In these continued strange times and to do my little bit by giving back. I have put my new haiku collection ” Catch the Silence ” up on wattpad, where it is free for everyone to read.
Here is the link https://www.wattpad.com/857418999-catch-the-silence-haiku
distant seagull’s shriek
catches the silent moment
traffic roars again
down the narrow path
along the rocky coast walk
Northern Bedstraw blooms
rotting boat on rocks
prayers of returning safe
long time forgotten
an empty car park
leaves gather in sunken space
cracked iron cast grate
walkers on the road
avoiding jogger’s droplets
social distancing
after the rainfall
flowers droop from their brown pots
footprints of a cat
outside garden wall
purple tulips are blooming
wish that I could paint
Last Wednesday I had a meeting at a large company. Pulling in, it was difficult to find a parking space. After a couple of laps, one appeared. Preparing to get out, I noticed a monument opposite, with people sitting on a bench. When the meeting was over, went and had a look at the monument.
withered hedgerow frames
the remembrance monument
memories engraved
beside monument
naming passed over workers
people eat their lunch
Yesterday, the mist and drizzle was sweeping in off the Atlantic. Just after switching on the coffee percolator, I glanced out the kitchen window. There in a tiny hole in the hedge was a robin sheltering from the nasty weather. From my mind came these two haiku.
2. the sweeping mizzle / robin shelters in hedgerow / watch his sereneness
Thank you for reading
Colin Myles https://www.amazon.com/Haiku-Moments-reflections-nature-life/dp/1791581803/
Today was warmish for November, so I took a walk along the promenade. Here are some of the things that caught my eye, in haiku form.
Thank you for reading hope you enjoyed them.
Here are nine haiku, written over the past seven weeks. Hope you enjoy them.
2. midday sun blazes down/ pleading heartfelt seagull’s cry/ having ploughman’s lunch
3. the low tide saunters/ waves roll in a hundred fold/ numbers on water
4. emerald pastures/ view across the bay today/ silver spider’s web
5. white noise of traffic/ zooming by the bay window/ rose bush keeps blooming
6. a magpie returns/ tidying the hidden nest/ distant seagulls shriek
7. an empty red bin/ two forlorn pink flip flops wait/colony of gulls
8. along the seashore/ a trail of darkened seaweed/ forgotten flip flops
9. colony of gulls/ feasting on rotten seaweed/ swatting the sandflies
Thank you for reading, hope you enjoyed them.
Over the past weekend, I just finished the first draft of my second collection of haiku poems. Which roughly covers July 18 through to December 18. In the meantime thought I would share some ongoing haiku from 2019.
2. mild humid spring day/wind choreographs fauna/cut grass aroma
3. incoming high tide/ripples around the pier’s curve/flash of conger eel
4. another year flown/walk the same laneways again/Maythorn blossoming
5. iron graveyard gate/flecks of rust peeling away/narrow road to sea
I hope you enjoyed these five haiku.
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