Posted in 13 Moons, Holidays, Life, Poetry, Practice, Seasons, Spirituality, Wake Up, tagged 5lines, endings, gogyohka, new beginnings, New Moon, Solstice Fire, Yule fire on December 21, 2014| Leave a Comment »
Winter Solstice Fire, Droid Shots, Minneapolis, Minnesota, December 2014, photos © 2014 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
Dark December,
the longest night—
rest peacefully, knowing
none of the prophets
are saints.
-posted on red Ravine at the New Moon on Winter Solstice,
Sunday, December 21st, 2014
-related to post: haiku 4 (one-a-day) Meets renga 52
Posted in Animals & Critters, Haiku, Nature, Poetry, Practice, Seasons, Secrets, Silence, Things That Fly, tagged 5lines, Charles Anderson, dragonflies, dragonfly migration, gogyohka, Migratory Dragonfly Partnership, nature as muse, prehistoric insects, summer, the magic of mystery, The Nature Conservancy, Wandering Glider on August 8, 2014| 1 Comment »
Wandering Glider, Droid Shots, Minneapolis, Minnesota, July 2014, photos © 2014 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
wandering glider
in purple rain–
silent muse
migrating thousands of miles
to sit still in my garden
Dragonflies have existed for over 300 million years. According to the Migratory Dragonfly Partnership, about 16 of the 326 dragonfly species in North America are regular migrants, some traveling hundreds to thousands of miles each year. The major migratory species in North America are: common green darner (Anax junius), wandering glider (Pantala flavescens), spot-winged glider (Pantala hymenaea), black saddlebags (Tramea lacerata), and variegated meadowhawk (Sympetrum corruptum). Learn more about the mystery of dragonfly migration at The Nature Conservancy piece, Dragonfly Migration: A Mystery Citizen Scientists Can Help Solve, and at Dragonflies That Fly Across Oceans, a TED talk by biologist Charles Anderson.
-posted on red Ravine, Friday, August 8th, 2014
Posted in Laughing, Poetry, Practice, Seasons, Weather, tagged 5lines, cabin fever, Groundhog Day, haiga, icicles, micropoetry, midwinter blues, Punxsutawney Phil, winter in Minnesota on February 2, 2014| 5 Comments »
icicles. 33/365, Droid 365 Squared, Minneapolis, Minnesota, February 2014, photos © 2014 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
Groundhog, woodchuck, whistle pig—
six more weeks of winter?
The frozen tundra
in my backyard
may cause my mind to splinter.
-posted on red Ravine, Sunday, February 2nd, 2014
-related to: Vote For Punxsutawney Phil!
Posted in Animals & Critters, Art, Body, Bones, Poetry, Practice, Things That Fly, Wake Up, tagged 5lines, Dragonfly secrets, dragonfly wings, gogyohka, haiga, Happy New Year!, hopes for the New Year, keepers of the light, New Moon on January 1, 2014| 5 Comments »
Heartbeat Of A Dragonfly, Droid Shots, Minneapolis, Minnesota, January 2014, photos © 2014 by QuoinMonkey. All rights reserved.
New Moon, New Year—
I make no promises.
Only hope for a year filled with light,
soft shadows off the heartbeat
of a dragonfly.
-posted on red Ravine, Wednesday, January 1st, 2014
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