Haiku (strict 5,7,5 form)
Green gold in sunlight
Locust softly shimmering
Whispers to the wind
Winter cherry trees
Melted into fallen logs
Woods lost fragile blooms
Walnuts on the ridge
Felled by winter's snow and wind
Shelter timid deer
Ancient apple tree
With rotted hollow center
New shoots bear blossoms
The environment
A fragile unwanted child
Claims its mastery
Is it the home fires
A Brazilian cardinal
Appears at feeder
Warm weather welcomes
Rainforest fire driven bird
To northern mountains
Orbital island
Singular environment
Interconnected
Road kill, raven's feast
Pays for gasoline's high price
A different way
A botanist reads
Bible in God's Creation
All life is sacred
We breathe freely in
Waste gas from distant forests
That breathe our waste gas
Flowers choke flowers
How could they do such murder
When each has its place
Green world divided
Roots now grow haphazardly
Due to carelessness
Ancient touring bike
Black with upright handlebars
Is old man's transport
Blighted berries hang
Promises that might have been
Darkened clusters now
Blackberries' sweetness
Anticipated harvest
Picked among the thorns
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