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Ten Thousand Haiku

27 years of 17-syllable days

Tag Archives: feathers

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28 November 2020Calvin Olsenconstruction, construction paper, COVID-19, dad, feathers, gratitude, haiku, opening doors, pandemic, paper, parenting, poem, Poetry, social distancing, turkey Leave a comment

Construction paper
Turkey: feathers grateful for
Dad, Opening doors?

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28 November 2020Calvin Olsenbranches, bushes, COVID-19, dead, evergreen, feathers, haiku, kid, language, pandemic, parenting, poem, Poetry, social distancing, yank Leave a comment

Kid yanks a branch off
A dead evergreen bush, says,
“Dad, it’s a feather!”

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27 August 2019Calvin Olsenbirds, color, contour feathers, curve, feathers, green, haiku, hovering, hummingbird, love, moment, nature, poem, Poetry, quick, sheen, veer Leave a comment

Hummingbird hovers,
Veers—a curved sheen moves across
Green contour feathers

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6 November 2018Calvin Olsenbalance, birds, fall, feathers, haiku, hopping, leaf, leaves, nature, poem, Poetry, red, slight, sparse, tail, tree, Trees, two Leave a comment

Two leaf-colored birds
(Slight red) hop up a sparse tree
Tail-feather balance

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5 February 2017Calvin Olsenbirds, black, cloth, Cold, crows, cut, cutting, dead, death, feathers, flying, haiku, poem, Poetry, Sun, Trees, two, Wind, Winter Leave a comment

Cold wind cuts through cloth
Two crows fly into the sun
Black feathers, dead trees

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20 November 2016Calvin Olsencatching, Church, earring, earrings, eight, feathers, haiku, lamp, Light, lighting, metal, one, overhead, poem, Poetry, rigid Leave a comment

Eight overhead lamps
One metal feather earring
Rigid, catches light

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15 November 2016Calvin Olsenbirds, colors, death, decomposing, decomposition, feathers, gray, haiku, House, poem, Poetry, roof, shingles, uninterrupted Leave a comment

Roof-colored feathers
Decomposing, gray shingles
Uninterrupted

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27 January 2014Calvin Olsenclothes, coat, Cold, feathers, Winter Leave a comment

Winter coat unzipped
Down liner reinflating
Feather on my back

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22 July 2013Calvin Olsenbird, feathers, green, keys, noise Leave a comment

Bird afraid of keys
Puffing up her green feathers
Spinning ball of noise

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