Thursday 31 August 2017

rising river steam
cathedral bells chime
out of synch

Published (2017) Blithe Spirit, (Journal of the British Haiku Society) Volume 27, Number 4, page 18.

LHA Ref:
Blithe Spirit 27.3, November 2017

Living Haiku Anthology

This haiku was edited - and improved - by Shrikaanth Krishnamurthy, the original was:

cathedral bells
chiming out of synch
river steam rising

Wednesday 30 August 2017

early morning

dog walking

steam rising

A linked renku with Su Wai Hlaing

new life

flows inside my daughter

as mine ebbs


fresh new leaves are symbols of 

another new beginning 


barley

the grain grows and ripens

then harvest


summer breeze carries along

smell of harvested barley


hammering

from a distance 

my late father


reminiscing my childhood 

my dad was the best singer


lullaby music

baby is listening

to silence

summer reclining
an ant
crosses my mind

Tried and failed to get above published so reworked to:

staring up at the sky
supine
an ant crosses my mind

Tuesday 29 August 2017

Sunday 27 August 2017

Saturday 26 August 2017

Thursday 24 August 2017

Wednesday 23 August 2017

Tuesday 15 August 2017

Tuesday 8 August 2017

summer rain
swallows swooping
foot in a puddle

I submitted this following a 'when, what, where, prompt on 'sharing haiku knowledge' on facebook and receive the comment from Bee Jay:

"Usually a haiku contains one cut and two grammatical units. Your example reads like a list, unless you are showing us some swallows swooping somebody's foot in a puddle. Is that what you are showing us?"

Grateful to receive the comment I amended to:

summer rain
with swallows swooping
foot in a puddle


Saturday 5 August 2017

Thursday 3 August 2017

an unfortunate worm in the mouth of the early morning blackbird