Is it possible
To have too many haiku?
Me, I don't think so.
LF
If I could under-
stand what the purpose is for
I might just do them.NK
Smells wintry. Just needs
A dash of Esso Blue and
Whiff of anthracite.LF
It’s always the paws
of the lynx that
fill me with awe.Anna Feruglio Dal Dan
Deer across the river –
heard a woodpecker and spied
a nameless bird of prey
at the junction of two streams.
@maximpetergriff
Elephant seal sleepover.
The weird sky with the tiny red sun
Is due to smoke from forest fires.@marcusfairs
It's the weekend baby,
you know what that means.
Time to buy precisely one courgette on the way home
because you're an adult I guess.@RopesToInfinity
I have discovered an interesting toadstool,
the colour of natural beeswax,
shaped like a small bowl
and about three inches across. I shall look it up.
Unfortunately it has been growing
on the bathroom carpet.
LW
LW
Tricia has gone to buy
Root veg and cream cakes.
I’m in the car
Listening to Akhnaten.AJB
The stormwater retention pond in the rain.
Black willows, and all the reflective gray
in the world.Elizabeth Bastos
Somehow fog makes
Back areas photogenic.
On right: fallen gutter
Which no-one is ever
Going to repair.ET
Such light,
and the mist rolling in
to hem the landscape.@gilliandarley
Such otherworldly skies,
and in the park,
a stretch of mist
like a forgotten scarf. Festive Kat Brown @katbrown
Inside ancient amber,
palaeontologists find tiny dinosaur feathers —
and also some little ants. Science News
Ladybird clinging
to the ceiling like
a spot of blood.Alex Paknadel
It is typical that seven wild swans
will fly over your head
when the camera's batteries have run out.
They may have been looking for
someone to sew nettle shirts.
I'm not volunteering. LW
There are several green parrots
nesting in the ombues
outside my bedroom window.
The sound they make
is very far from being tuneful.PMcD/LF
Two peacocks on a wall.
Where they should not have been,
but hey! Peacocks.
LW
LW
Moon is strong enough to walk by
and casts a shadow from my body
on the silvery dune grass.Quintin Lake
Back from Cornwall.
Cormorant flying alongside the train
at Teignmouth for half a mile or so.ohn Grindrod
Why does the ticking
of a clock get louder
after midnight?
AJB
Woke from a series of visions
AJB
Woke from a series of visions
about a vast, silent ship made of ice
gliding slowly through the dark
towards earth. Spooky Toad @FrogCroakley
Interlaced AngloSaxon birds
gnash their horrible teeth
as they grip each others' legs
on St Chad's Gospels.Susan Oosthuizen
Just bumped my head
on the low flying moon.John Grindrod
Great Apes
Before we were us
We were them
And we still are.Paul Harland
Don't glamourise evil,
Or it will creep up on us
Like its shabby self.
MB/LF
Absolute peace in the city.
The absence of noise...
But for the soft tap of keys to type this...EY
Condensation, dew,
Daddy-Long-Legs,
windfall apples, fading light.I'm 63 and Back To School
still puts a sliver of ice
in my heart. Brr.
@IanMartin
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