hummingbird haiku

By Elizabeth Enslin on April 4, 2009

: I wasn’t fast enough to catch them but they were everywhere. Really. (Superstition Mountains, Arizona, February 2009)

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hummingbird haiku

gutsy grape gorget
tiny feathers like chain mail –
nectar defender

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Day 4: NaPoWriMo (choose the name of a paint color and free write) and Poetic Asides (animals).

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Sweet Talking Guy..
April 4, 2009 at 4:50 pm | Permalink | Reply

Yeah, cool! The first line’s dead good!!
christine
April 4, 2009 at 9:04 pm | Permalink | Reply

Gutsy Grape.. great color find. An imaginative haiku too, a form that eludes me. Your photos on the blog are gorgeous. Looks like you live in a wonderful environment.

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