A peel of bluebells

Rings in the season

Scent that holds ransom reason.

A constant battle

Of cacophony and song.

Joy can resurface.

Soundscape of meaning:

Kandinsky colours

Bring Joy from darkness.

Heart of the waves: beat.

Wingspan rends heaven and earth

Seabird lives, loves on.

Pickled fruitfulness

Tick tick ticks the heart.

Love’s longing lives here.

Wassily Kandinsky: The Bird

Ode to Joy (not a Haiku!)

Joy is a kitten playing with string.
Joy is a baby as it laughs on a swing.
Joy is a jig, a highland fling.
Joy is the feeling I get when I sing.
Joy is the gift that my children bring.
Joy: the emotion without any sting.

Flushed

Generous Nature
Oft hides her true heart
But still it goes on beating.

A call to prayer

Prayer calls the faithful
To find peace within each day.
Allah, come what may.

Bookends

Bookends in sunlight
Frame another starry night.
Don't dream it's over.

Fallen giant

Fallen giant sleeps,
Crowded by mourners,
Ever in the woodland keep

Bread

Kneading sustenance
Reveals masonic secrets
Baking in the dough.

Housekeeping

Joy of housekeeping:
Never ending tasks
That always need re-doing.

Insomnia

Insomnia creeps
Through the darkened room
Begging "Come look at the moon."

Ice Garden

A gossamer shroud,
Ice veils the garden.
Crows voice their quarrel aloud.

Caged

I made my own cage.

Bars: expectation,

and a ceiling of my fears.

New Beginning

Beginning again
With a book and a pen.
Pages of the year unmarked.

Foggy dawn

Fog falls in the gap
Between night and day
Keeping the sunrise at bay.

A Woman In Gold

Klimt colours carpet the earth,
And the season clothes
Her mother in gold.

Autumn Fall

Like discarded clothing
Leaves gather in piles.
Naked trees stand, shivering.

Birth of Day

A new day hatches
With fire at her seams.
Stain of yolk spreads and rises.

Heavy Clouds

Heavy clouds unlock
Liquidating their assets,
Envelveting green.

Country Lanes

Driving country lanes,

Gloved in evening gold,

Nature's beauty to behold

Fleeting

Childhood's ticking clock;
Now I see the man
I am proud to call my son.