Category: Haiku

twilight fireworks

all day I paint

a picture of dill

this year

those strange red berries

untouched by the pigeons

origami –

her swan song

unfolds

Christmas star

Orion’s sword

points to the pine

heavy with pears

the arching curve

of her belly

winter seclusion

the space between

the metronome

heartsease

smiling

but not laughing

before the raid-

twilight magpies

checking the cherries

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picking gooseberries-

behind me picking cherries

blackbirds!

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sunset field

mingled with roses

the sweet breath of cows

two short taps

on flint

black cap’s warning

Realised it wasn’t a robin after all, but a blackcap. He has been singing his beautiful clear song from every topmost post or tree in the garden. He must be more territorial than the robin because I haven’t seen him since the black caps’ arrived…

black star

in a blue sky

the first swallow

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passing the torch setting sun to day-moon