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distant lightning is one year old today.

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silence
just the wind picking up
distant lightning

('Light' - BHS anthology 2006)
not one of my best, but it gave this blog it's name.

I have just uploaded my Limboland sequence as a pdf haiga at Scribd: http://www.scribd.com/doc/27711229

lullaby
she reaches
to feel each word



(Published: Heron's Nest X:1)

With my *ahem!* scientific background, the following quote resonates with me. I thought readers of this blog might also appreciate it:

"Although it is a grand achievement to have added but one jot or tittle to the sum of human knowledge it is grander still to have added a thought. It is best for a man to try to be both poet and naturalist—not to be too much of a naturalist and so overlook the beauty of things, or too much of a poet and so fail to understand them or even perceive those hidden beauties only revealed by close observation."

From the "Journal of a Disappointed Man" by W.N.P. Barbellion

his dates end
where hers begin -
for a moment
she rests to read
the park bench epitaph



I am just wondering if memorial benches are a peculiarly British thing.

stargazing
with my daughter -
an aircraft
joins   the   dots
of Orion's belt




published: Blithe Spirit 19:4 (current issue)

my earliest memory
cradled
her hair just out of reach -
now the look on her face
as she doesn't say goodbye



like everything else on this blog - work in progress. Been thinking about my Mum a lot lately. Could do with a cup of tea and a catch-up sometimes. Ho hum... so it goes.

flying
full volume -
the rumblestrip drumrolls


(been listening to Sonic Youth a lot on my way to/from work - tearing down long straight country roads)

one by one
the fag breaks end -
the taxis inch forward




(NB: for overseas readers, UK slang - fag = cigarette)

three years on
she still gets about -
my late mother

first day at work
a man with the same car
nods hello



[published: Blithe Spirit 17:2]

growing unrest -
on the baby monitor
lightning static



[published: "Storm" - British Haiku Society anthology - 2007]

(currently selling these monitors on eBay)

streetlights -
at the window your silhouette
watches the snow

night frost
aircraft strobe lights
amongst the stars


[published: Simply Haiku 6:4]

city park -
each icy puddle
kicked into shards

blackbird dusk -
next door's cat
mooching home

au revoir Simply Haiku

I'll miss you!

No news as of yet on the Simply Haiku website but the archives and search facility are to stay live apparently.

Always sad to see the passing of a quality journal.

Tinywords

Hello and season's greetings!

my Christmas haiga is on Tinywords today 

autumn's end -
from somewhere on the allotments
whistling

this year
the Christmas lights blue
on the council's tree