Tag: Garden
Photograph: Two’s Company
Photo: Ayscoughfee Hall and Gardens, Spalding
Haiku from a Photograph: ‘Ice House’
Selves isolated
A weary world is on hold
Thoughts from a bunker
copyright Francis Barker 2020
Morning Haiku: Prison Earth
If earth is our home
we treat it like a prison
It is our garden
copyright Francis Barker 2020
Tanka: We
When the earth was young
We were put in a garden
We had abundance
We messed it all up big time
We still live the aftermath
copyright Francis Barker 2019
Poem: The Garth
The accolades like garlands
all around you,
each flower of the palette
in your soul
I saw suns glint in violet eyes,
such rare colour,
your rose petal smiles
on dew laden sward
You drew me pastel people,
tore them to pieces,
casting high like confetti
in a lavender breeze
Your delicate hand would
demand I take it,
frog march me around
your patchwork garth
We’d sit in white stillness
at Indian summer’s end,
our toes dangling in pools
of murky green
And when the grey winds came
soughing demons around us,
you closed that rickety gate
toward Michaelmastide.
copyright Francis Barker 2019