Tuesday, 8 July 2014

Lakeland haiku


crows fly below us
step-by-step, a steep ascent,
above, only sky

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poet captures words
cages them between the lines
sentence meted out

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friendless, wandering
existing to shed tears
solitude of clouds



a secret mirror
clouds reflected in the tarn
fish dreaming of flight

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tawny owl
cuckoo
blackbird
greater-spotted woodpecker
blue tit
great tit
robin
wood pigeon
crow
jackdaw
song thrush
greylag goose
chaffinch
yellow wagtail

pipistrelle bat
mason bee
red squirrel
midgie


woodpecker watching
squirrels chase one-another
through branches of pine

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a dead lamb listens
to the yellowhammer's song
eyes plucked out by crows






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