big blue

Etheree form: unrhymed without meter, one stanza of 10 lines, graduating from 1 to 10 syllables (Laura adds lines 11 & 12 with just 2 syllables each to give shape of Christmas tree). Linking to dverse poets

see
a spruce
in backyard
of childhood home
reaches for the clouds
shelter for nesting birds
hide-away for brown squirrels
branches thick and full to tree top
rises as blue neighborhood landmark
until it plays the part of lightning rod
and falls
blackened

squirrel-ly

 

rodent mechanics

stash acorns inside engine

’til fall drives away

 

 

leafless not lifeless

CDHK prompt from Jane Reichhold’s “Dictionary of Haiku”:  leafless trees

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photo by lynn

 

 

ghostly silhouettes

naked exposure to wind

squirrels find hollow

animation

 

seek frozen acorns
powdery puff of tail fluff
squirrels dig in snow