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Reconnecting With My 27 Backyard Tree Species: Haiku

ByDavid Kuhns July 3, 2019August 20, 2019

Hi, my deep-rooted/
woods friends. I’m sad I’ve not been/
near. I’ll tread barefoot. 27 different tree species in my backyard -- I need to connect

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Deep Woods Bath: ImproVerse Haiku
ByDavid Kuhns July 4, 2019August 20, 2019

I emersed me in/ woods, hoping to stop dying./ I must bathe more oft.

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Nature Haibun -- Prose + Haiku

Finding the Last Late Season Blueberries: Haibun
ByDavid Kuhns July 28, 2019August 10, 2019

Picking Redux: The Last of the Late Season Blueberries It was, they said, too late in the season to find even the last of the late season blueberries. For weeks, pickers and birds had scoured the field for the small, blue bursts of anti-oxidants and health and taste. OH! The taste! Our house chef was…

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Fresh Seeds: What A Concept!
ByDavid Kuhns April 12, 2018

Being the frugal guy I am, if I don’t use seeds one year, I try them the next. Not that there is anything wrong with that, because seeds usually germinate for several years (although the germination rate goes down the longer you keep them in storage). My wife has A LOT of old seeds, so…

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Albino Grackle – What Is It!?!
ByDavid Kuhns July 2, 2016April 19, 2018

A couple of years ago (July 2016) my dad said he thought he’d seen a white bird feeding with a bunch of dark (purple) grackles at a neighbor’s lake-side bird feeder (normally reserved for geese and ducks). Sure enough, when I went out to see, I was able to video this rare albino grackle! One…

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Setting Of October’s Super Moon: Haiku
ByDavid Kuhns October 14, 2019October 16, 2019

I’m cross-posting these poems in my CyranoWriter.com creative writing blog.

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Nature's Guys Thinking and Pondering

Take Time To Ground Create: Free Verse
ByDavid Kuhns June 6, 2019August 29, 2019

I used to take time to ground, to create, to think, to revel in nature. It wasn’t until I taught others how and why to do it that I realized: I’d stopped. Creativity is life, and I’d let myself die. No more.

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