Category: fauna

What do you see # 39 — Vermin

Voraciously consuming as much and as quickly as I can. Everything is fair game for my appetite. Regrets? I don’t know the meaning of the word. Me me me; I’m the center of attention, Instinctively and incorrigibly driven to dominate. Never going to stop. One of us will fall. Humans or Earth. Sadje is the…

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#Haikai Challenge 147: smoldering [hot] (moyuru) — The sound of heat

    Ditches dry, frogs hide; heat sings as cicadas wake – wind sighs through willows.     This is a second offering for the prompt, based on another happening this week. Frank J. Tassone is the host of Haikai Challenge.  Frank says: This week, write the haikai poem of your choice (haiku, senryu, haibun,…

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#Haikai Challenge #146: Buck Moon

Moon’s churned cream glows bright while fireflies and rabbits play; thunder’s promise grows. Grazing bucks nibble clover’s sweet dew as velvet blossoms. Frank J. Tassone is the host of Haikai Challenge.  Frank says: The July full moon, the Buck Moon: The next full Moon will occur on Sunday, July 5, 2020, at 12:44AM ET, and is…

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#FFFC 72 — A prison first

She walked along the echoing hallways from end to end from the time she woke up and until the time she laid down on her pallet in the great room of the hall. In wintertime the granite floor tiles became blocks of ice. In summertime, she laid her cheeks on their cool surface as relief…

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What do you see # 34 — Mother Bear

Mother Bear wandered these woods for a good hundred years. Her cubs were many and had populated the region, valleys and mountains, and beyond. Mother Bear was tired. It was time for her to rest. One day in early fall, she fell asleep under a majestic beech tree surrounded by oak and did not wake…

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