sparks rise
from the bonfire -
star filled sky
previously published in Blithe Spirit, the journal of the British Haiku Society
blackbird alarm calls -
grey squirrels chase each other
round the oak tree
cold November day -
why are so many people
carrying their coats?
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craftygreenpoet- November 6th, 8:16
- American sentences
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- craftygreenpoet
- October 25th, 16:15
American sentences? Just lazy haiku for lazy poets!
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An invitation is always more effective if it includes dates
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Ignore me for ten years? It won’t be easy to rebuild our friendship!
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On my deathbed I won't be thinking: 'oh i wish I'd done more housework!'
- oh your teeth are beautiful.....
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- craftygreenpoet
- October 23rd, 14:28
dental drill
whining in my mouth -
Atomic
- haiku
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- craftygreenpoet
- October 16th, 19:27
five wrens
on the bird feeder -
a fox watches
- Happy National Poetry Day
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- craftygreenpoet
- October 8th, 17:39
happy
Calder Wood Press have announced their chapbook line up for 2010 and I'm delighted to be included in the list. You can see the full list over at Colin Will's blog. Thanks Colin!
- haiku
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- craftygreenpoet
- October 6th, 19:30
morning light -
last night's seal becomes
a buoy
- three haiku
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- craftygreenpoet
- September 26th, 16:56
smashing glass
in the recycling bin -
blackbird alarm call
previously published in Haiku Scotland 21
low autumn light -
dying leaves dance
in the breeze
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fallen trees
covered in ivy -
dappled shade
- International Vulture Awareness Day
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- craftygreenpoet
- September 5th, 21:53
Vultures
Scrawny necked, ugly birds of death,
feeders on carrion and rotting things.Somewhere in Nepal,
they leave their dead for you,
on ice-cold mountainsides,
and watch you take the flesh,
the bones,
the heart,
the soul
Heavenward.
It's International Vulture Awareness Day today. Three of southern Asia's vultures have declined by 99% since the early 1990s. Vultures play a vital role in ecosystems, clearing up carcases and preventing the spread of diseases that could be picked up from these carcases. This decline is due in large part to a drug, diclofenac, which is used to treat domestic cattle. Vultures are poisoned by this drug when they feed on the carcases of domestic animals. Work is going on to ban this drug and to breed vultures in captivity to release them back into the wild. If caught soon enough, poisoned vultures can be treated and can recover.
- Shoes
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- craftygreenpoet
- August 15th, 10:25
We cannot speak for you
we have not walked your path
the path that wore down your shoes
the shoes that are now piled high
in glass cases that we file past
silently.
We have not walked your path
and cannot speak for you
but silence allows your deaths
again and again and again
Death and Shoes for Totally Optional Prompts
- Callanais
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- craftygreenpoet
- August 14th, 17:15
Bog grasses and lochans
Distant mountains where the woman sleeps
caressed by the moon low in the sky.
A circle of rocks dragged here
in response to a mystic power
we still feel today.
Distorted gravity.
A kink in the moon’s journey.
previously published in Moonstone
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- craftygreenpoet
- August 6th, 19:35
daytime moon
above the stone circle -
a hare in a ditch
- Writer's Block: Do Not Open Until 2059
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- craftygreenpoet
- August 3rd, 19:51
sad
I would put in the time capsule the scent of honeysuckle and a Noah's Ark full of the animals that won't be around in 50 years time....
- summer haiku
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- craftygreenpoet
- August 3rd, 19:46
pink stenchof Himalyan Balsam -migraine
**********************summer storm -the sweet smell betweenmy rabbit's ears
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swifts
shreik overhead -
thistledown
- Meditation on a Letter
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- craftygreenpoet
- August 2nd, 14:52
For Wolfgang
I remember the letter you wrote to me,
After so many years of silence,
Four times A4 in fancy font
With drawings and photographs.
Your humour shone from every page,
Your love for your friends and their children.
I read each word and dwelt on it,
Remembering four summers ago.
I remembered the trip you took me on
Through the Antrim countryside –
Frm Ballycastle to Dunluce Castle
And the Carrick-rede rope bridge.
The motorbike sped along country lanes
As we roared our way down the beautiful coast.
We used any excuse to stop the bike
There were so many things to explore.
I remember now, hearing the news
That you had killed yourself,
Silence set in, a sense of shock
And a terrible feeling of loss.
You were always so alive,
More alive than anyone.
I find myself ask myself
What stops the rest of us?
- Rainy Summer
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- craftygreenpoet
- July 31st, 13:26
There's no such thing
as bad weather
or so the Norwegians say
only the wrong clothes
But despite the trees'
green enjoyment
of constant rain
I long for something else
high blue windblown skies
sunshine warm on my skin
even a rainbow would do
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- craftygreenpoet
- July 28th, 19:13
a breeze
across the waterfall
scent of lime flowers***************************
changing the world
in the charity sector -
glued to computers
- Last Night's Storm
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- craftygreenpoet
- July 22nd, 7:44
flash of lightning
-moment of silence-
thunder crash
clouds fray into rain
water shines slate roofs
gulls flash almost golden
in the low light
- City Empire - a musical collaboration
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- craftygreenpoet
- July 19th, 19:57
- excited
I was recently involved in a musical collaboration with Edinburgh based musical project Belvedere Mountain Express. You can hear the first track of our collaboration on the Belvedere Mountain Express Myspace page. The track is City Empire featuring Juliet Wilson. Two more tracks will hopefully follow in the near future. Always a challenge fitting short poetry to long musical tracks, so keep listening, i do start talking eventually.....
- Art is Process
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- craftygreenpoet
- July 15th, 21:30
If we can create, shape, form
but be brave enough to know
what we do is incomplete.
If we dare to stand back, let go,
let water, weather, tides, life
take what we made,
Shape it restless again
until our art, our children
are no longer ours.
But to know that
we made their beauty
possible.
- summer haiku
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- craftygreenpoet
- July 3rd, 19:22
heat haze -
dragonflies silhouette
against the sky
previously published on Shamrock
