Florida Haiku and Short Verse

Monday Nature Verse - La Mar & Cup of Tea Florida Nature Haiku-Senryu by Kevin Songer ... rumbling storm vibrates oceanfront window panes and my cup of tea … 

  Florida nature poetry for Wednesday, Monarch Butterfly’s migratory flight across the gulf. Monarch butterfly feeds in preparation for it's winter migratory flight across the ... one last nectar sip as kaleidoscope gathers over the shoreline nature's refinement eight hundred miles cross the gulf waves swallow many the strongest survive maybe luckiest rest in oyamel fir trees … #monarch #butterfly #arttherapy #pensacolaart #pensacola #biglagoonstatepark #floridastateparks #naturepoetry #haiku #poetry #floridanature #nature

Florida Wildflower Haiku (Senryu), Marsh Rose Gentian, Sabatia dodecandra Florida Wildflower Haiku, Marsh Rose Gentian, Sabatia dodecandra by Kevin Songer …  limestone rock croppings bees butterflies skipper art rose gentian drawn … Tarkiln Bayou State Park, Marsh Rose Gentian, Sabatia dodecandra by Kevin Songer Rose gentian has about a dozen different species found throughout Florida (Sabatia spp.).  Tarkiln Bayou State Park, Marsh Rose Gentian, Sabatia dodecandra by Kevin Songer Rose gentian’s flowers are rich in purple and pink hues. When in full summer bloom, Sabatia can fill a roadside drainage swale with incredible swaths of pink and purple.  Tarkiln Bayou State Park, Marsh Rose Gentian, Sabatia dodecandra by Kevin Songer Some accounts may exist where early settlers dried Sabatia root and then brewed a chicory-like coffee with the plant parts. This may be a historical carry over from traditions in Europe where the same...

Florida Nature Poetry - Senryu for Friday! Snowy Egrets & Sanibel Florida Poetry, Haiku - Senryu, Sanibel & Snowy Egrets by Kevin Songer  ... sanibel traffic hit the causeway early for best picnic table ...

Florida Nature Haiku for Friday morning, Shiny blueberry, Vaccinium myrsinites Florida Haiku, Shiny blueberry, Vaccinium myrsinites by Kevin Songer ... I always wondered bout shiny blueberry’s taste, rabbit got there first ... Shiny blueberry is a diminutive member of the blueberry family offering winter seasonal beauty with its namesake bright and shiny red and green leaves. During the growing season shiny blueberry is usually obscured by taller growing plants. Shiny blueberry produces large amounts of fruits sought after by small mammals, birds and other foragers. I see shiny blueberry growing along most trails hiked.

gulf seashore haiku Florida haiku, Gulf seashore by Kevin Songer... ... gulf's cool waters crash drowning out all other sounds but for seagull's cry ...

Florida Nature Senryu for Monday, Sand Gnats and Bunche Beach, Bunche Beach Flats at Sunset, Kevin Songer ... gonna go fishing bunche beach mullet schools sand gnats chase us home ...

Perdido Key Nature Poetry, Haiku by Kevin Songer ... fresh new paths from billion year old sands changes permanence ... Perdido Key ku

Florida Wildflower Poetry, False Foxglove Senryu, Agalinis purpurea Florida Wildflower Haiku - Senryu Short Verse Art, False Foxglove by Kevin Songer … false foxglove marsh ruby throated hummingbird charm break sonic sound barrier … False foxglove's mauve blooms in mass covering a wet field are truly a spectacular sight in color and texture.   False foxglove (Agalinis spp.) can be seen growing along roadsides, in cleared or disturbed lots and pastures or fields.  The plant prefers slightly damp, sandy soils.  As with other trumpet shaped flowers, False foxglove’s blooms are sought out by hummingbirds.  Did you know a group of hummingbirds is called a 'charm'.  Charming!

Florida native plant short verse for Wednesday. Sea oats, Uniola paniculata Florida Nature Haiku, Sea Oats, Kevin Songer … mice, birds and bunnies tasty seeds eat, summer grub when no chips are around … Sea oats are a protected grass found growing along the Gulf and Atlantic seashores, primarily across the sand dunes. Sea oats provide important forage for beach mice and shorebirds as well as shelter. Their roots help stabilize dunes, preventing erosion. As a child I always possessed a strong desire to grab a handful of seeds off the plant and I’m not sure if this was because I was always told not to pick them or because it looked like a fun thing to do. Sea oats are some of the only native plants to grow in the harsh salt laden environment, close to water's edge and as such provide important communal and foraging habitat to wildlife.

Weekend Catesby Lily Short Verse Pineland lily, Lilium catesbaei, Kevin Songer ... flames in the flatwoods fire in the wiregrass wet soil quenches not ... Damp soil pine flatwoods are such a special place and this is where I usually see Catesby lily growing en masse.  Catesby lily flower is one of the largest lily flowers native to North America.  Brilliant hues of orange, yellow and red attract a number of pollinators to the top of stems reaching up above wiregrass below.  Pineland lily is truly an amazing Florida native wildflower.

Sea beans ... prickly liana spiny pods nest lustrous beans, wait for sea pearls' fall ... Gray Nickerbean, Caesalpina bonduc, Kevin Songer Florida Nature Artist Rare Miami Blue and Nickerbean Blue butterfly larvae feed heavily of the foliage of Gray Nickerbean whose seed pods are as outrageously beautiful as the lustrous seeds nested inside.  The maritime loving Gray Nickerbean liana aggressively grows into a rambling, impenetrable hedge before flowering and dropping its gray beans onto the seashore.  With the seasons, tides and sargassum flotsam, Gray Nickerbeans travel around the world, carried hence by La Mar.  Sea Beans, also know as Sea Pearls have been used by peoples for jewelry, medicine and artisan wood inlays for millennia. 

Wednesday Night Florida short verse is a blanketflower fantasy. ... midnight beach party gaillardia spins moonbeams for dune critter disco ... Dune Critter Midnight Disco by Kevin Gaillardia pulchella & Anole by Kevin

Climbing aster, Symphyotrichum spp. ... lilac stars climb wreathed through cypress, bag of yarn not twisted more ... Climbing aster can be reliably found in full lush bloom, even in the driest and hottest of summer droughts.  This shrubby vine produces masses amounts of highly fragrant luminous purple and mauve flowers. Once the vines start weaving through trees they form an almost impenetrable barrier.  When no other summer drought flowers can be found, climbing aster is there to feed hungry monarch butterflies.

Toadflax and sorrel, Linaria canadensis and Rumex spp. ... toad flax and sour weed roadside kaleidoscope mower comes too soon ...

... fruit frog eyelash high turkey leg vines wrap, purple green earth trip trap ...