Friday 4 October 2013

~ A Moon Symphony ~


Sad
men
use
elaborate
apparatus
to
incubate
a moon symphony
in
white.
July,2013

Saturday 21 September 2013

~ Emerald Green Waves ~

Emerald green waves
backlit by Equinox sun.
Autumn strokes my face.
21st September 2007

Sunday 14 July 2013

~ Backgammon Sand ~

Gentle waves greet sandy shore with soft kisses.
Golden sun plays peek~a~boo from behind lilac coloured clouds.
Seagull mews its mournful cry.
I walk on backgammon sand.
23rd January 2003
Newgale Beach

Friday 28 June 2013

~ Purple Umbrella ~

Purple umbrella
abandoned in green bushes,
waiting for the rain.
28th June 2013

Tuesday 25 June 2013

~Dance of the Butterflies~



Brown butterflies dance,
in the garden of secrets,
on a blue~skied day.
 25th June 2013

Wednesday 20 March 2013

~ Spring ~

The blackthorn is 
beginning to bloom,
and the hawthorn is 
showing the tenderest 
of new green, as its buds 
slowly give birth to its 
Spring foliage.
::
::
The collared doves send coded messages
of coo~ing love to one another,
and Sol climbs higher
and burns brighter
every day.
18th March 2013

Tuesday 12 March 2013

~ The Rooks Are Gathering ~

The Rooks are gathering
at Pelcomb Bridge;
making repairs to 
their grand estate
of twigs in the treetops; 
and heralding Spring
in a raucous chorus
of Rookery racket
::
::
and in the cold East wind
a Red Kite flies
::
High.

12th March 2013

Tuesday 12 February 2013

~ Contrail Scars ~

 Early~morning eyes 
see blue skies with contrail scars.
Progress breaks my heart.
12th February 2013

Sunday 10 February 2013

~ Smiling Moon ~

I gaze at the smiling moon;
a silver crescent
in a Lapis sky.
14th January 2013

Friday 8 February 2013

~ Mercury Falling ~

photo by Mark Lee
Silver horizon
Alchemy of sea and Sky
Mercury falling...
11th April 2008

Thursday 7 February 2013

~ Birds of the Stars ~

Sky
::
early~pale~blue.

Starlings
::
birds that fly with stars 
on their wings;
swooping in for the day,
chattering and singing
and making me smile.
 9th January 2013

Saturday 2 February 2013

~ Imbolc ~

Each dawn earlier.
Light returns to stretch the day
and to reel in night.
2nd February 2013

Thursday 31 January 2013

~ Assemblage Starlight ~

Photo by Mark Lee
Assemblage starlight.
Nature congregating.
Gravitational sidestep.
2nd July 2008

Wednesday 30 January 2013

~ Closed Into A Circle ~


Confuse centre of expansion;
accurately envisaged,
stretching, swelling, 
surprising curvature,
distortion,
::
space.

Sense bend in manner;
the concept of irrelevant buttons,
closed into a circle.
30th June 2008

Tuesday 29 January 2013

~ The Sea ~

  
I sit and watch your power, your beauty,
your wildness, your might.
You have strength, independence, freedom.
No one tames you, manipulates you; 
your will is your own.

You work with the wind and the moon,
You love the way they make you move.

Watching you lifts me high,
makes me sing;
and we have a common tide 
you and I,
expanding and contracting,
inhaling and exhaling;
the very motion of 
life.
11th February 2002



Monday 28 January 2013

~ Newgale ~

Black clouds to my left.
It is raining out at sea.
Now it rains on me.
2nd January 2003

Sunday 27 January 2013

~ Three Beautiful Pearls ~

Photo by Mark Lee
Haiku 1

Theophilus chain:
Cyrillus, Theophilus
and Catharina

Haiku 2

Seven~day old moon
Shows south Theophilus chain,
three beautiful pearls.
13th July 2005

Saturday 26 January 2013

~ The Storm ~


A thunderstorm blows itself 
into our sky;
all flashy, and showy and loud,
 backed by wild wind and rain torrents.

We turn out all lights
and turn off all noise,
and stand at the window
to watch its performance.

I give a startled 'oh' 
as I get blinded by each flash,
but thrill at the unfettered 
power of this Full Moon storm.
26th January 2013

Friday 25 January 2013

~ Worms ~

A blackbird in a cemetry
swaggers on a gravestone
surveying his necropolis territory,
 though heedless of its yard of bones,
- the only link - worms.
25th January 2013

Thursday 24 January 2013

~ An Owl Hoots a Lonely Call ~

Jupiter and Selene 
slow~dance across 
the evening sky,
but it is Cassiopeia who
captures me tonight,
with her 'W' of woe...
and I hear the sea's tempest
and an owl hoots
a lonely call.
24th January 2013

Wednesday 23 January 2013

~ Inhaling~Exhaling Sea ~

 Trees sculpted in sand.
 Inhaling~exhaling sea
A master carver.
23rd January 2013

Monday 21 January 2013

~ A Pre~Dusk Quick Step ~

Bright snow~light through glass.
A silver shine frisking along,
a pre~dusk quick step.
21st January 2013

Sunday 20 January 2013

~ Cwm Cerwyn ~

Cwm Cerwyn beckons ~
an escape to play in
vermillion drifts
and down icy slopes
as white winter
occults the green.
2oth January 2013

Saturday 19 January 2013

~ Haiku in Welsh ~


Mae hi'n oer heddiw.
Eira gwyn ar y mynydd.
Amser cynnau'r tân
19th Ionawr, 2013
It is cold today.
White snow over the mountain.
Time to light the fire.

Friday 18 January 2013

~ As I Gently Drift to Sleep ~


The fire is warm,
though fading as the night ages.
Ash and willow burn,
red embers dimly glowing
as I gently drift to sleep.
Waka poetry
17th January, 2013

Thursday 17 January 2013

~ Water Music ~


Light water music
as rain drops into puddles,
I hum a new tune.
17th January 2013

Wednesday 16 January 2013

~ A Storytelling of Crows ~



The wind has stilled and
the birds cheer in a chorus
of peace, as a dove coos.

A hazy, filtered sun dips westward
behind the branches of Ash trees,
which stretch upward into a creamy
blue sky;
::
::
and crows gather in a story.
::
::
::
and I sit....and breath.
 15th January, 2013

Tuesday 15 January 2013

~ A Gateway to Light ~


and the trees grow through
and show a gateway to light,
woven in magic.
January 11, 2013