Maundy money

from one rich pensioner

to another

ball tampering

square leg and silly mid off

cricket

old screwdriver

shaking hands

with my father

my late uncle

his number

still in my phone

wave haiga

spring fever
my mind unbalanced
by the equinox

at the junction
only my mood changes
broken lights

Published (2018) Blithe Spirit (Journal of the British Haiku Society) Volume 28, Number 2, page 43.

LHA Ref:
Blithe Spirit 28.2, May 2018

Living Haiku Anthology

The Haiku Registry

Daily Haiku 9 February 2022

old quarry

my heart

turns to stone

old frog
leap...
no splash

old frog
leaps
but no splash

old frog
leaps...
no pond

spring morning

my memory jogged

by running

has winter ended?

the garden

goes to bed

under a blanket of snow

Suggested revision by Su Wai Hlaing;

the garden

goes to bed 

snow-blanket

argument over

the snow on the roof

thawing

Published (2020) The Asahi Shimbun 21 February

winter cobweb
the spider
catching only snowflakes

barefoot

before the Emerald Buddha

I kneel

my thoughts

flickering

between two candles

today’s diet

a mouthful of insects

flying ant day

blue tit haiga

impatient blue tit
on a rowan tree
pecking the buds

Another version suggested by Su Wai Hlaing:

hungry blue tit

on a Rowan tree

pecking the buds

bare Rowan tree

Mr blackbird calls for

his partner

(after suggestions by Su Wai Hlaing)

blackbird

on a bare rowan tree

waiting for spring

blackbird haiga

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blackbird
on a bare rowan tree
waits for spring

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the flycatcher

feeds the goshawk

with caterpillars

snow
leopard and bear-trap
but who dies?

(ekphrastic on The Mountain Between Us starring Idris Elba and Kate Winslet)

choral baton

dove to owl to woodpecker

rhythm of the night

the cat on the wall
next execution
being planned

exasperated

we try another throw

boomerang child

running magazine
my eyes sprint
over the pages

running magazines
my eyes sprint
over the titles

through morning frost

Buddha

glistening 

a change of shift

the owl falls silent

the woodpecker takes over

(with thanks to Su Wai Hlaing for the idea of the change of shift)

at dawn

the woodpecker takes over

as the owl retires

the baby lizard

refuses my biscuit

and disappears

the old potter

at his wheel

spins a yarn

the snowplough passes

as the beagle

searches in the snow

my new grandson

complete

except for memories

toilet flush

air lock

middle ‘C’

the snowman melts my heart