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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

barley

the grain grows and ripens

then harvest

Sunday 27 August 2017

white horse ginko

gliders and ginger beer

haiku hiking

Saturday 26 August 2017

morse code crows

on the line

but no message

Friday 25 August 2017

glinting salmon
my world briefly
then his

Published cattails April 2019 page 29

Living Haiku Anthology

flash of magpie

tree bound

death on a stick

summer evening

doves

mock my silence

facing the wall
unseen
my father's paintings

smooth as silk

her body

between cotton sheets

summerhouse clock

ticking 

without talking

Thursday 24 August 2017

empty glass

still half full

of my emotions 

Wednesday 23 August 2017

balmy evening

outside my window

a rowan tree

Sunday 20 August 2017

jungle road

fading into trees

what secrets?

winter walking

potato crisp noises

my feet are crunching

cicadas

in sun drenched trees

I seek shade

Friday 18 August 2017

dragonfly hovering

long body

short life

long road

car journey

dreaming up haiku

betel nut trees

waving and stimulating

my imagination

Sun Moon Lake

sun struck water

reflecting on life

Tuesday 15 August 2017

early morning incense 

cicada creaked trees

Taichung running

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


Monday 7 August 2017

broken clock

still ticking

no time to fix

Sunday 6 August 2017

summer

rain on fishpond

brimful of ideas

Saturday 5 August 2017

disused station

deserted

by trains of thought

Thursday 3 August 2017

streams

silently surrendering

Hellvelyn summit