OPEN SPACES - Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy
OPEN SPACES - Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy
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<strong>Palos</strong> <strong>Verdes</strong> <strong>Peninsula</strong> <strong>Land</strong> <strong>Conservancy</strong><br />
First Quarter 2001, Page 8<br />
Haiku Corner: The <strong>Peninsula</strong> from Another Perspective<br />
I<br />
by Jorg Raue<br />
t has been two years since the first haiku corner appeared here. Maybe you, the reader, would enjoy a compilation<br />
of all the haiku published here. These haiku were authored by Bill Ailor, R.C. Ayers, Charlene Dolim, Jess Morton,<br />
Barbara Peirce, Catherine Ratner, and Jorg Raue. They were selected from the many haiku submitted.<br />
Please vote for your favorite haiku. The authors of the two haiku receiving the most votes will receive a nature book.<br />
Please phone the PVPLC office, (310) 541-7613, with your selection, just giving your last name. One vote per family,<br />
please.<br />
If you have composed a haiku about any natural aspect of our <strong>Peninsula</strong>, please feel free to submit it for possible<br />
publication in this corner. My email address is: raue@home.com, or mail to the PVPLC Office.<br />
15 No rain yet this fall<br />
But from tree-tops lost in fog<br />
Slow drops are falling<br />
1 a desert is here -<br />
sand and scrub, cottontails hide<br />
in seacoast lookouts<br />
2 and seacliffs crumbling<br />
stand, backs stooped at ocean’s<br />
edge<br />
old men in frayed clothes<br />
3 Down the empty beach<br />
Gray fog hides the foot-marked<br />
sand.<br />
Hissing sounds of surf...<br />
4 endless snow-white foam<br />
muffled thunder, breaking<br />
waves —<br />
after the storm: sun<br />
5 eucalyptus trees —<br />
layers of bark litter ground<br />
stems clean, smooth, like new...<br />
6 evening flicks her tongue<br />
across this shore’s-lip of sand<br />
to caress my ear<br />
7 fluffs of low fog mist<br />
sliding into ocean bay<br />
white frosting on cake<br />
8 High in the palm tree<br />
kestrel feeding noisy young<br />
tireless crows circling...<br />
9 hot summer silence<br />
flock of green parrots crossing<br />
noisy chatter fades<br />
10 kestrel wings flutter<br />
mouse scurries in brush below<br />
kestrel dives quickly<br />
11 largest brightest moon<br />
but once in a century<br />
pale yellow, sinking...<br />
12 little hummingbird<br />
lightly dancing in the air<br />
red flower waiting<br />
13 low tide, Rocky Point —<br />
waves flood giant blackened<br />
rocks<br />
countless mussels huddle<br />
14 murmuring wavelet<br />
bends to a strand of beached<br />
kelp<br />
fingering its beads<br />
<strong>Conservancy</strong> Ramps Up Nursery Operation<br />
O<br />
ver the last twelve months, the <strong>Conservancy</strong> has<br />
substantially increased plant production at its native<br />
plant nursery in San Pedro. Nearly 100,000 plants were<br />
raised, all from local sources, thus insuring the integrity<br />
of the gene pool for <strong>Peninsula</strong>-native plants.<br />
These plants will be used to restore habitat for the<br />
<strong>Palos</strong> <strong>Verdes</strong> Blue Butterfly at the Defense Fuel Supply<br />
Point in San Pedro and for similar work at the Chandler<br />
Preserve.<br />
Additional plants will be raised for a variety of other<br />
restoration projects around the <strong>Peninsula</strong>, including habitat<br />
improvement at the Lunada Canyon preserve and the<br />
Forrestal property (once a management agreement is in<br />
place), revegetation at Ocean Trails, and several smaller<br />
projects.<br />
Our locally-sourced native plants are available to<br />
private individuals as well. For more information, please<br />
contact Steve Heyn at (3109) 547-2363.<br />
16 one pelican glides<br />
wing tips touching the swell’s<br />
skin<br />
apt benediction<br />
17 steady canyon breeze<br />
carries strong scent of fennel<br />
<strong>Peninsula</strong> spring...<br />
18 sun’s glint at noontime<br />
drifting in tidepool riffles<br />
on oceans of stone<br />
19 the pelican fleet<br />
sails by at cliffside level,<br />
brings wishes to join<br />
20 Vicente Light House —<br />
sleek, white, majestic, lonely;<br />
light beaming safety...<br />
21 with rustles of silk<br />
seafoam’s sheer lace slips away<br />
untouched sand laid bare
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