Wednesday 19 September 2012

"A Walk Around The Fields Of My Mind"




Haiku

Tires swish on wet roads
No smell of the earth drinking
Missing the woodlands
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She rubs against me
Like an affectionate cat
Half a ton of bovine love
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Some years
The blackthorn blossom
Lies like snow
Upon the branch
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Hawthorn blossom
Seldom heard
Over the sound of casting clouts
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Gathering
Sticky buds in the grave yard
Balm of Gilead
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A Vixen's love song
Is not a thing of beauty
'Cept to a dog fox
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The smell of sweet sap
Rising from the saw's sharp blade
Next winter's firewood
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Sitting underneath
A flowering cherry tree
Basho fills my mind
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Sea breezes jangle
The wind chimes made of sea shells
In the life guard’s hut
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Winter ploughing
With a great long white kite tail
Of following seagulls
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A shepherd's reward
After days and nights of toil
Spring lambs
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Beach combing was so
Much nicer in early days
Before the plastic bottle

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