Log

Guitar hands

Leopard

A motto?

The known road was shut -
The 'no' demanded new ways
and other sign posts.

Field

The field, like my coat
Undulates in crinkly brown stripes -
- living cordroy.

Naming

We were named once;
our first gift - in monochrome,
our lives colour us in.

Worm's Head

October weather

Snow in Autumn turns

Gold, white but cuts power,

creating

unusual dark.

"Blogs are terribly 2004"

"Blogs are terribly 2004" was said on the Today programme Oct 23rd 2008.
My response:

Attention problems
Turn blog readers to 'tweetstreams',
perhaps haiku next?

There's always hope!

Financial market comment

Ivy rots good ground:
the Banks' 'borrow fest' mock thrift
and faithful saving.

Brocket Hall

Haiku

Once more, we play
memory's hide and seek,
as we smile,
searching for a name.

St Helier's sandcastle

Haiku

A 'conversation'
of tell, tell, tell, never ask:
A bird with one wing.

BATH

Ms. Hens and Chickens

Lovely finches draw hens

of varied links to Bath,

studded with gorgeous pigs.

Shadows of Austen
Haunt stylish stones clashing with
static traffic jams.

Millau Bridge

Foster spans the Tarn

with iron angels bearing

airy roads on high.

(The Millau Bridge is the highest bridge in the world.)

September

Season of cobwebs,
Daddy-long-legs and decisions:
To clean or leave them?

Touchstone

Precious, black touchstone,
used to test gold, spark hints of
magic chimeras.

Touch on a leaf

Sun stabbing a leaf
Making dull green glow with light;
Stop-see- save the now.

Haiku

Tired walking feet spur fantasies
of the slop and slut of my slippers.

The Seychelles three

The Giant Tortoise

Leathery neck folds

Lead to an ET wizened

Face of our far past.

The Turtle

Eye meets ancient eye

man and turtle each appraise:

wonder meets steel cool.

The Mosquito

Curse the mosquito:

Black,biting,blood sucking beasts

who spread misery.

Gossip

Tittle tattle hurts.
It may be tempting but it
Does not bring sunshine.

Graduation!

Past slog and pain are

Reconciled with true pride as

Achievement's honoured.

Height order

Bottles like soldiers
Regimented to fix and control ....
Hair - not life!

Boats on the Thames

An egret fishing

The snail hunt

Snaking through the dark
The torch beam probes the leaves
Snails beware....death lurks

The unicorn leap

Haiku

Poofed, puffed, preened, pampoured;
preparation is complete
for Crufts or clubbing.

Otter play

Flamingo colour

Japonica

a brooding leopard

Waves at the Scillies

The crescendo builds,

Waves strain to be there first,

Their hold breaks and splinters.

Frothy white droplets

Are slammed on the sand

To regroup and start again.

Their rhythm is foiled

By rocks; in fury they lash

them with spray and ships.

Ammonite

The coil of an ammonite

curls like young bracken

but is trapped in stone.

Haiku

Ideas need to defy gravity,
escape the cage
and soar untamed.

Sunset at the Holt

Wellingtons!

Oh, joy for the black,

green, spotty, stripey wellies

which give rain power!

Monty Don's Japanese Garden

Contemplate seas
of gravel with placed stones
as moments of perception.

Big concepts in small zen spaces:
Tiny acts all have consequences.

Lechlade Church

Mouths open, spewing

Waste for hundreds of years,

The gargoyles have jaw ache.

Double haiku

The walled garden's closed;
Wind and birds have spread the seeds
So 'Wild' lives there now.

Under Arctic ice,
Guarded against polar bears,
A seed bank's been built.

Bins

They're out; black, lined up
Pillars of the pavement,
Waiting to spill our dross.

Lincoln Cathedral

Light brings colour to grey stones,

Let us bring hope to the disenchanted.

Haiku

Points shaved to pinpricks,
Shiny shanks like armour,
The Pencils spike the air.

Walsingham

With or without walls,

The great east end arcs to God,

Still provoking wonder.

Haiku

'Random's' in,
'Wicked's' waning
'Fab' trickles on....
Word fashion's cool, brill, blue!

The door knocker

At sea, dolphin sightings

Enchant,

At home, its thumps

Bring feet running.

Ash Wednesday

A cross of palm ash
Shaped on our foreheads; fire flakes
Handing regret hope.

Weir reflection

Devon Skyline

A Pirton lane

Haiku

Love,faith, truth

Invisible life forces

Sought in beauty, sound and words.

Lobster pots

12th Night

The glitter is gone;
Tomorrows beckon, closing
A year's yesterdays.

The River Teign

Wistman's Wood - Devon

The Grain store light

A cross lit the night
A Christian 'Jack the lantern'
Marking the real road.