Haiku
A selection of published haiku and senryu
Spring
Monday morning
inky tulips cup
the washed-out sky
Poetry Pea Journal 3:22, January 2023
stream edge the first trickle of snowdrops
Wales Haiku Journal, Spring 2022
today,
a hint of spring—
first yellow
Poetry Pea Journal 1:22, June 2022
Dusk—the robin
in the bath
In the rain
Poetry Pea Journal 1:22, June 2022
spring light
my dormant mood
stirs
Poetry Pea Journal 3:22, January 2022
absence
the boundless blue
of a bluebell wood
The Haiku Foundation, Haiku Dialogue, 25th August 2021
anniversary—
a vase of fading
memories
Failed Haiku A Journal of English Senryu, Issue 68, August 2021
… and for the fourth time
painting the canvas bright red—
tulip mania
Failed Haiku A Journal of English Senryu, Issue 68, August 2021
Summer
early dawn
airing the house
with birdsong
Wales Haiku Journal, Summer 2022. Featured in the International Scriabin 150 Festival, 2022
June legato
a curlew’s call
colours the moor
Wales Haiku Journal, Summer 2022
Looking for my earring
between the cracks,
I find a ladybird
Poetry Pea Journal 1:22, June 2022. Awarded Judge’s Choice for ‘Celebrating Jack Kerouac’
lawn mown—
the distant hum
of a wildflower meadow
Cold Moon Journal, 5th July 2021
crystal clear toes
a white-clawed crayfish
slips by
Poetry Pea Journal, Autumn 2021
green desert …
today,
a glare of dandelions
The Haiku Foundation, Haiku Dialogue, 23rd June 2021
hawthorn—
the week in May
when green is greener
The Great Margin, Conversation 88, 20th May 2021
speedwalking
across my path
a snail
The Great Margin, Conversation 88, 20th May 2021
Autumn
scattered asters
the remnants
of a summer sky
Wales Haiku Journal, Autumn 2022
deluge
heather bruises
the moor
Wales Haiku Journal, Autumn 2022
5am rain
pigeons tap-dancing
on the tiles
Cold Moon Journal, 14th September 2021
a beautiful grey day
I dip my paint brush
into the clouds
Wales Haiku Journal, Autumn 2021
old red post box
the last Winterburn swallows
quaver on a wire
Poetry Pea Journal, Autumn 2021
autumn downpours
dashing along the canal path
just me and the pied wagtails
Poetry Pea Journal, Autumn 2021
mercurial
on Alchemilla leaves
last night’s rain
Wales Haiku Journal, Autumn 2021
leaf watching …
kaleidoscopic swirls
settle my mind
The Haiku Foundation, Haiku Dialogue, 4th August 2021
Winter
dry stone wall
the shape of silence
between thoughts
Wales Haiku Journal, Winter 2022-23
dried sunflowers the years lost to depression
Wales Haiku Journal, Winter 2022-23
New Year walk …
pausing, my shadow and the oak’s
become one
The Asahi Shimbun, January 20th 2023
firethorn berries
a solitary blackbird
perches between seasons
Wales Haiku Journal, Winter 2021-22
goldcrest
low in the pine
a slip of sunset
Wales Haiku Journal, Winter 2021-22
leaden mood
a sea of white gulls
lifts the sky
Poetry Pea Journal 1:22, June 2022
prussian blue and burnt umber
my brush searches
for infinity …
The Haiku Foundation, Haiku Dialogue, 10th November 2021
winter moor—
a solitary hawthorn
bonsaied by the wind
The Haiku Foundation, Haiku Dialogue, 14th July 2021