“COLD SNAP” HAIKU
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Pity poor peepers,
Stiff cloacas do not help!
When bodies are too.
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Snow blowers and plows
Get one last fling before Spring..
.Or rather–in it!
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Snow and rain the same,
Draining experiences…
Both can change your plans!
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–Jonathan Caswell
RUSHING ‘ROUND THE CORNER
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Hear that wind just shrieking
On a sunny day…
Rushing ’round my end apartment,
Is a storm on its way?
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‘Though its bright and sunny
Saturday afternoon…
I heard these same shrieks at night
With or without the moon!
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We’re on an outside corner,
A tree wind tunnel nearby…
Can’t say I’m always comfortable
When those dead leaves fly!
–Jonathan caswell
TRACKS IN THE SNOW
Watching the melting snow,
I see foot prints onward go…
It looks like deer
But see here,
Those are webbed feet impressions, you know!
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Momma goose, or maybe the gander,
Took time in the day to wander…
Away from the pond
To farther beyond,
Searching for grass by meander?
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The tracks went only one way
But the gate was open all day…
Maybe Momma decided
She was sore-sided
And returned another way!
–Jonathan Caswell
THE LO-O-O-O-O-ONE GREAT HERON!
On this darkening November day,
A Great Blue Heron assayed…
To fly overhead
A young driver said,
Across his lane of a rain-soaked highway.
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He thought the bird would have flown
South before snow fall had grown…
His migratory
Knowledge of the story
Was rather poorly known!
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Perhaps, like other types
Of migratory birds, he’d no gripes…
With staying around
And fish to be found,
So much for stereotypes.
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Didn’t know if he’d see it again,
His late-staying feathered friend…
So he wished him a living
The day before Thanksgiving,
Whatever the future would portend.
–Jonathan Caswell
By the Mighty Mumford 