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Missing Wildflowers: Nature Haiku

ByDavid Kuhns July 2, 2019August 21, 2019

See the lawnmower and the long grass? Miss the wildflowers? Folks look at my yard/
and see lots of grass to mow./
They miss wildflowers.

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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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Blackberries. Thorns. Cobbler. I Accept.
ByDavid Kuhns July 2, 2018July 2, 2018

Today my wife and I went out to the lower meadow to pick blackberries with thorns. About 20 minutes later, we made a fresh blackberry cobbler, and I wrote this poem about the experience: It reminds me of the time I visited a rose garden in Freiburg, in the southwest corner of Germany, just south…

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Earth + Us Part 2: Weeding Uncovers Treasures Haiku
ByDavid Kuhns January 5, 2021January 6, 2021

Weeding out the bad/ that shouldn’t be there makes room for the good that should. Backstory: My wife wrote Earth + Us about pulling privet. This is an update. I was motivated to pull out a massive clump of several very old and large privet on my NW Georgia property (privet is an invasive, non-native…

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Planting Rainy Day Perspective Change
ByDavid Kuhns March 19, 2018March 27, 2018

It always strikes me as strange when folks say they can’t work in the rain. I’m learning that people in different parts of the country have very different perspectives on working in the rain. I lived in Seattle for nearly three decades. What happens when you have plans to work in the yard in Seattle…

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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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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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