The Yellowhammer - Cameos of Birdlife #12
The Yellowhammer and his song has become embedded in our cultural memory and rural heritage. Immortalised by Beethoven and Blyton.
The Yellowhammer
A Few Monostich
A Few Monostich
Sometimes my haiku especially the one-liners or monoku seem to call for a setting - they seem a bit lost - somehow unfinished ... adding a title provides a sense of place in which the ku firmly resides.
Here then is a short collection of my monostich ...
The Whitethroat
The Whitethroat - Cameos of Birdlife #11
Walking up our lane this morning a Whitethroat sang from deep within summer drifts of hawthorn and cow parsley ...
A rather crackly recording by Ludwig Koch from 1936.
