Greater Roadrunner Up A Tree — Image by kenne
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Greater Roadrunner Up A Tree 5 comments
Greater Roadrunner #2 1 comment
Greater Roadrunner — Image by kenne
It’s true, I often see you running about,
With a limp lizard’s tail hanging from your mouth,
Some have witnessed your familiar antics,
taunting rattlesnakes, eagles, and hairy arachnids.
But my favorite three things have to be,
Your curiosity each time you encounter me,
And how you turn your back to the sun for its heat
(like a tiny matador, feathers erect and sleek).
Finally, I think I must surely admit
That trickster track—your zygodactyl footprint!
How do I know which way you are going?
With two toes facing forward and the back two, back-going.
It doesn’t matter much to me you will see
I just look for the “X” in the sand to guide me.
On the trail of a friend, a cuckoo I know
the Greater Roadrunner, always running, on the go.
— from Roadrunner by Michelle Hedgecock
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Greater Roadrunner — Image by kenne
A cuckoo bird that lives for speed,
With your shaggy crest, what a site indeed.
Streaked feathers break up your silhouette.
And your unusual track, not your typical set.
A blue and orange patch behind your eyes,
You prefer to chase prey, instead of fly.
Your expressive long tail flips here and there…
Quail chicks and k-rats best beware.
— from Roadrunner by Michelle Hedgecock
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Greater Roadrunner — Listen! 1 comment
Greater Roadrunner Photo-Artistry by kenne
Listen!
The gravel verge bears a walker:
I hear chewing of shredded wheat.
Listen!
Birds call from dawn to sundown:
tedious mourning dove blues,
cactus wren’s grinding starter,
darting quail high notes: Uh-huh-Uh huh,
Hey-you! alert – the thrasher arrives.
Listen!
Our homes hum tones tiny to tremendous;
stretched and still in darkness,
I seek their source, finding some
in the pestling of brain, bones, molars.
Listen!
Attending too, to unfulfilled utterances:
hesitations, head dips, hand flutters,
the staccato of unsettled eyes and breath:
these voiceless notes of soul speak
of love or loss or the deep water strokes
of living without answers.
Listen!
Listen! poem (c)2020 Deborah Chappa
(Used by Permission)
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Greater Roadrunner In Mesquite Tree Leave a comment
Greater Roadrunner In Mesquite Tree — Image by kenne
Roadrunners don’t spend much time in trees. However, this guy was in a mesquite tree where he could more easily be seen and heard by a female a few hundred feet away — it worked.
— kenne
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What Is He Thinking? 1 comment
Greater Roadrunner Photo-Artistry by kenne
What is he thinking
bobbing his tail
up and down
our curiosity shared
not knowing what
the other is thinking.
Conveying a cool air
with an eye on me
only a cocky tease
when his attention
is not me, but
a nearby lizard —
What was I thinking?
— kenne
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Greater Roadrunner — Grunge Art Leave a comment
Greater Roadrunner — Grunge Art by kenne
He is a joker
Not a singer, he just clicks
To get attention.
— kenne
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Greater Roadrunner Stalking A Tree Lizard In A Mesquite Tree — Image by kenne
Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.
— Robert M. Pirsig
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Big Bird In The Olive Tree Leave a comment
Greater Roadrunner In Patio Olive Tree — Photo-Artistry Image by kenne
“A medium of communication is not merely a passive conduit for the transmission of information
but rather an active force in creating new social patterns and new perceptual realities.”
— Leonard Shlain
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One On The Nest, . . . 2 comments
One On the Nest, Another Helping to Build it. Images by kenne
Protected
by the cholla cactus
the yellow-eyed
big bird
sits
on the nest
while her mate
continues
to gather twigs
no insult to his
male hood.
— kenne
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Big Bird On The Patio Wall Leave a comment
Greater Roadrunner — Digital Art by kenne
Here he comes again
Bird on the patio wall
Stalking a lizard.
— kenne
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Greater Roadrunner Sitting On Nest 3 comments
Greater Roadrunner Sitting On Nest In A Cholla Cacti — Image by kenne
A capitalist society requires a culture based on images.
It needs to furnish vast amounts of entertainment in order to
stimulate buying and anesthetize the injuries of class, race, and sex.”
— from “On Photography” by Susan Sontag
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Greater Roadrunner — Big Guy On The Ground 1 comment
Greater Roadrunner — Image by kenne
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Greater Roadrunner On A Cold Morning 3 comments
Greater Roadrunner Sunning on a Cold Morning in Sabino Canyon — Image by kenne
I do not know if the desert can be loved,
but it is in the desert that my treasure lies hidden.
— Paulo Coelho
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Greater Roadrunner On A Southwest Day 2 comments
Greater Roadrunner On A Southwest Day — Image by kenne
I watch him as he ponders my presence,
only a temporary distraction from
the lizard now locked in step
blinding into the tree bark
disposing of intricate patterns.
Soon the runner disappears
into some unknown world,
no known direction, dissolving
into the brink, yet native lands.
— kenne
