Haiku (X) Over Texas

30,000 feet
below, cloud shadows lie pinned
by shafts of  sunlight.
 
Fern-like arroyos,
brown frond, spread feathered fingers
over dusty plains.

© Magdalen Jago 2008                                           

 
  
 

 
 
 

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Haiku (IX)

 
 
 
Towering cloudward,
lichen-bearded pines, grasping
root-cracked rock, dig deep.
 

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Haiku (VII) Fox

Frail twigs bound with hay
cup the blindly peeping chicks
as wind tossed boughs flail.
 
One dainty black paw
extended, bright eyed red fox
pins a fallen chick.
 
Wing beats knife the air,
blur his sight, deafen his ears,
Snap! Snap! His jaws close…
 
On the empty air.
 
© Magdalen Jago 2008
 

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Haiku (IV & V)

Haiku IV
 
Mist drips drops, rain rains.
Laid in a dryer season,
the footpath is gone.
 
©  Magdalen Jago
 
 
Haiku V
 
Storm air shimmering,
strings of cloud beads, lightning torn,
sink toward pools of sky.
 
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Squirrels – Eichhörnchen

   
There were eight of them, the roundest, fluffiest squirrels I have ever seen, busily chirruping to one another, perched on the fence and the lower branches of the pines and walnut tree that cluster at the end of the drive. Their conference was punctuated by brief bursts of scurrying over and under one another in [...]

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Haiku (III) Kingdom Insecta

 

His eye on the crown,
the ant storms the gnarled tree root’s
mossy parapet,

-while-

A beetle trundles
‘cross twig bridges from leafy
isle to leafy isle,

-and-
 
The waterstriders
ride the currents ’round pebble
archipelagos.
 
 
© Magdalen Jago

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