Haiku

pink twinkling lights
entwined with silver lace vine
British fall back time

2 x haiku

1.
perimenopause -
punnet of peaches labelled
ripen in a bowl

2.
tangle of barbed wire
Virginia creeper's red spread
Cabbage white flies by

Irises make me happy

I planted a bulb 3 years ago and this is the first time it has flowered. I am posting a poem I wrote in 2000 in celebration.

 For Ogawa Shushiki 1669 – 1725

Iris colours bloom
Twenty-first century home
Visions of Heaven.

Dreamer of my dream
Haiku and cookie mistress
Long ago Japan.

Kakitsubata*
Eternal for the poet
Woken from life’s dream.

Wait in the iris garden
‘Til our purple lips shall kiss.

* Kakitsubata – Rabbit-eared iris

Haiku

strawberry iced air

contrails crossing low sunbeams

helicopter crash