low sun

my mood

reflected

cold snap

heads down and short steps

on the sidewalk

a low watery sun

strikes

the silent school

taking my parkrun token

in communion

with the other runners

in a dark stable, the warmth of animal bodies

Found in The Galley Slave by Drago Jančar

wet leafy morning

my neighbour's pears

in a box

circus ring

the high-wire lady

sells popcorn

summer morning

a black and white cat

on the bowling green

                                                                                     ways

                                                                    our

                                                we

at the end of the line

                                                                go

                                                                                separate

light rain

Buddha smiles

amidst the petrichor

Highland cairn

the ones

they left behind

rows of traffic lights

tomatoes

ripening on the vine

purple wood

the whisper

of a barking fish dog

Published (2021) weird laburnum 6 November

monoku: catching snowflakes on my tongue ozone layer

house move complete

new faces

in old mirrors

Published (2021) Failed Haiku Volume 6, Issue 71

ekphrastic

Barbara Hepworth

the synaesthesia

of sculpture

leaving the coal shed

I create

my own carbon footprint

Published (2021) Failed Haiku Volume 6, Issue 71

at the portal

the weight of worship

on my shoulders

Yang-Ming mountain

the smell of sulphur lingers

on my skin

Published (2021) Blithe Spirit Volume 31 Number 3 page 36

'Pick it up'

partially obscured

by dog poo

house move

downsizing

the aquarium

Published (2021) Blithe Spirit Volume 31 Number 3 page 16

house viewing

mentally I furnish

someone else's house

Suggestions from London Haiku Group 4 July 2021:

house viewing

mentally I furnish

someone else's

house viewing

mentally I furnish

someone else's home

house viewing

mentally I furnish

someone else's bedroom

house viewing

mentally I furnish

someone else's rooms

house viewing mentally I furnish someone else's

with a fistful

of lottery tickets

great expectations

intermittent showers

will I make it

to the shops?

intermittent showers

weighing up

the consequences

intermittent showers

weighing up

the options

monoku: her response the interrobang says it all

frozen mountain stream

the percussion

of unseen pebbles

Published (2022) Wales Haiku Journal Winter 2021-22

Episode 14: Roger Watson's haiku "Frozen Mountain Stream" from Wales Haiku Journal Winter 2021/2022

monumental mason

jisei

yet to be written

sharpening his tools

my father surrounded

by the smell of sparks

Published (2021) Visiting the Wind HSA Members' Anthology 2021 p.40

old age shopping

the list of forgotten items

grows longer

ominous dawn

a muted morning chorus...

storm brewing

nearly the end

missing  more than ever

the smell of draught beer

a final subscription

to the TLS:

cancel culture

only through a glass

darkly

my grandchildren

Palm Sunday

the queue of penitents

rehearsing their story

chimney pot pigeons

p

  o

    o

      p

        i 

         n

           g

coastal tank traps

half buried

memories of war

the holly bush

erupts

into a pigeon

rape seed field

the smell

of yellow

the young vet

our old cat

the end

stormy night

I imagine the garden

rearranged

Published (2021) Wales Haiku Journal Spring

shuffling slowly

towards the testing centre

lateral flow

memorial gathering

fence flowers flutter

their goodbye

the coroner's van

gliding away

respectfully

stone Buddha

up to his knees

in snow

Humourous haiku (Poetry Pea)

 A podcast from the Poetry Pea featuring Roger Watson, Peter Draper and Andrew Shimield

Judges choice nomination, Roger:

round bales of hay…
cattle sadly waiting
for a square meal

Rob McKinnon

happy

                birth           to

                         day        you

        Leave meeting

bye                        b..

       bye        bye

                bye

the white silence of snow

criss-crossed

with car tracks

insect breath

a constant stream

of silence

looking surprised

she emerges

from the botox clinic

 deadogwoodlandfill

howling fish eyes

tears melting

through waves of despair

frosty morning

a banana for breakfast

bending the rules

Published (2021) cattails April page 42

winter walk

following

frosty footsteps

rusting crabs

eyeing the clouds

through mushroom dreams

starlit night

at the top of the stairs

moon landing

morning sun

on a frosty roof

spirits rising

Twelfth Night

Jesus, Mary and Joseph

in bubble wrap

Published (2021) Failed Haiku Volume 6, issue 52, page 19

University Challenge

after each question

I knew that!

The Epiphany

moving the Wise Men

a few inches closer