Waka Challenge: Only 4 days left

We're just four days and four waka away from reaching our goal of publishing at least one waka a day from April 9 to May 9. Can we make it?

Today, two more by Contributing Editor Beth Lowell:

a robin's nest
in the rhodedendron
sheltering
the cat who sleeps below
we all do the best we can

The deer in the woods
oblivious to thunder
stand under the rain
and drink from the cups of leaves
while lightning scorches the sky