Saturday 31 July 2021

 olympics

the swimming commentator 


wins gold

 rhossili boat house

private property no entry

oh yes!


so much seaweed

on a restless tide

stubbed toes


handholds

of all who pass this way

shinning 


beyond the point

under a black seal sky

many white horses 


bay of cleats

boats upside down

erosion of time


hot day

seagull thermals

flying ants


waiting for the tide

with the worm in my sight

no rush 


worm’s head

the sound of the fury

uncovered


worm’s head

an ocean apart

these tides of thought


holding the sky

the worm’s head

unyielding


the sea has turned

upon the walking of a day

seals sleep on




        married

before you arrived


   after you left

 speak to your sea

send your kisses to my sea


how long is joined

 snores

a dog barking 


midnight

 by the time

we understand sand


we’ll be under sand

 silver medal

the bees on the lavender


springboards

Friday 30 July 2021

 history

in hunting the future

is past tense

it is highly strung the say

as it should be they say


 reading with my cat

listening to the old songs 


i write five haiku

 hot day

seagull thermals

flying ants

 inch by inch

after the storm has passed


lavender sun

 past wars

this concrete estuary


still waiting 

      ~ sketch book ~

the wind turns the pages


       of yesterday 

Thursday 29 July 2021

Sunday 25 July 2021

 I have created a Facebook group called HaikuEye with the hope of sharing haiku and senryu - I am a Facebook novice and I believe the following is a link to the group - please join if interested - Jim


https://www.facebook.com/groups/219477083277513/permalink/219477999944088/

 potty training 

the anxious parents


never get it 

 on an island

the coast goes right around


walking either way

Tuesday 20 July 2021

 sea breezes

heavy with marijuana fumes

sea gulls reeling 

 moon moon

ah ~ there you are


again 

 the answer

found in the question

is the answer

 the cat’s accident

she hides herself away to die

and when she doesn’t

she comes back home

and eats her dinner

 the poet

how does he think those thoughts

i thought


and with that thought 

i had written my first poem

and so here it is


for my next poem

i think i will think less

and write more or less

 to walk

and to find a haiku


this is life

 my poetry 

no better than my ballet


gift horse

 open

the lavender


drifting in

 that space

beside the poet

just for me

 one breath

and the dawn

is yours

 cat playing with a leaf moth bird

 priceless

the morning breeze


on a summer’s day

Thursday 15 July 2021

 tomorrow 

we shall go to the sea


again 

 hot corn field

on the path crossing through


wood pigeons clapping

 St Swithin’s Day

and the world is on fire


how many more days?

 a red admiral

then a cabbage white


soon the moths

 sunset

the crows on the roof


turn red



sunset shadows


the crows’ fluttering


on my window

 in the dictionary 

discombobulated by the simulacrum 


i look up thesaurus 

 deep

in the woods 


a sapling 

 seaside

a boat sails through the trees


nearly there 

 in this book

of the beggar


i smell vinegar 

 how playful 

the way my eyes go bouncing


over the flowers

 flowering

all around the Buddha 


this morning

Saturday 10 July 2021

 unforgiven

the clove of garlic


in the cat’s water 

 Yugen


all alone

although i like visitors

i also like the rain


my feet under 

the waterfall 

over my feet



        "zero hope"

all the dammed tears

         collapse



petrichor 

steaming from the pavement

summer rain



children

hanging the sky 

upside down



bridge of my nose

between thumb and forefinger

a dark well



summer meadow

a profusion of look look

wild flowers



contributaries 

thoughts becoming a renku

as the saké flows



there is nothing as stupid as a stupid fly



mum kissed my plaster

and the tears ran backwards 

just in time



 the sleepy cat

and the door fly


ask to go out

          "zero hope"

all the dammed tears


           collapse

 i wrote a poem

on a tree stump


it was rotten