Prickle on parade.
Suddenly frightened, fluffs quills.
Porcupines ready.
Squawking, gawking fun.
Flamboyant cacophony,
flamingos’ party.
Tower strolls slowly
searching for acacia trees.
Giraffes’ favorite treat.
Bloat walks to water,
waddles with heavy slow steps.
Hippos seek cool bath.
Troop hops high and long.
Daily constitutional,
kangaroos’ amble.
Black and white striped suits
mimic Armani’s men’s wear.
Zebras’ dazzle style.
Alfred Hitchcock’s muse,
murder gathers on roof tops.
Crows screech, caw loudly.
Written for dVerse, the virtual pub for poets around the globe. Today, Bjorn is hosting Open Link Night from Sweden. OLN means we are not confined to a particular form of poem, or rhythm, or rhyme scheme. Image created on Bing Create.
FYI: I’ve used the group names of animals here: a group of porcupines is a prickle; a group of flamingos is a flamboyant; a group of giraffes is a tower; a group of hippos is a bloat; a group of kanagaroos is a troop; a group of zebras is a dazzle; and a group of crows is a murder.
lillian the home poet 
Excellent use of animal group names in your poem today! Good creativity!
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I love your haiku collection, Lillian! The animals worked perfectly.
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I enjoyed this series of Haiku’s
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Those collective nouns are so much fun…. this sounds like quite a zoo.
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I love collective nouns! Such a fun poem. I think “a bloat of hippos” is my favourite 🙂
Other favourites that come to mind are “a charm of butterflies”, “a glaring of cats” and “a suspicion of ravens.”
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OH Lillian!!!! I love your haiku chain. Haiku has been my go-to favorite form since 2009 and I began posting poems. This is just spectacular.
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so cool, dear Lillian. And so glad about the FYI; I wondered about the italicized words, a murder as the collective noun for crows was the only one I knew. Thanks, I hope I can remember the others for next time.
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This is gorgeously rendered, Lil! I especially admire; “Tower strolls slowly searching for acacia trees. Giraffes’ favorite treat..” ❤️❤️
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