of teal and moorhen,
Echo across frosted tundra and fell,
Accented by a single, mournful church bell.
Knitted reeds, hard bit by the frost,
M...
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Categories:
moorhen, winter,
Form: Acrostic
Summer Walk
...A shoal of roach fast scatter at my shadow.
Mother moorhen toots as chick ducks in
and out of overhanging ivy.
A boating flower floats along intact
with shadow's faithful dancing follow,
on gr...
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Categories:
moorhen, beautiful, bird, celebration, creation,
Form: Rhyme
Haibun 2017 - Images Me Feeding the Ducks Winter 2010-11
...Haibun 2017 - Me Feeding The Ducks Winter 2010/11
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Feeding the hungry, ducks, geese, swans, moorhen, coot, and gulls. The image depicts me in the win...
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Categories:
moorhen, nature,
Form: Haibun
Lake Life
...Life on the lake today, well, checking my notes i can say: Swans a pair, mallards, so many, widgeon a few, one shoveler i viewed too. Then came the geese, a long way from home, Canada in fact, so col...
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Categories:
moorhen, nature,
Form: Haibun
Approaching Storm
...Skulking between the thinning clumps
Of tattered sedge
A balding coot despondently calls,
Scratching Blackbirds scutter deeply
Into a Hawthorn hedge;
Whilst, creeping stealthily,
Gathering da...
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Categories:
moorhen, weather,
Form: Rhyme