dailyhaikuprompt

in the forest glade
this summer –
flocks of biting flies

#DailyHaikuPrompt | glade
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sand castle –
a democracy
at low tide

#DailyHaikuPrompt | sand castle
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water beads grow
on the glass –
cold draft

#DailyHaikuPrompt | cold draft
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insight
a cloud bank parts
for the sun

#DailyHaikuPrompt | blue sky
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late winter dusk –
the last flight of geese
settles on Canoe Creek

#DailyHaikuPrompt | flying geese
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a pasture gate moves
gently in the wind –
the sound of geese overhead

#DailyHaikuPrompt | flying geese
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fresh snow --
a junco writes her story
in cuneiform

#DailyHaikuPrompt | fresh
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humidity on the rise –
a few black flies stuck
in the fresh paint

#DailyHaikuPrompt | paint
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evening mosquitoes –
the whine of a
Razr on the road

#DailyHaikuPrompt | pest
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the last brook riffles
before the lake —
my mother’s remaining life

#DailyHaikuPrompt | waterfall
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weasel
in the chicken coop –
a crack in everything

#DailyHaikuPrompt | weasel
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the scent of early hay –
my mind occupied
by bobolinks

#DailyHaikuPrompt | cut grass
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#Rural

a teetering season –
next catkins and blackbirds
tumble into the wetlands

#DailyHaikuPrompt | catkins
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sweater weather –
skeins of geese ply
the March sky

#DailyHaikuPrompt | geese
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in the backwater –
upturned buckets
filled with ice fishermen

#DailyHaikuPrompt | salmon (usually walleye)
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blizzard warning –
the neighbor’s tractor trades
a plow for a plow

#DailyHaikuPrompt | plow
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potatoes
grow slowly underground –
September sunrise

#DailyHaikuPrompt | potato
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barbed wire
enveloped by grapevines –
years pass

#DailyHaikuPrompt | grapes
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waning moon –
a humid night thickened
with crickets

#DailyHaikuPrompt | crickets
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gust front –
the oaks
become ghosts

#DailyHaikuPrompt | leaves
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#WhiteOak
#trees

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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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digging a grave
for another fawn –
pastoral duties

#DailyHaikuPrompt | pastoral
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from the twilight
the slow swiff of a broom –
summer day

#DailyHaikuPrompt | long day
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coyote tracks
in the mud –
night visitors

#DailyHaikuPrompt | tracks
#SmallPoems