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Cemetery studies, Cemetery Friends
In the distant past, an archaeologist
Haikuist and storyteller
Three score years and ten
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For not so small 🤩

#SmallPoemSunday

W. S. Merwin - an excerpt from the poem Berryman

<…>
you can't you can never be sure
you die without knowing
whether anything you wrote was any good
if you have to be sure don't write.

Alt includes longer excerpt & commentary. I’ll link the full poem shortly.
November 9, 2025 at 5:21 PM
polling day
the neighbourhood pigeons
are fatter than ever

#haikufeels (vote)
#haiku
November 5, 2025 at 9:35 AM
in an old album
a crystal clear photograph
of smog

#DailyHaikuPrompt #foggy
#senryu #haiku
#micropoetry
November 1, 2025 at 10:33 AM
these foggy mornings
pretending the leaves
are not falling

#DailyHaikuPrompt #foggy
#haiku
November 1, 2025 at 10:22 AM
green and purple
my mother's
schooldays

#PJJournal
#prompt 6 (suffrage)
#senryu

My mother was born after the era of the suffragettes but she always remembered a teacher who came to school every day (in the 1940s) in suffragette colours
October 31, 2025 at 2:55 PM
firework night 
the silence of
the supermoon

#haikufeels (silence)
#haiku
October 31, 2025 at 2:44 PM
(sequence)

at the bottom 
of the pile a book 
of my chess genius 
and sketches of you
before you moved

brushing fragments
of the eraser
off the page
along with
your face

you're still there
in the soft paper
intaglio

#TankaThursday (erase)
#tanka
October 30, 2025 at 2:39 PM
low tide
the memory
memory
of mountain
echoes

#haikufeels (echo)
#haiku
October 28, 2025 at 11:16 AM
our autumn home the deepening dusk

#haikufeels (dusk)
#haiku
#OneLineOctober
October 27, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Trafalgar Day
the crows' nests
are ragged in the wind

#haiku
October 21, 2025 at 8:26 AM
ever since I've grown my limited comprehension

#senryu
#DailyHaikuPrompt (grown)
#haiku
October 21, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Trafalgar Day
dead leaves
choking the roads

#haiku
October 21, 2025 at 7:00 AM
stillness and then the first leaf shifts in the pile

#haikufeels (rustle)
#haiku
October 20, 2025 at 12:20 PM
birthday breakfast
every drop of milk
has curdled

#haiku
October 19, 2025 at 11:39 AM
sequoia
in an English garden
the spectral line
for majesty
and awe

#tanka
#haikufeels (spectral)
October 19, 2025 at 11:24 AM
October sunshine
frying an egg
in rancid butter

#haikufeels (rancid)
#haiku
#poem
#micropoetry
October 16, 2025 at 11:17 AM
is that all? she says
in the half light
turning a pinecone
over and over
in her hand

#TankaThursday (pinecone)
#tanka
#poem
#micropoetry
October 16, 2025 at 11:10 AM
the ease with which the sun sets its climb on all fours til noon

#dailyhaikuprompt (ease)
#haiku
#OneLineOctober
October 16, 2025 at 2:25 AM
hey Mr Keats!
STEM redoubles
the wonder
of the rose

#dailyhaikuprompt (stem)
#senryu #haiku
October 14, 2025 at 12:27 PM
gazing astern tired eyes misread the prompt

#dailyhaikuprompt (stem)
#senryu #haiku
#micropoetry
#OneLineOctober
October 14, 2025 at 11:32 AM
fallen apples the malice of wasps

#dailyhaikuprompt (fallen)
#haiku
#OneLineOctober
October 14, 2025 at 11:10 AM
summer's t-shirt tattered by winter's claws

#haikufeels (tatters)
#haiku
#OneLineOctober
October 14, 2025 at 10:33 AM
spiders serenity is not a word

#haiku
#OneLineOctober
#monoku
#micropoetry
October 12, 2025 at 9:54 AM
when it comes to the crunch Granny Smith for the win

#dailyhaikuprompt (crunch)
#haiku
#OneLineOctober
October 12, 2025 at 9:45 AM
old age does not creep
it's a runaway wagon
dead ahead
carrying the iron heart
of the planet Earth

#haikufeels (creep)
#tanka
October 12, 2025 at 9:10 AM