pulling weeds
the sound of a man
blowing his nose

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Rosemary Flowers

a child shouts
'coming ready or not'
rosemary flowers

Paul Conneally

MR HAIKU at RAMM Feburay 2006

Spent today collating work done by children and their families in workshop with me as MR HAIKU at Exeter's Royal Albert Memorial Museum back in Febuary. That day was enlivened even further by the presence in addition to MR HAIKU of poet Alan Summers. The workshops were geared up to encourage new ways of interpretation of artefacts in a very traditional museum gallery in this case the stuffed animal gallery - via poetry.... I'll share back some here at a future date -in the meantime here's a couple:

a barn owl glides
through the starlit sky
grasping claws

Steffanie Griffiths

beautiful tiger
people are talking about
poetry

Poppy

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last home match
of the season
a mexican wave


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A Trip to Calke Abbey

Easter Monday and a trip to Calke Abbey. Since my father-in-law's stroke the house itself is impossible for us to visit and so we make for the walled gardens. Noel gets a lift on what appears to be a converted golf buggy driven by a National Trust volunteer. We walk.

Spring has been cold and all growth is a good two weeks or so behind what we've come to expect. A few plants, gooseberry and red currants, are coming into leaf but most of the beds are freshly tilled and bare.

the auricula theatre
staged with pansies
dad's wheelchair

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we walk hand in hand
my jacket on her shoulders
through the day's last light
lobster pots and sweet whitebait
the keepers of cormorants

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a single siskin
at the feeding station
blue violas

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easter saturday
the year's first mowings
in a plastic bag

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First Dandelion

first dandelion
my son beats me
at swingball

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Showery Day

showery day

girls run for the shelter

of Top Shop

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The picture is "Three Girls in the rain" by Kuniyoshi an Ukiyo-e woodblock print.

here's a link to a piece that made me think of the print again

A Rockery Wren

a rockery wren
stakes out her territory
blue aubrietia

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Midnight's Kiss

midnight's kiss
the slow up and down
of my son's chest

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Palm Sunday

palm sunday
a scattering of hailstones
in the wheelbarrow

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A Broken Bottle

a broken bottle
in the playground
gorse flowers

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My Inner-self

my inner-self
repeats on me
pepperami

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Daffodil Wind

a daffodil wind
just one magpie
in the flat field

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Stopped

stopped in my tracks
by a small bird's singing
this spring breeze

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