Sunday, April 10, 2005

Tadpole Haiku


Today tadpoles irrupted
Into the dark pond.
As hungry goldfish circled. Posted by Hello

3 Comments:

Blogger junebee said...

It's "erupted".

12:14 AM  
Blogger Mike said...

ir·rupt (ĭ-rŭpt') pronunciation
intr.v., -rupt·ed, -rupt·ing, -rupts.

1. To break or burst in.
2. Ecology. To increase rapidly and irregularly in number: In the absence of predators, the island's rodent population irrupted.

[Latin irrumpere, irrupt- : in-, in; see in–2 + rumpere, to break.]
ir·rup'tion n.

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11:01 PM  
Blogger Mike said...

irruption

1) a forcible or violent rush; a breaking in
2) of a natural population: a sudden upsurge in numbers
3) eruption


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11:04 PM  

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