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Category Archives: haiku and senryu
Food, Glorious Food
Image from Google I’ve written many perfumed poems, including my favourite A Smelly Poem and I don’t want to re-cover old ground, so here are a couple of little senryu for Grace’s prompt at dVerse, to drizzle our … Continue reading
Heron embroidery
Jock seems to be getting quicker at these embroideries: it only seems five minutes since he finished the goslings. The idea for this one came from an advertiseent in the Radio Times. courtship or antagonism ruffled feathers suggest a fight … Continue reading
Posted in haiku and senryu, Jock's projects, nature poems
Tagged long and short stitch, Peinture avec l'aiguille
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6-word-Saturday
Why do Saturdays arrive so quickly? My weeks are uneventful nowadays and I always seem to be writing 6-w-S. I’ve hardly put my nose outside the door this week, and haven’t a great deal to show for April. Too … Continue reading
Senryu of friends
The last day of my personal haiku challenge is where I acknowledge the support of my friends, including my friend from le Moulin who is shortly to arrive bearing lunch, with this group of senryu. Most crucial aspect of life for … Continue reading
Hiatus Haiku
I’m falling down on my resolution to post at least a haiku every day, which doesn’t bode well for Napowrimo. Having written next to nothing for the last couple of days, these 17 syllables are hardly great productivity! The … Continue reading
Posted in haiku and senryu
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Wordle 244 Haiku chain for Easter Sunday
Your names are many, oh God of many forms ─ rescue earthly life Words are not enough ─ enlighten the misguided blow smoke from our minds Banish three pebbles ─ distrust, fear and violence from beneath our feet Banish … Continue reading
Windy weather haiku
image from here Silvery ripples sweep across the grassy scene ─ spring gale is rising
Posted in haiku and senryu
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First Day of Spring (officially)
A hiding place for wild things along the bocage — waiting for release The bocage is the French name for a network of banks and hedgerows guarding sunken tracks through the countryside in the Normandy Cotentin.
March Haiku
Just to keep my hand in for Napowrimo… Tractor procession trundles by twelve hours a day Spring work has begun
A Feeble Haiku
Winter’s woes are catching up with me ─ despite spring’s arrival Napowrimo’s approaching fast – I must keep practising.
Sunday stillness
Here the land is still basking in spring call to growth but not quite ready Early flowers wilt, Summer buds are still tight shut lush growth yet to come
Posted in haiku and senryu
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6-word-Saturday
Finished in the nick of time for Charline’s birthday on Tuesday, though I still have to make the cushion filler. For the purpose of the picture I stuffed an old cushion inside the new cover. If I have time I’ll … Continue reading
Morning haiku
A blanket of fog covers the tranquil landscape ─ hides progress of Spring later pallid sunlight vaguely illumines the field — Spring is hesitant continuing my windup towards Napowrimo next month
Posted in haiku and senryu
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Woodland senryu
image http://miriadna.com/ An ocean of green shadowy depths ─ through which float islands of sunlight Deepest forest clouded by the breath of trees — small creatures creep
Posted in haiku and senryu, nature poems
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Senryu 4
image from Pinterest uncredited Gritty residue evaporated puddle of oily rainbow
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