It was one of those serendipitous moments - hanging out the washing I looked up at the sound of whistling, thinking it was the farmer working his dogs. Only to see a couple of Red Kite rising from the fields with lazy wing beats and forked tails twisting - pale red-brown marionettes in the morning sun ...
distant bells
red kite rising
into sunlight
An iridescent mist across the fields shines like a cloud of light above the dew-wet grass. As the day slowly finds its way the soft autumn sunshine, shorn of summer glare, lights up the fern, in glowing shades of yellow and brown.
And robins sing again ...
watching kestrel hovering my perspective shifts
Bin brewing a while ; yet ...
after the storm
reading the leaves
another cuppa
#haiku #senryu
Baywatch ...
on the beach the ebb and flow of sanderling
#oneline #haiku #Sanderling
The first few #autumn migrants on passage ...
harvest moon hidden by clouds a flock of plover
First published in @hedgerowpoems, #133 Autumn 2020 edited by @CarolineSkanne
#haiku #oneline #monoku
summer grasses dreaming the dreams of warriors
A #monoku inspired by a passage from ‘The Story of My Heart’ (1883) by #RichardJefferies and a Haikai verse by #MatsuoBasho (1644–1694) (English version by @haikutec )
summer grasses:
the remains of warriors
and their dreams
Inspired by ‘A Child’s Garden of Verses’ (1885) by #RobertLouisStevenson
harvest moon
across the counterpane
battles fought
#haiku #harvestmoon #poetry
