Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts

19 December 2009

Beach haiku

Today we walked on the beach on a very low tide and watched the sanderlings and willets scurry along as the small waves met the shore at Miramar. Out beyond Pillar Point is where the huge waves of the renowned Mavericks surf spot build, but the waves on this day were small and peaceful. I waxed poetic in the sand.

little waves ruffling to shore
on a low low tide
small shorebirds jitterbugging




Here is a small bird jitterbugging near the ruffling waves: