saltwater croc waits
a bird picking its teeth clean –
associate love
Category: exercise
Sonorous
a monk chants the psalm
sonorous from temple’s drum —
cherry blossoms fall
Perhaps
perhaps an earthquake —
a butterfly tastes the wind
jellyfish abide
Reinvigorate
Jumping spider down
yearns to reinvigorate
a rain drop reflects
Stock
stock grazing grassland
cow pats baking, sun blazing
dung beetle rolls ball
Synthesis
toxic milkweed leaf
a caterpillar feeding —
synthesis unfolds
Style
style of the peacock
a child runs to feed beauty
a bunch of black grapes
Flinch
no flinch from rhino
oxpecker drops on its back
the guard has alighted.
Rein
a wild horse hungry
prickly pear cactus beyond –
the rein of winter
Arbitrary
arbitrary bees
brushing pollen from crocus
delightful saffron
Elude
stick insects elude
the army of hungry frogs
camouflaging moon
Yearn
Clothes moths yearn for silk
eating from a favourite dress,
eggs about to hatch
Abject
cool autumn evening
bald eagle seizes the smolt
abject, the osprey
Pummel
two brown bears pummel
vying for powerful mate –
salmon slip upstream
Grumpy
breakfast, grumpy mood
after a night without sleep
August sun rising
Spider
fangs of a spider
ready to strike with venom
– an entangled fly
Charm
Charm defeated me
shut off tap of syllables –
staring at the moon
Mischievous
mischievous raven
tickles tail of dozing cat –
summer sun smiles
Hum
moonlight hum, giraffes
resting together at ease –
lioness hungry
Elm
elm bark beetle bores
into trunk of mighty tree
chewing vital sap
From Bath to Cork with baby Grace 