Battle

Tags

age, ageing, cliffs, coast walking, gravity, haiku, poem, poetry, time, wales

(cliff walking, West Wales)

Once I ran these cliffs
Now, gravity fights my steps
Time, the battlefield

Dragon

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beach, coast path, dragons, haiku, holidays, humour, sunshine, wales

a stoney Welsh beach
basking in the May sunshine
see, there be dragons

Arrivals

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birds, Capetown, haiku, migration, South Africa, swallows, wales

Hey, down in Capetown
The swallows are back in Wales
Thought I’d let you know

Headlands

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clouds, haiku, headlands, Irish Sea, poem, poetry, sea, storm, wales, weather

Fingers of headlands
stretch out to the western sea
silver clouds say, ‘Storm.’

Born Free

Tags

albatross, arctic tern, birds, haiku, taxidermy, wales

 

In a West Wales bar
two long distance travellers
in sad confinement

Weather Vane

Tags

Aberaeron, birds, haiku, ornithology, rooks, sea, wales, weather, weathervane, west wales, wind

Staring out to sea
A rook on a weather vane
Where away the wind?

Travellers

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birds, Capetown, haiku, migration, South Africa, swallows, wales, Welsh

Hey there, in Capetown

Keep an eye out for swallows

Arriving from Wales

Celts

Tags

Boudica, celts, haiku, Prince of Wales, rugby, sport, wales, warriors, Welsh

 

Under twelve’s rugby
Boudicca or Llewelyn
Would know their faces

water lilies at Bosherton

Tags

Bosherton, coast path, dragon flies, haiku, holidays, Pembrokeshire, Stackpole, summer, wales, water lilies, Welsh

 

 

dragonflies dipping
carpets of water lilies
essence of summer

Coast path flower fields

Tags

bees, Bosherton, coast path, haiku, Pembrokeshire, summer, wales, wild flowers

 

open cliff top walk
carpeted by wild flowers
bees love the seaside