Thursday, 4 September 2025

Ten Haiku Poems by Lara Dolphin

 






Ten Haiku


leatherback turtles

since the time of dinosaurs

have crawled toward the sea


nocturnal hedgehog

I see you during the day

let me get you help


shrill carder queen bees

emerge from hibernation

to build a grass nest


tiny red squirrels

in the woods of Anglesey

feast on hazelnuts


in Snowdonia

a small pine marten nestles

deep in a tree hole


in Auln Valley

a high brown fritillary

spots a violet


on Skomer Island

near the ocean at Wick’s Cliffs 

puffins take the plunge


two small tortoiseshells

feast on purple buddleia

then they flit away


auroch-like tauros

rewild ancient highlands

with their mighty hooves


eurasian otters

at the coast feed in the sea

then bathe in a stream








Lara Dolphin - A descendant of immigrants, Lara Dolphin lives with her family among the Allegheny Mountains of Central Pennsylvania on the ancestral land of the Susquehannock/Iroquois people. She has written three chapbooks In Search Of The Wondrous WholeChronicle Of Lost Moments, and At Last a Valley. She, like countless others, hopes for a world filled with greater peace.



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