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 ...
All Hallows’ Eve
It had been a dreary sort of day beneath low, grey skies of late Autumn; the last day of October - All Hallows’ Eve - Samhain in the old agricultural calendar. The Jackdaw coming in early against a sullen afterglow, fall silent. Leaves rustle beneath my feet, patterning my path; before a gust of wind swirls them around, dumping them in some forgotten corner of the churchyard 1. The clocks already gone back, the past week; the evenings drawing in. It’ll be dark soon ...
Starling Murmuration
It’s that time of year again - when leaves, blown in freshening winds, swirl and dance; lighting up dark corners with their vivid colours, patterning our streets and hidden paths - before melding into uniformity ...
Pleased as punch to have this in today’s Scarlet Dragonfly Journal. Thanks to @KathleenTrocmet ... https://scarletdragonflyjournal.wordpress.com/2022/07/03/sultry-winds/
#SenryuJournal #haikuhut #failedhaiku #linkedverse #issue79 Thanks & congratulations dear Vandana Parashar for this collaborative verse.
Grateful to Bryan Rickert, Editor
Here’s the most recent podcast of my short #haiku readings: Longest Day http://anchor.fm/clive-bennett0… @RJefferiesSoc #Nature #Yellowhammer
Thrilled to have two haiku in the latest issue of Hedgerow ... thanks to Caroline Skanne for including them
windblown ...
across the reeds
cuckoo song
between storms the song of a song thrush
#haiku @hedgerowpoems @CarolineSkanne
Thrilled to have two haiku in the latest issue of Hedgerow ~ #haiku #hedgerowpoems @hedgerowpoems
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