over the mountains

early morning airport sun

lands on the runway

“Jesus to a child”

on a loop

exit?

river sunrise
headless swans grow heads
and preen

Tried and failed to get above published so reworked to:

morning river

the sun rises

and swans grow heads

Published (2018) Failed Haiku Volume 3, Issue 36, p.18

Living Haiku Anthology

Bled lake

mountains with twin peaks

one in the water

Japanese painter

Slovenian translator

still none the wiser

swan feeding serenely

the gulls

less dignified 

ember sky

over a cold landscape 

the final days?

across the Danube 

snow-streaked Austrian landscape 

Viennese whirls

Monopoly
the family fight
over fake money

Published (2018) ephemerae Volume1, A, page 86

LHA Ref:
ephemerae 1.A, April 2018

Living Haiku Anthology

in bed

I dream haiku

my wife snores

early morning kiss

packed in my suitcase

I close the door 

I curse my neighbour

but the woodpecker drills

and I laugh

cleaning my pond

I net two sleeping frogs

and put them back

morning owl

invisible 

but so close

signing in
ashamed of how quick
I want to sign out

the cat scarpers

I sit down

on a warm cushion

an owl hoots

audible

yet not visible 

the owl swoops

visible

yet not audible 

winter owl

or was that the moon

calling to me?

recoiling

relaxed and tumescent 

the afterglow worm 

a flock of sheep

look up!

cotton wool clouds

winter evening run
snowflakes on my tongue
footsteps behind me

iconic bronze
with no thoughts
still

(ekphrastic on Rodin’s sculpture The Thinker)

Published (2019) Poetry Pea 16 December

raft boy drowning
beneath the tarpaulin
crouching tiger

(ekphrastic on the book Life of Pi by Yan Martel, film directed by Ang Lee)

the plane lands

as new memories fade

old ones arise

Korean winter

on both sides of the road

snowfall

through the morning haze

in the face of the Buddha

I see her smile

in the twilight

a chorus of animals 

the frog conducts

dog-eared and well read

the old book smells of words

as I turn the page

Iowa State

my ten year old son

catches fireflies

winter pond

with still koi

but a frog croaks

dawn beach

my bicycle

stares out to sea

(inspired by an Instagram photo by Philip Darbyshire; pdarbyshire)

frogs fish and fireflies

Buddha sitting by a pond

no haiku cliches

funeral parlour

a hand protrudes

from the trolley