sunrise
waiting for a cormorant
to surface
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Bob Lucky
Bob Lucky is the author of Careful Not to Startle the Yaks (Cyberwit, 2025) My Wife & Other Adventures (Red Moon Press, 2024), My Theology: Not Always True But Always Truth (Cyberwit, 2019), Conversation Starters in a Language No One Speaks (SurVision Books, 2018), a winner of the James Tate Poetry Prize 2018, and Ethiopian Time (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2014). He lives in Portugal.
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__ Cormorant: so well seen Bob_ ! Here, my humble echo. _m
spreads its wings
to dry this morning's hunt
sea bird's sun
Thank you for the kind words and the haiku.
What a beautiful, powerful, ‘simple’ poem of quietude and hope
Thank you, Bruce.
There's a Norwegian myth that people who die at sea can visit their former homes as cormorants.
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long rainy season
a tree full of cormorants
fills my heart
Alan Summers
AHS Summer Solstice Haiku String 2018 change
Nice haiku, Alan. I read every poem in every issue, but I never seem to get around to responding, etc. I'm going to try to be better!
Cheers!
This was along the River Avon in the Bradford-on-Avon (Wiltshire) area. I'd never seen a whole tree filled with cormorants before, or since!
I've seen the Christmas tree (actual tree) at the City of Bath shopping centre full of birds and looking and sounding like Christmas ornaments, but much smaller birds. :-)
warm regards,
Alan
diving grebe
the glint in the water
Nice haiku. Thank you.