starting to collect birds in autumn like a magpie #haiku #HaikuSaturday

Overcast and chilly the day sulks in silver tones #Three3s #haiku

deeper in the forest more autumn #haiku

The last of the rising grey smoke: winter's end #Three3s #haiku

We drive past the factories, the pulp mills, plumes of smoke that edge clouds. Past the fields, cow and sheep, tottering lamb. The birds murmur in soft charcoal dancing on blue and we watch it all from our momentum. A song plays and I drift away, my regrets chasing me. #vssdaily cow #vss365 pulp

A midnight lake made of silence and polished glass #Three3s #haiku

Drizzle on the glass, quiet echoes of sorrow, a heart weeping slow. #haiku #poetry #drizzle

#haiku rain shadow rustling with pockets of light

a mango pulp sunrise already giving way to light blue skies ruled over by that unrelenting day-star So much of life's beauty is ephemeral, between heartbeats, ghostly I walked home from the promontory soaked in sweat a man-mirage in the heat haze a hard won treasure that I'll own forever #vss365

Black oracle perched; thou know’st something I should not ask. Thy eye: a well where drowned stars speak in tongues of ash. What dreadful syllogism hides beneath that dead expression? I fear thy answer more than silence, more than God’s own riddled dark. #poetry

My favourite cafe used to be a bookshop something of the reverence for silence remains there is no music only the clink of cutlery low voices and large windows An oasis in a rapidly growing town I sip, watch people go by pen a few lines centre an off-kilter soul while warmed by an easy sun #vss365

The blur of a pandemonium of rainbow lorikeets pouring out of a eucalyptus tree As if the blue sky were suddenly a broken kaleidoscope #vss365

broken bridge- the river teaches me its alphabet #haiku #poetry

out of sight still on mind I ask regulars at the bird feeder what is the measure of love? #vss365 #vss366 #Haikufeels #haikuchallenge #writing #poem #poetry #poet #blueskypoets #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #micropoetry #tanka #haiku #senryu #5lines #3lines #dailyhaikuprompt #verse

Hiking at the start was a stumbling grueling ordeal but now he and his pack move as one sure-footed through the green stamina for days an unbroken line of wood concealing small feathered things that sing of his approach #inkMine #poem

forever is a nameless thing where roses rest in the endless wind #haikufeels

a ripple passing through the leaf litter. #OneLineOctober #Haiku #Monoku 🍂

Glowing in the dustbin a bloom of gold and silver wrappers I recruit my younger brother to find an elusive open box of chocolates #poem

fallen pinecone- a new forest already inside #haiku #poetry

hunter’s moon every so often my shadow #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt (hunter’s moon)

Following in my father's footsteps rustling through an autumn wood him so tall he literally blocks out the sun turns to me to show me something furry moss in an open hand #TankaThursday #poem

in the wash of stars owl’s cry enters me- I wake as smoke #haiku #poetry #birds

A sonorous tui gentleman of the skies with his cravat of white-tufted neck feathers calls down the dusk in a trill of incantations and soon dark wings become the night #vss365

autumn dusk silvering the crow’s feathers #haiku

It hadn't occurred to me that you had suggested a hike to take your mind off things You started a silly story then sank into silence and I had only the mountains to blame for your capriciousness Rock, forest and summit all impermeable to one person's history #vss365

What else of me can Be saved, when all I do is Crave that graceful touch. #Haikufeels #crave #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity

On a stroll into town I pass many Art Deco houses Fused in nostalgia, the look of my childhood and my friends' houses - my past But in its own time the style was all about the modern Bakelite and Chrome streamlined and shot into the future, through my childhood, and bleeding into now #vss365

autumn woods we’re singing summer to sleep beneath carmine & gold #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt (grave)

And with each new birdcall the storm is forgotten #Three3s #haiku

on the porch chair brilliant gibbous moon no room for loneliness #haiku #senryu #micropoetry #sensewrds #prompt 115

In dribs and drabs did we grow outside our meagre halls of power in a small New Zealand town our signs homemade as we listened to the final speaker say that mere miles away from the carnage they were marching half a million strong and we few took hope as we left in the rain #vss365

fallen stars caught on the trellis jasmine #dailyhaikuprompt vines

Silver morning mist gathers itself before wandering into town #Three3s #haiku

my boot sole thin, still the earth feels kind enough #haiku #poetry

Late night in a too-warm hotel room on the 16th floor I gaze over the melody of the traffic below Bright red blips of determined corpuscles pulsing up the hill into the thinning distance And on the other side bright white angelic orbs streaming in like a promise to minister to the city's wounds

first rain can’t stop myself from humming along #dailyhaikuprompt refreshing

Rolled up paper ball in hand I stride into the kitchen and attempt an audacious shot off the wall, off the cabinet, curling inside the lip of the bin before hitting bottom I raise my arms and in the lined sunlight from the blinds I know one millionth of the ecstasy of a championship win #vss365

after a mountain of undulations… the mountain #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt (undulate)

I keep watching Huka Falls seethe over unseen rocks until at last I am calm #vss365

Long hair wraps around the neck like a braided scarf against the mellow wind kicking up on a short walk home #vss365 #mellow

A bird landed on me today perched upon my shoulder like we were old friends a tiny squeeze of its feet a whisper of feathers and the bird was gone Did it tell its family that night that it landed on a man? Yeah, one of those human characters who while perhaps happy look always haunted #poem

lavender heavy with bumblebees #dailyhaikuprompt buzz

A sunset in its adolescence backlights clouds in pale orange which hang, frozen, in the day's leftover blue pastel sky It looks like a scene out of a movie of LA or Miami or someplace more interesting than here Two birds, lost in themselves chase each other over the horizon #poem

Drive through the city. Twinkling lights of high rises. A sky without stars. #haiku #dailyHaiku #cityNight #citySky

On a building site a jackhammer pauses to hear the end of a dirty joke #haiku

the sudden weight of light clothes in rain #haiku #DailyHaikuPrompt (light clothes)

Sun sets beyond some flint-edged mountains and by their foraging orange ember beaks into lush and silent soil I see hooked feet hopping in this dying light which gives life to sapphire underbellies and deepening wings and I am forced to contemplate the unreality of birds #vss365

. guiding me downstairs the soft light of my phone screen 4:13 a.m. #dailyhaikuprompt (sunflower) #haiku

The courtesan yawned, still drunk with sleep. Her thoughts took a while to form but finally painted the Greek from years ago, with the kind eyes. She padded to her jewellery box and took out his parting gift to her. Held up to the light she shivered, the onyx turning cerulean day to night. #vss365

Staring at the moon I found my courage and asked Will you dance with me? #haikufeels #haiku #poetry #stare #blueskywriters #writingcommunity