by Helen Ivory | Feb 16, 2015 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
Late Hunt On a day this cold, you don’t even need the shotgun. They’re easy to spot, too, those beautiful birds dying in the tumbled stubble of harvest. Find their long tail feathers riffling prairie wind and you can take them alive out of little...
by Helen Ivory | Feb 11, 2015 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
Still Life I can see them, tweeting furiously as the slogans rise and fall, in ghazal-like cadences. It’s chaotic, the only discipline being the hashtag. The police are far better organised of course — in rows behind their bamboo shields, their...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 9, 2014 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
Circles Haikus inspired by the macarons of Patisserie Madeleine, Edinburgh ….. Here’s Fleur d’Oranger, Saffron Pistache, Sakura. Instead of breakfast. ….. Fleur d’Oranger The orchard’s wingspan. A child is hula hooping in the evening sun....
by Helen Ivory | Nov 5, 2014 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
No Neighbours that We Know of Around Here my husband smiles in his sleep I could spend the rest of my life here then he rolls over, settling back to slow, calm breathing. this house is echoing-empty. wind rips up the valley, up this hill, beneath...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 28, 2014 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
Haiku shadow boxing will I come out a better person * crimson leaved … the Japanese maple becomes my sunset * new moon knows the secret of letting go Caroline Skanne is a poet, originally from Sweden,...
by Helen Ivory | Sep 11, 2014 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
Haiku gravel in my knees from the pilgrimage to you your gentle tweezers * gradual rain pattering the willow leaves her hand slips from mine * purple night clouds buffeting under moonlight her lingering scent * under winter clouds the old rook...
