Marveling at your bird app
Mimic sounds of a species
Make a tufted titmouse sing
Move in on a sandhill crane
Mating call is now released
Menacing drop of its head
Mark your retreat with rigor
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dVerse prompt to use the Pleiades form—
seven lines, each line has seven syllables and must start with the first letter of the one word title (true story about my husband and his birding)
I remember sleeping out under the stars during a Girl Scout campout. It was an open area, few light pollutants and a cloudless night. I learned the North Star (Polaris), the dippers both Big and Little (Ursa Major and Minor), Cassiopeia, and as we lay on our sleeping bags looking up, a cross directly above us. The scout leader shone a flashlight into the direction she wanted us to look and we could follow her light to the next star or constellation.
Decades later I woke on my cot in the middle of the night. I was at the Upper Tanner on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon. New moon. Deep sand. It was so hot, I lay naked on my sleeping bag. I couldn’t sleep, watched the Milky Way, and saw Pleiades rising.
under this one sky
a circle magnificent
above or below
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dVerse prompt to write a haibun of an experience in the natural world that influenced your life. Going through the Grand Canyon on a rafting trip grounded my life to the power of nature (God).
Voice was muffled
nose covered
only your eyes
perched on the edge
of a mask
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dVerse prompt on eyes
pigeon walks under tire
all those radiant feathers
will not fly again
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dVerse prompt to write a jisei (death poem) I knew the day my daughter ran over a pigeon it would someday become a poem.
November pulls the daylight shorter
crisp long shadows
a cool moon
hallways of justice écho
will there be unfaithful electors
in this month of political aspiration
migrating birds begin their journey
when there is snow on the ground
they will come to the feeder
Today the hawk came
perched on the fence
I do not want to witness
hawk swooping
to squirrel or bird
or my small dog
the hawk
ready
with talons
and hunger
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dVerse prompt on November combined with prompt on witnessing
Election Day brings happiness
when your favorite candidate wins
you watch the results roll in
glued to the tube or your cellphone screen
too late to rally or sway a voter
polls are closed and the counting started
my vote one in the millions
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dVerse prompt on a quadrille of happiness- today is Election Day. I have no idea who will win.
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