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)...

NaHaiWriMo - August

prompt: healthcare

second opinion...

the glare of sunlight 

on the hospital windows

NaHaiWriMo - August

prompt: Beatles

all night, the earworm -
now in the shaving mirror
I am the walrus

Hello friends

Just a little note to say that I'm going to be lying low for a while. I haven't been feeling well recently and want to concentrate on trying to take it easy by shifting my priorities around a bit.

It's my old monster waking up and making a nuisance of itself again and I need to figure out the right way to go about retaming it.

I haven't been reading or writing that much recently anyway, and I just want to tune out for a while to refresh myself if I can.

I'll be back, but I didn't want people to think I'd disappeared altogether. With a bit of luck I should be back sooner than you think.

Nothing too serious - I'm tired and I just need to recharge...

Regards,
Dave

Fox Dreams

I have three fox related poems included in Aubrie Cox's latest excellent project "Fox Dreams" - a collection of poetry about foxes and/or dreams.

Fox Dreams is now available to download on Yay! Words! - Aubrie's website.

• Visit Fox Dreams on Yay! Words! 

telling her "no!"
her shoulders
listen to the reasons

(for both R and E)

waiting
for results of the biopsy...
     ...her chirpy ringtone

(for D)

one by one
her dolls join her
in sleep

again
swapping the same old stories
both grandads

NaHaiWriMo #29 & #28

prompt: leap day / year

leap day -
on my way back
the busker still silent

and this concludes my NaHaiWriMo contributions for Feb 2012. Prompts continue all year but February is the main month. I may still pop in and out over the year.

The prompt for #28 was to rewrite a computer generated haiku into a passable haiku / senryu. I've had a go, but it isn't great ...

generated "haiku":

rumbling echo gnaws
icicle quarrels hotly
hotly lame

my rewrite:

woken by hunger
I trip down the stairs -
an ice pack from the fridge
to my knee

NaHaiWriMo #27

prompt: an intentionally bad haiku

with a bad haiku
my NaHaiWriMo ends now?
"Bye ev'rybody!"

I was told off for calling my zip haiku bad so I thought I'd give it another go.

NaHaiWriMo #26 & #27

prompt: zip
prompt: an intentionally bad haiku

zip-a-dee-doo-dah
fraying my nerves
your wonderful day

NaHaiWriMo #25

prompt: yellow

talk of redundancies
even the spring bulbs
in corporate colours