dawn seagulls

slide silently

overhead

Sitges watrefront

an early morning cat

yawns

on the nudist beach

elderly men

standing up

Miro paintings

for sale

abstract prices

Zagreb sequence

noon cannon

the pigeons end up

where they started

market stall seller

trading looks

with passers by

The Angelus bell

not even the sun

is up yet

street cafes

we move

from one country to another

Maksimir Park

a red squirrel

scuffs up leaves

main square pigeon

short fluttering flight

just ahead of the child

national park walk

our guide tells us

the same thing again

modern art museum

my wife agrees

to meet me at the door

Mirogoj Cemetry

mourners in black

greet one another

Published (2023) Blithe Spirit Volume 33 Number 1 page 81

early dawn

bat squeaks fade

against a red sky

Submitted (2023) Poetry Pea

flushing out

the last spider

of summer

from a soft ripe plum

the striped back of a wasp

emerges

Poetry Pea: S5E18 Original Haiku & Senryu using contrast

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a flock of sparrows

on the TV aerial

early morning bulletin

Commonwealth war graves

still soldiers

standing in rows

overnight rain

a squirrel changes trees

light shower

a yellow sun

behind light rain

lemon drizzle

in the rear view mirror

a cat

crosses the road

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in the rear view mirror

    a         cat

crosses the road

coastal defences

a Covid playground

for swarms of children

two blackbirds

engaged

in a tug of worms

midday heatwave

                ice cream

                       melting

                       down

                       to

                            my

                                elbows

early cataracts

at last

I feel old

a composed cat

clocks

my morning run

invisible old man

the drug pusher

looks past me

in a church doorway

the warm glow

of his crystal meth pipe

Accepted (2022) Poetry Pea

evening swifts

joining dots

in the sky

****'

morning swifts

break fast

above the treeline

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mood music

lifting mine

early morning

my grandson

spies a fox

morning stroll

robin red breast

suggests a path

empty supermarket

rows of chilled shelves

pilomotor reflex

****

passing the shilled cabinets

my pilomotor reflex

I open the window

and a haiku

flies out

partygate

I resign

        myself

dry season

only one haiku

electric lawnmower

the sound

of new cut grass

Milano Centrale

a human pigeon

hovers at my table

S O N I C

T R A D E

S A I L S

H A I L S

H A I R Y

H A I K U

three crows

enjoying

last night's party

above the headstone

a starling's eulogy

a slow train

of people

Stations of The Cross

a slow train of people

Stations of The Cross

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family wedding

my kilt belt

shrunk

an old gate

detached from its squeak

against the wall

against the wall

an old gate

detached from its squeak

Accepted HSA Anthology 2022

a toast rack of mountains

unfolds

through the mist

****

through the mist

unfolding

a toast rack of mountains

behind misty mountains

the fog of war

broken fence panels

finally

I meet my neighbour

Submitted (2022) Frogpond

neighbours with something in common

at last

Japanese knotwood

a jumble of worms

my final attempt

at Wordle

a flash of inspiration

followed

by a bang

retirement day

I turn the page

in the diary

freezing fog

my mind

goes blank

wayside pulpit

perched on top

a robin preaches

Submitted (2022) Frogpond

foggy day

another positive test

looking at the seagulls

looking at the seagulls

on my roof