darby and joan
ducks in pond
swimming around waiting
hugh coming
number 2---3/6/3
from the bank
stands protective watching
wifey swim
number 3---3/6/3
together
loyal to each other
forever
number 4---3/6/3
joan benecke August 15th 2008
Author notes
Hugh has formed a close connection with our ducks we call Darby and Joan, they wait for him to come.They even bring their ducklings to meet him. Each time I go to New Zealand Hugh and I visit our ducks.
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Aww animals know a pure loving spirit and they are drawn to such beauty. You are a true angel.
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Dear AJ, you've talked so much about Darby and Joan and how they're attached to Hugh, Great haiku's.
Love Jen
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This is warm and wonderful dear Joan. All the "ducks" in a row. I can't wait until the day I can personally meet both you and Hugh, darby too. Excellent! I wish you well in the challenge.
Much Love Always ♥
Renee
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Dear Joan,
Love your haiku's and the fact that you and Hugh have named your friendly ducks. I love, too, that they bring their ducklings to meet Hugh (wish the ducklings were in the pic').
Best of Luck in the contest!
Love and Hugs,
Maureen
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For some reason that we don't know Maureen there were no ducklings last October. We suspect rats or dogs could've found the nest and destroyed the eggs, so hopefully Darby and Joan will hatch some more this October. The ducklings from my second visit are in my other Ku entry.This picture was taken last February.
Joan
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Lovely photo and poems to the famous ducks.
Always good to see them around
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Ah I love that...
It was not only the great photo that brought me there!
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Thanks Terry, I have some wonderful pictures of the ponds and ducks with their ducklings that I'll write about with a haiku/senyru
Love Joan
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Dear AJ, I love it when we all go to visit the ducks and watch how they come up to Hugh, they definitely recognize him.And they are such great parents to their ducklings, it's a joy to watch them.
Great haiku's AJ
Love Hine
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See now from the ducks' perspective...you and Hugh are THEIR people, not your ducks...never mind, it seemed funny when I thought of it.
ducks in pond
swimming around waiting
yem hungry!
Sorry, I'm not really evil, I think duckies are cute. I used to have some when I was a kid, they walk how I like to think Hugh does!
Silliness aside, it looks like a wonderful place to have lunch and share sandwiches with the ducks...I wonder if they like Moxie?
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I love your comment Yem and don't you dare eat our ducks! Geez don't let Hugh know you think he waddles like a duck!
He walks fairly well actually except when his gammy leg plays up. It is a wonderful park with 2 ponds in it and a lovely place to walk or sit and even have a picnic.
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Delightful!
Reality to artistry as you detail the tale!
M-C
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Thank you M-C
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Dear Bea-san
excellent
velly descliptive
velly tlue
Well, lately when I've gone to visit our Paradise pair, they haven't been in residence at the pond but I've come across them on the riverbank, on the library lawn and even at the Ruru Lawn cemetery where my twin daughters are buried. Even though they go walkabout (flyabout?) they ALWAYS come back to the Beckenham Park (they were there again yesterday!)
I hope when you come again in October next year that they will have some ducklings to show off to you.
What you have so explicitly written is all quite true:
# They do seem to wait for me as they swim towards me as soon as I go to the edge of the pond.
# When Joan is swimming by herself, Darby stands guard, watching from the bank.
# Paradise ducks mate for life and are never 'unfaithful' to each other.
Good luck in the contest.
Applause, mlove and hugs, XXX Hugh (R.)
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Thankyou hu-san for your great comment. I have told our ducks that I want to see ducklings when Sharon and I come over next year.
Love Bea
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