Posts tagged forest
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A Baltimore Oriole landing in a high tree branch in springtime.

His singular song
saved for this April forest —
up down and up down.

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A chicakdee perched in a tree with the sun shining through its tail feathers in springtime.

It’s getting later,
chickadees revelating,
there is more to say.

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A Robin perched in a tree with another in the distance in another tree in a spring forest.

Color coming in,
a Robin in every tree —
each one breathing life.

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A Canadian Goose standing on a large rock in a river in springtime.

He stood on a rock,
huge on the river bottom,
then stepped in the flow.

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A titmouse in a tree in springtime.

Earnest in springtime,
he pulls songs deep from his chest
that bounce off the sky.

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A pair of mallard ducks sit and guard their nest on a riverbank in springtime.

A pair of mallards
like sentinels in springtime —
eggs at river’s edge.

Jennifer FarinaA pair of mallard ducks sit and guard their nest on a riverbank in springtime., jfarina, jenniferfarina, art, artist, abstractart, abstract, artwork, artstudio, originalartwork, painting contemporaryart, creative, haiku, watercolorpainting, nonrepresentationalart, poetry, personalessay, painter, annarbor, wabisabi, brushstrokes, ink drawing, handmade, sketchbook, collage, cut paper collage, paperstars, imperfect, impermanent, incomplete, forest, river, mallards, ducksComment
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A clump of bloodroot and squill blooming in springtime.

Bloodroot and blue squill
open to woodpecker drums
in the spring forest.

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A clump of hepatica blooms opening through dead leaves on the forest floor in springtime.

Oh you wistful girl,
hepatica up through dead leaves,
alive underground.

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A garter snake coiled on the forest floor in springtime.

Sleeping with lichen —
the garter wakes in the woods
under April sun.

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A Robin singing high in a tall tree in springtime.

Reedy and intent,
his song is automatic —
Robin in springtime.

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A long view of a decaying tree on the forest floor covered in green moss in the sun on a spring day.

Cheer, cheer, cheer, cheer, cheer,
the cardinal, relentless
in these darkest times.

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A male and female pair of mallards swim in a spring pool filled with relfections in April.

Their wake breaks shadows
cast across cold spring pools —
duck pair in April.

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A male and female pair of mallards swim in a spring pool filled with relfections in April.

Ducks swim in spring pools,
their beaks reflected make four —
above and below.

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A small abandoned bird's nest built in the thicket of a marsh in early spring.

Vacated last fall,
a nest as big as my palm
in the cold spring marsh.

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A small splitgill mushroom growing with lichen on a fallen branch on the forest floor in eary spring.

It gets lost, hidden —
this life isn’t long enough
for all the beauty.

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Late afteroon light on a river with branches hanging over with early spring buds.

To friends healing well,
writing good and bad poems,
some peace being found.

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Silhouetted branches of a tall tree with the shadows of red-winged blackbirds perched and flying.

From every branch
red-winged blackbirds’ fresh singing
fills the spring forest.

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Sunlight on a river's surface that looks like stars.

Light on the river,
Whitman, Frost, and Oliver
have been here before.

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A red squirrel in a tree with sun shining on it.

Eating the lichen
as March sun wakes cardinals —
the small red squirrel.

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