A Calendar of Haiku - March
... a shepherds warning. Or is it a Welsh Dragon belching fire from the mountains! ...
Mistle Thrush sing from the Churchyard Yews on a blustery morning, in early March - the sky a fiery red just before sunrise.
The Magic of Birdsong: A fine fresh morning - the sun streaming through the bedroom window - slightly open, the red and white gingham curtains moving gently in the morning air - dust motes caught for a moment - faerie dust, shining like tiny golden stars; the incessant chatter of House Sparrow and the garbled chuckling, whistling and mimicry of Starling from the cottage eaves and chimney pots; Green Woodpecker laughing from the nearby Ash; And Cuckoo calling from the copse across the fields - a Messiaen symphony. The scent of early spring - apple blossom and garden flowers in the warming sun. A heady romance. A childhood memory as real now as it was then - For this moment at least I am transported - there in the trees and fields around - what is that if not magic ... the magic of birdsong.
Listening, thinking of nothing, simply living in the sound of the night, the world seems more alive; the dusky green of field and hedge a monochrome greyish-silver in the pale light, the telegraph poles stark black throwing spooky shadows across the fields. A Barn Owl hunting along the edge of the wood - ghostly white. A Curlew calling.
#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
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Thrilled to have two haiku in the latest issue of Hedgerow ~ #haiku #hedgerowpoems @hedgerowpoems
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