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Spider Plant – a weird photo I took earlier
I was trying to capture the dewdrops on a lupin leaf as inspiration for a haiku, but it looks more like a green tarantula! If you click on the pic it’s scarier! tarantula - dewdrops trapped in lupin...
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Marilyn, The Crow, Hannibal, The Joker et al
“Boys and girls of every age Wouldn’t you like to see something strange? Come with us and you will see This, our town of Halloween This is Halloween, this is Halloween Pumpkins scream in the dead of...
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‘Carlingford Lough’– published on Every Day Poets today
One of my favourite sights in the whole world is the dawning of a new day over Carlingford Lough. Now I may be a tad biased here, as it was the view from my bedroom window throughout childhood, but I...
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One step for mankind…
My little poem, ‘One step for mankind’ is featured on Every Day Poets this week. I wrote it in response to the above photo, an ‘everyday inspiration’ prompt on the site. Growing up in Warrenpoint,...
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Best of Bulgaria
Eastern Europe is not a destination I would automatically have thought of when planning a holiday, but I’m really pleased I took up the offer of an apartment by the Black Sea for fifteen days in July....
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Percussion
Percussion platinum pond surface drum-skin taut a water boatman beats his silent tatoo This poem was inspired by childhood Saturdays when we used to collect frogspawn at Campbell’s Pond in...
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Muse India – Triveni feature
“In Hindu tradition, Triveni refers to the confluence of three major rivers, the Ganga, the Yamuna and the Saraswati, at a place called Prayag. But here at Muse India, it signifies the coming together...
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The role of ‘fusoku-furi’ in the art of photo haiku
FURTHER UPDATE: I was excited to learn over the Christmas holidays that my entry in the January episode of the award-winning Japanese TV programme HAIKU MASTERS won Haiku Master of the Month. Haiku...
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Of giants and dwarves…
UPDATE! My haibun, ‘Finding Narnia’ inspired by this grove of twelve redwoods in Kilbroney Forest Park, Rostrevor, is featured in the January edition of Contemporary Haibun Online. Original Post…...
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