- 02 Jul 201313View
Twilight Garden
Twilight medicates
the hysterical summer garden.Laudanum of luminous blue
doping - 06 Jul 20133View
Summer
Wheat
like rods of gold
in the fields of your youth
once glowed
stood tall
waved in the - 09 Jul 201346View
French Chickens in the Yard
The molten rooster mooches in the burning dust,
testing grassless earth for temperature
with - 17 Jul 20132View
summer wine
Its summer time sip that summer wine kids are allowed out till at least nine
Childhoods last for - 21 Jul 201313View
Moon Slips Her Skin
The feverish summer Moon
has slipped her luminous silver skin
to bathe –there it rocks on the
- 24 Jul 20132View
Melting
It seems a long way,
From those snow days,
As sun scorches parched earth,
From incomprehensible - 24 Aug 20131View
Fugacious Flirtations on June Night
Soft sounds of struggle
permeate transcriptions
of otherwise verbal communications.
Aware of the - 27 Aug 20133View
My World
Enjoyed this summer more than ever
Nobody disturbed my peace and quiet
Could rediscover myself and - 05 Sep 20132View
Kuwait
(For Chris Booth)
A pressed down
Heat exhausted stagger
Through furnace-fierce oppression. - 07 Sep 20132View
Monte Estoril
The old stone breakwater
Proudly juts from Portugal
Almost to Brazil.
Alone, our legs dangle - 19 Oct 20132View
Summer Breeze.
Blow, blow, soft summer breeze
whispering through the poplar trees
scented sweet as I - 03 Nov 20132View
Maria Einsiedel Bad
Straight from a river
Straight from mountains,
The water is
Too icy for me.Baby and
- 15 Nov 2013View
The Outside Toilet. ( haibun )
It was at the bottom of the garden, a small blue beach hut, number ninety nine. A plank seat, set
- 07 Dec 2013View
Musicians-in-Residence
The cooing is a steady percussive beat,
Holding the garden symphony together.
Between the - 07 Dec 20132View
Too Soon
The gully breeze prophesies a bushfire.
Phone calls, plans and decisions are made.
Children and - 04 Jan 20141View
Haiku 001
blue summer twilight
a tawny silhouette bobs
-predators' eyes meet. - 06 Feb 201422View
Midsummer
a bright midnight
shadows long and sharp
dawn chorus of donkeys, dogs and blackbirds.
none can - 22 Feb 201434View
Summer of Dreams
I wish I was back
To that summer a few years ago,
To be with the people as I knew them then,
When - 23 Feb 20141View
Haiku 029
tomatoes
between gold and red
lips well met - 01 Mar 201433View
Haiku 034
hedge afire
with a thousand blossoms
summer's last rain - 09 Mar 2014View
My tourist friend
You will come here
When the sky is clear
Drunk of the sun
Looking at the sea
You will tell - 18 Mar 201412View
To A Woman
It was summer's eve when I saw
A star that I spied across a sky
I named a star after her - 28 Mar 201432View
Butterfly. (86)
I sat in a flowered field,
the sun was a flaming orb in the sky
and then, to my delight,
on my - 20 May 201468View
Bumble Bee Learning About Flowers
Bumping home on random kerbs of air,
through summer’s glutted, cloying light,
glistening, sticky - 01 Jun 201432View
Happy June
Love June in between Spring and Summer
Lost a bit in fragrance, colours, in birdsongs
Days are - 05 Jun 20141View
Unstained. (142)
After each summer I forget
how often it has rainedI remember them as long and sunny,
memories - 08 Jun 2014View
Summery
I love those buzzy little aeroplanes
The ones which Summers bring
I never hear any in Winter - 19 Jun 20141View
First crown
She always wanted to be the May Queen and in June, she discovered that Summers were eternal, and
- 21 Jun 201422View
Britain's Heritage.
Summer Solstice.
From Preseli mountains in Wales
to grace Salisbury plain a cathedral
of - 01 Jul 2014View
Shortage. (165)
No words do right
by this glorious summer,
but fortunately
no summer
needs my praise.14 June
- 01 Jul 2014View
Haiku On Summer. (171)
Silence is curled up
like a cat in the warm sun,
purring with delight.20 June 2014.
Michelle - 03 Jul 20143View
haiku 038
midday heat
the water song
of magpies - 03 Jul 20141View
Spider, man
“If you want to live and thrive,
let the spider run alive.” (American Quaker saying)this
- 07 Jul 20141View
June
Oh June how bright your stars may be
or how great your sky may shine.
You know that you will
- 07 Jul 20141View
Kilos
We could go on rides
across the blue sea.
We can ride the highway
as far as we can see.White
- 11 Jul 20141View
First Rose of Summer. (192)
The first rose of summer
Lifts her head
As she folds her petals like a skirtShe stands
- 20 Jul 20141View
Summer
A hot summer day
not a single leaf moves.
Even the shade is hot.
Can't breathe, air is hot!
All - 11 Aug 201412View
Convenience
This morning I noticed the roses
were blooming properly. The wind
blowing in a convenient - 20 Aug 20142View
The devil is a dick and Jesus likes to Party
The devil is a dick
And Jesus likes to party
But he's not a liberal
The good, the bad and the - 26 Aug 20142View
Sad Summer
For some, but not for me!
Green looks now greener;
plants growing heat free
in giant proportions - 31 Aug 20143View
Summer.
Summer Haiku.
I peg out the wash -
my bare feet loving
the dewy grasstwilight sky
- 09 Nov 201423View
In Winter
After Summer's Harvest --
As winter strips the leaves
from the trees , we can see
that - 16 Dec 2014View
Season Opens
Schubert soothes the dog next door
While I sip pinot grigio and hold the floor.
Through walled - 15 Feb 201552View
long summer
long summer
the bees take payment
in water
- 22 Feb 2015View
Heat Wave
heat wave
even the Chili bush
prays for rain
- 11 Jun 2015View
Dreaming
Smell of resin in hot summer sun
brings memories of carefree holidays
fallen cones cracking under - 31 Jul 201522View
Midsummer Day Dream.
Into the wild wind's whistle
through thick thatched thistle
and bramble bristle
scrambled - 05 Aug 20151View
Burgeoning day
Such the chorus the
Morning wood brings
Sounds of warblers
Mingle with the
Telltale bubbling