library returns
the holiday guidebooks
not quite ready

kangaroo park -
again, the tourist
jumps for her picture

Flood damage...

My current notebook.
I'm hoping my best ideas have been backed up somewhere or are retrievable, at least.

shadow sharp the wave worn wood

humpbacks -
the depths
we float on

approaching storm
even the gate
has lost its squeak

Here's an old one. Originally published in Presence a couple of years ago.

To celebrate summer, before I jet off to a cooler Australian winter.

Coast Path, Purbeck (Summer)

sun
sea
skylark

green
blue
yellowhammer

doubting
my skills as a parent
I set the moth
free
from the greenhouse

Sent from Catch Notes for Android https://catch.com

no traffic
for the moment, a fox
as still as the night

Ed Button RIP

I know you had unimaginable troubles and I'm sorry that I never actually got to meet you in person. I'll miss your encouragement and devilish, often self-deprecating sense of humour. It's a pity that some personal demons are so parasitic in nature and so unavoidable that their only method of removal also necessitates the end of a life.

A sense of doom made me check your Facebook page. In your own words:

.Automated Greeting:

"Sorry, I don't want to talk right now.
"You can leave a message after the tone
and hope that I call you back."

I don't believe in any sort of afterlife, and I'm pretty sure that you didn't either. If there was, by rights you'd be riding your hog along an eternal coast road, the wind in your hair, a vibrant Jupiter straight ahead.

So long, Ed, and thank you for all the positives and for being a friend.

day off...
the cat gifts me
my favourite blackbird

her head
super-glued back on -
Barbie's plastic smile

doorstep canvassing
the fury
of a small dog


doorstep canvassing -
a small dog's
                   fury


(in honour of the forthcoming county council elections)
version 1 = best - see comments

April 2nd
the snow
still lying




...sorry it's late :-)

with her tongue out
she draws a face
with its tongue out

Thirteen-Bends Road
as usual we argue
the number

signs of life...
potatoes chitting
in the eggbox spaceship

smithereens - echapbook

Smithereens is now available to view here. Simply click on the image on this post to view it in all its page-turning glory.

You can also download it from my issuu.com account.

If you'd like to review it, have any questions, or if you would like a pdf copy emailed to you, please email me: daveserjeant at hotmail dot com or you can leave a comment on this post.

Hope you enjoy...

It's free to read and download, but if you want to part with some cash, please feel free to send it the way of the UK MS Society

coming soon...

I'm currently working on an e-chapbook of my best haiku of 2012.

Everything's sorted and it's in the final draft stage. As soon as I publish it, it'll be posted here, of course.

Stay tuned...

crikey moment

In nearly a year of not writing anything and effectively "retiring" from the haiku "scene", I've found out I've written about 20 haiku... Damn!

details soon (editing underway)...