SPRING:
Presence 70
blackthorn spring
kale going to seed
in frost-hard furrows
first snowdrops
whitewater foams
over gritstone
SUMMER
Modern Haiku 52.1 summer 2021
rain-flattened wheat
the heron casts its shadow
into the stream
Blithe Spirit Summer 2021
open door
her perfume
after all these years
heavy showers
the old stone trough brimming
with duckweed
zipping up for the night
the sound of rain
enters our dreams
AUTUMN
tinywords autumn 2020
harvest moon
laughter bubbles
from the neighbour’s hot tub
Frogpond 44.2 spring summer 2021
teasle down
all along the train tracks
the finch’s song
Presence, 69
November morning
the cry of rooks
lifts with the fog
WINTER
Presence, 69
full moon
filling the turnip crates
winter harvest
Presence 70
smelling almost
of childhood
these flakes of snow
MISC:
Heron’s Nest summer 2020
sketching the dog
the scratch of my pen
behind his ears
British Haiku Society, Temple anthology
votive candles
the warmth of your breath
haunting the dark
SEQUENCES:
Horsehold
hill farm
the curlew’s long call
over the lambing shed
pitching the tent
in the lee of the barn
a host of sparrows
boundary stone
that sense of having
been here before
chair legs on the woodpile
behind the gate
the farm dog barks
zipped against the wind
the fly sheet breathes
in and out
cock crow
low cloud scuffs
the telephone wires
drying the groundsheet
somewhere close by
the first cuckoo
PHOTO HAIKU:
rainwashed gritstone
early light
tipping the clouds
coffee by the canal
the time it takes
for goslings to swim past
photographing the well
failing to capture
the sound of water
Click on the following links to read some of my earlier poems:
Breathing Through Our Bones
Journey
A Pint For The Landlord
The Great Antonio
Substrata
Spermaceti
Julie Mellor - poet 