Five Haiku

Cold barren swampland--
An ancient one-eyed vulture
Careens in circles.

Crisp brown sun-baked turf--
A whispering rattlesnake
Sifts like wind through reeds.

A wild June twilight
Electric, pulsing with life--
Cricket symphony

Blinding desert light--
A lone eagle sentinel
Gazes with dull cold eyes

Tempest surging night--
Manic midnight ocean waves
Churn heavy and slow

*For these haiku I tried to use the traditional 5-7-5 syllable per line structure. Also, like traditional haiku, I used nature as my primary topics. Lastly, I followed with the two-component structure: one line is a statement (at beginning or end), and the group of two lines is a phrase. This split is signified by "--".