Peace

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birds, blackbird, evening, Haiku, meditation, nature, poem, Poetry

soft summer evening
the day pauses before night
blackbird’s song delights

The Hills

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celts, druids, evening, light, lovers, poem, romantic, sunset, wales

(On feeling somewhat Pre-Raphaelite)

 

Fold upon fold of long low hills
between me and the golden evening light
bathed in mists, curved flanks
seem golden garbed limbs at languid ease
lovers lay before the gates of heaven

 

(With these sunsets and the atmosphere of the place,
it is easy to see why these hills have long been considered mystical.
The ancient celts carved the standing stones of
Stonehenge here before transporting them to Wiltshire.
Rejects, part shaped rectangles, still litter the hillsides.)

 

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pale

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evening, fox, haiku, moon, peace, poem, poetry

waiting for the moon
on this palest of evenings
somewhere, a fox calls

Parent

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bird, dusk, evening, food, haiku, hunting, light, parenting, poem, robin

Evening shadows fall
Still the robin hunts the lawn
Hard working parent

smoke

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calm, evening, farm, haiku, smoke, weather, woodsmoke

The farm down the hill
has a column if wood smoke
undisturbed by breeze

Dusk

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birds, dusk, evening, haiku, murmuration, nature, starlings, wildlife

Another grey dusk

The air fills with coffee grouts

Starlings heading home

 

rainbow

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beauty, evening, haiku, rainbow, sky, summer, sunset

just before sunset
sublime yellow, golden sky
vertical rainbow

homeward bound

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birds, dusk, evening, haiku, mists, nature, ravem

slow, soft black wings beat
through damp curling mists at dusk
raven, heading home

yard arm

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beer, evening, haiku, humour, sunset, tradition, yard arm

Sun heads for the west
Dipping over the yard arm
clink of beer glass

haiku – evening

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evening, honeysuckle, nature, senses

Scented evening air,
heavy with honeysuckle.
My senses are filled.