unreliable narrator –
a story corrected
by an old friend
#DailyHaikuPrompt | friend
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smallpoems
well into winter
prairie clover seeds
depleted by sparrows
#DailyHaikuPrompt | clover
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winter twilight –
a pair of cardinals devour
the last sunflower seeds
deer in the headlights –
late night
on a quiet gravel road
#DailyHaikuPrompt | late
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fierce north wind –
a harrier skims
the prairie
#DailyHaikuPrompt | sail
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sun drenched –
the pasture filled
with sleeping foals
#DailyHaikuPrompt | colt (foal)
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a tiny hole poked
in the silence –
canyon wren
#DailyHaikuPrompt | calm
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gigawatts more
than the corn –
windmills sprout in the fields
#DailyHaikuPrompt | windmill
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morning coffee –
fresh snow on the
Abajo Mountains
#DailyHaikuPrompt | mountain
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box elder seeds –
helicopter races and
noisemakers
#DailyHaikuPrompt | maple
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field sparrow –
a ping-pong ball bounces
in the prairie
#DailyHaikuPrompt | sparrow
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three crows kvetch
about an owl –
morning fog in the valley
#DailyHaikuPrompt | morning cloud
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three centuries –
grooves sanded in the
cemetery stile
#DailyHaikuPrompt | sand
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near the bud
a gathering of ants –
nodding peonies
#DailyHaikuPrompt | picnic
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humidity on the rise –
a few black flies stuck
in the fresh paint
#DailyHaikuPrompt | paint
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potatoes
grow slowly underground –
September sunrise
#DailyHaikuPrompt | potato
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evening mosquitoes –
the whine of a
Razr on the road
#DailyHaikuPrompt | pest
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giving in to temptation – cold plums
#DailyHaikuPrompt | plum
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footfalls
on the bridge --
a ripple of swallows
#DailyHaikuPrompt | splash
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dawn –
the slug’s night journey
fades
#DailyHaikuPrompt | morning dew
#SmallPoems
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storm clouds ...
a flash
of inspiration
#DailyHaikuPrompt | lightning
#SmallPoems
pasture fog –
the old mare
a darker gray
#DailyHaikuPrompt | pasture
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rosebuds
in a tangle of weeds –
her untended garden
#DailyHaikuPrompt | rose
#SmallPoems
Mom's home has been vacant for a while now. I'm seeing the effect of her care dissipate. And the persistence of beauty.