Lent Challenge - week 5

M1 Junction 9

Beneath the wheat lies

our past: a pagan temple,

                  Shapes seen from the air.          21.3

Tilt the earth more and

the Sahara's green,

               twist a knee and freedom's lost.     22.3

Some words damage us

churn like leaves in a whirlpool

                        killing confidence.                 23.3

Great poster, smart words

A call to passing eyes:

                     "Write more poetry".            24.3

Dew lights each thread,

the death trap sparkling its lure

                         greedy for victims.                        25.3

Walls divide people,

paper ripped in two

                    Forgiveness the new mountain.            26.3

May flowering in March

Hosepipe bans in April but

                       The sun makes us smile.                 27.3

Lent Challenge Week 4

Our lemon tree bears one lemon

in mottled green,

-a year's growth-

                              but Time perfects!                14.3.12

Church Cleaning

Sewn hassocks tell stories:

often done in memory

                                 always in love.                 15.3.12

Wind through tissue paper,

responses to a picture,

                                 Ideas take root.                  16.3.12  

After the funeral

Stark against the hillside

stands a white deer amongst brown,

                               Spirits lift to joy.                   16.3.12

Millennium window Great Malvern

Dawn touches sunset

Bringing fire to stained glass art,

                        Time, in a moment.               17.3.

Ruth

"Where you go, I shall go"                      

Love and trust walk together,

                          Faith truly blessed.               18. 3              

We basked in the sun

the red admiral and me

                       sharing our delight.                 19.3.

Disabled

Weigh up the distance

Balance pain against the Gain:

                 a fractured glass choice.           20.3

Lent Challenge - week 3

Spurs versus Stevenage

Expected to lose,

cheered to win, to defy fate

                            and give us all hope.                7.3.12

Journey to work

Pink against the brown

bald, stark tree-lines are softened:

                          blossom has arrived.               8.3.12

Crouched in fear, victims

cringe with each bombardment as

                           Syria self -harms.                 9.3.12

Figures in a field,

caressing it like lovers,

                    detecting the past.              0.3

Pause a moment

Underground posters

ask for ‘acts of kindness’.

Are they so rare that

we have to log them?

Or, is it to make us stop

-          reconsider –

     ask ourselves

When did I last act kindly?

In our beleaguered world,

where price is all,

kind acts cost nothing

but thought and acting upon it.

Perhaps the posters seek celebration

                   of a more selfless world.                11.3      

Dark and fraught with stuff

handbags are pits, deceiving

                        hands groping for keys.               12.3

Standing in a Square

full of squares, in black and white

                     I move like a knight.                     13.3

                   

Lent Challenge Week 2

Mixed Motives

Lurking in shadows

lie 'not so good' reasons for

                           apparent selflessness.             28.2.12

Booby

Muscles tense, shock,stare,

confirm: my blunder is stark

                          -tummy knots tighten.              29.2.12  

Vapour trails scar the sky

Blue tits dart to and fro,

but

                          both have purpose.                1.3.12

Skeins of mist strata

the dawn landscape of Malvern

                      and - problem solving.             2.3.12

Encounter near Royston

Twice a day he walked

the green lane; between, in danger

                          he cleaned metals.                3.3.12

Angela R.I.P.

Snow on a sunflower,

Disabled, but no self pity,

                     She enhanced life.           4.3.12

The Dictator's journey

Fight

Freedom

- for the people

Win

Power

Enjoy

Me

                   Stay, at all costs.         5.3.12

"No nectar", the bee moans

only barren blooms

              of futile greenhouse stock.   6.3.12

Lent Challenge

This year I have given myself the challenge of writing a haiku everyday and putting the results on my blog. The results I suspect will be varied in quality especially as the weeks pass!
Week 1 

Loved objects, playthings,

distractions, edge my desk and

                            prick memory wells.                  22.2.12

Lent

Take on or give up?

Practice self discipline and

                                touch the desert.                     23.2.12

M5

Light skies silhouette

God's spires, giving permanence

                                To our rushing world                   24.2.12

Malvern Priory

Low down and sheltered

lies the towered ship of souls,

                                        drawing climbers' eyes.                           25.2.12

Anne Knotsford

She's knelt in prayer now

for centuries: is her faith

                                    a true memorial?                        26.2.12

Demure snowdrop heads

droop, crocus smile to the sun

                                 Daffodils fire forth.                        27.2.12

Mixed motives

Lurking in shadows

lie 'not so good' reasons for 

                                 apparent selflessness.                     28.2.12