the air is blue
as the dust of heron’s wings
dusky storm feathers
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Tag: haiku
Haiku sequence: Haymaking
haymaking
the house fills with the scent
death of grass
night falls
mown meadows aglitter
with fox-red eyes
grass ocean
settles into dead calm
red seawolves prowl
Haibun sequence: Solstice
June 21st is the Fête de la musique. The idea behind its conception in the 1980s was that everyone with a yen to make music could take to the streets and let rip. It was a goodnatured event with amateur sax, accordionists, string quartets, kids school choirs etc setting up on every street corner to do their thing.
Then the bars cottoned on, hired rock and ethnic bands, set up amplis on the pavements, blocked off whole streets for dancing and drinking all night. The event went from being family friendly to being a nightmare for anyone who lives in the centre of town. It’s exam time too, and everyone knows how good a sleepless night is for exam nerves. But, impossible to say anything against the drink/tourist/entertainment industries, so we let the bars and restaurants do as they please.
Today, there is a steady downpour. It never rained ever for the solstice in all the years we lived in town. Ah well. The birds aren’t put off.
solstice rain
a steady drumbeat
peaceful music
Fête de la musique
rain never came to order
to drown the din
summer solstice
in town we longed for rain
to bathe cringing ears
Haiku challenge: Rip & Mend
For Ronovan’s weekly haiku challenge.
Painting: Kryzhitsky_Landscape_with_a_pond
torrents fall
ripping holes in heavy cloud
rain heals drought-cracked earth
Haiku: fragrant breeze
For Frank Tassone’s haikai challenge ‘fragrant breeze’.
in this summer damp
breeze over the meadow
brings the scent of rain
Haiku after the storm
the gale ebbs
meadow littered with jetsam
trees’ shed ballast
Haiku sequence: Hope & dash
For Ronovan’s haiku challenge.
green hope springs
as we hurtle to the edge
a wolf howls
in the wind
the odour of decay
yet beetles dig deep
wolf-howl beetle-delve
two worlds on the cusp of night
and forgetting
