january day

single gunshot pierces cold air
male pheasant flashes rusty breast

pick random crumbs off floor
remember how to spell vacuum

sugar cookie sleigh ride’s last tea bag
weak flavored cup tastes lukewarm

blizzard stops work, traffic, schools
livestock stamp, huddle, steam

gather groceries, essentials, clothing
hope to travel to warmer climes

mundane asymmetry of cabin fever

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A list/catalogue poem of 11 lines, while sipping Celestial Season’s.

seasoned habitat

A “fusion” haiku for Carpe Diem Haiku Kai‘s Crossroads Challenge…

 

a strange flower
for birds and butterflies
the autumn sky

© Basho

the pheasant cries
as if it just noticed
the mountain

© Issa

 

autumn on mountain

butterflies and flowers gone

pheasant’s golden cry

 

© lynn

 

 

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pixabay free image

autumn bounty

 

harvest harmonized

pheasant struts from ripe cornfield

deer leaps pumpkin patch

culmination of seasons

color life deep rich orange

 

 

photo by lynn

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


My tanka response to Ramblings of a Writer’s prompt: seasons, harmonized.

 

pheasant pleasantries

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“haiga” for Carpe Diem Haiku Kai