The night sky sulks dark;
ill-willed faeries live, love, dance
down deep in the dell.
Polly Stretton © 2020
Monthly Archives: May 2020
Haiku #29
Give me a deep lake
with fish, swans, geese and goslings,
and laughing moorhen.
Polly Stretton © 2020
Haiku #28
Recalling crimplene,
and shock at ‘Room at the Top’,
party line on phones.
Polly Stretton © 2020
Haiku #27
Friday, and it’s time
for a Zoom meeting with my
son and grandson, yes!
Polly Stretton © 2020
Companion Haikus #25 and #26
I will go home when
I find the place that is home.
I belong somewhere.
I found my own home,
wildlife, no light pollution,
peace and belonging.
Polly Stretton © 2020
Haiku #24
Yggdrasill shivers,
the fungus attacks and kills.
They knew about it.
Haiku #23
I see him in clouds
no, no precipitation,
except on my face.
Polly Stretton © 2020
Haiku #22
Lockdown blue lockdown
missing family and friends
glad of video
Polly Stretton © 2020
Haiku #21
What grannie oft’ said
in the past. Her voice echoes,
her sayings will last.
Polly Stretton © 2020
Haiku #20
I dream of roses,
cream blush and a heady scent,
mind the stabbing thorns.
Polly Stretton © 2020
Haiku #19
Grass, bilberries, trees,
all green shoots make me happy.
Nature motivates.
Polly Stretton © 2020
Haiku #18
I am an old spade
my purpose to turn the earth;
discarded, then found.
Polly Stretton © 2020
Haiku #17
Time for dogs to stroll,
sun beats through shade in cedar,
follow-my-leader.
Polly Stretton © 2020
Haiku #16
Lady Grey for me
delicately scented tea
china cup of course
Polly Stretton © 2020
Haiku #15
Caused by a virus
that travelled from overseas
spread through touch and cough
Polly Stretton © 2020
Haiku #14
Soft drizzle hard hail
rainfall takes many guises
all good for gardens
Polly Stretton © 2020
Haiku #13
Light: airy, weightless,
a detectable wavelength
tiny wee photons
Polly Stretton © 2020
Haiku #12
The bee life cycle:
egg, larva, metamorphose,
emerge in springtime
Polly Stretton © 2020
Bumblebee from wired.co.uk
Haiku #11
Earth is dirt is soil
is loam is mud is the ground
Gaia third from Sun
Polly Stretton © 2020
Haiku #10
Painting fence panels,
momentarily my soul
forgets I love wood.
Polly Stretton © 2020
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