autumn in the air
a flit-dip
of chickadees
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Marianne Paul
Marianne Paul is a Canadian poet and writer. Her book, Body Weight, A Collection of Haiku and Art, placed first in the Haiku Canada Marianne Bluger Award for chapbooks. Marianne is also honoured to have won the Jane Reichhold Memorial Haiga Competition, the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Haiku Festival, and Sonic Boom’s VISPO Contest for visual poems. Her latest book is the drift from here to where, a collection of haiga. Marianne’s happy obsessions include book arts and bookbinding, easy kayaking, shade gardening, and back porch birdwatching. She has started a small press, paper heron books, that features one of a kind hand-crafted chapbooks. View all posts by Marianne Paul
I love this haiku! My exact experience also – ??????
A flit-dip! I love this! It perfectly captures the visual fun of watching them!
I feel the balminess of autumn, especially in the first half, and a nip of cold and the sound of feathers in the second half.
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autumn in the air
a flit-dip
of chickadees
—MARIANNE PAUL
Ah, chickadees, close cousins to the British titmice family!
Great haiku!!! Love ones about birds.
I love "a flit-dip of chickadees"!
We have blue tits nesting in an extra sparrow box we had fitted externally. There are so many under the roof nest areas we conserved, there's room for all!
I love all of them, including spotting large groups of these "cousins"!
banditry of titmice
the longtails fleeting
through the air
Alan Summers
“banditry” is a collective noun for long-tailed titmice
Scientific name: Aegithalos caudatus
autumn bite
the slowness of dusk