Quiet

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countryside, haiku, peace, poetry, silence, traffic

On a peaceful morning

tractor and trailer
distant rattle on farm track
morning’s traffic noise

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Miles

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haiku, nature, peace, poetry, silence

On enjoying the peace

morning, garden bench
wisps of steam from my first cup
I can hear for miles

Cuckoo calls

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birds, cuckoos, haiku, lake, nature, poem, poetry, silence, wildlife

sound carries so far
the lake calm, like a millpond
cuckoos call, Summer

y fwyalchen

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birds, blackbirds, fwyalchen, haiku, honey, melys, nature, ornithology, peace, poetry, silence, song, wales, Welsh

On a Welsh language haiku

can y fwyalchen
melys fel y mel cyntaf
yna, tawelwch

the blackbird’s song
sweet as the first honey
then, silence

silent

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autumn, bird, death, fall, haiku, leaves, mortality, poem, poetry, seasons, silence, song, thrush

under an acer
part hidden by Autumn leaves
a silent song thrush

 

 

Munch

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bucolic, haiku, meadow, morning, peace, petry, poem, sheep, silence

Before sun rises
shadows move across meadow
sounds of sheep, munching

Silence

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bus, children, haiku, poetry, school.street, silence

Morning, ten past eight
school bus harvests  the children
suddenly, silence

sounds

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haiku, hypnotic, peace, peaceful, poem, poetry, rain, silence, sounds, weather

only sounds I hear
rainwater from the downpipes
hypnotic, peaceful

Silence

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boat, fishermen, haiku, lake, noise, osprey, silence, sound, waves

Fishermen, small boat
Osprey in mirrored blue sky
Loud voices make waves

falling

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haiku, nature, pine, pine needles, silence, time, trees, whispers, woods

from the woods, whispers
pine needles by the thousand
falling soft as time