September haiku, day by day, Moments Captured

September Sightings

 

 Spotting mule doe

  her fawn on the  knoll,  wide eyed,

---lifting gaze, move on.

 

Looking up, see three deer

The buck, doe and fawn passing

by – caught in a glimpse! 

 

Blue black wrens whirr

In a flock – then rise

---    To the wide blue sky.

 

A lizard slithers

      --across shadows of sunlight –

On my morning porch.

 

A lizard slithers,

Pauses; should it leap over the edge?

--Yes! “Courage” in  skin.

 

Dawn’s light pink brush strokes

Warblers celebrate in song

---Joy in the morning!

 

After yoga praising the sun, 

A scrub jay lands  on my porch –

-- welcome guest! 

 

I  take a yoga

warrior position --- greeting

the morning sunrise.

 

Found in cleaning sorrel,

a beautiful snail

--now, on my doorstep.

 

 An Arabian mare,

whinneys to the horses,

Calling to each other.

 

 

Half-moon outside,

My bedroom window –

--keeping watch!

 

Bedtime spiders spin

the Brown Recluse on my wall,

--first night at Dorland!

 

Found!  A hummingbird

Nest in the greenhouse, empty

--On a cactus stem.

 

Each morning, a wren

Climbs the screen, its small beak

--Pecking, and searching.

 

Quail bobbing along

Cross over the mesa top

 In syncopation,- a parade

 

A bobcat track

On the knoll this morning

---Before yoga.

 

A frog appears

On my doorstep three nights

--Is he my Prince?

 

The yellow lantana

Attracts my first butterfly,

---A yellow one.

 

Yellow bugle blooms,

Desert tobacco’s  leaves,

--coloring the sand.

 

California oak acorns-

first thought them, snails,

dark mahogany nuggets.