Haiku: Nature 1

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Nature is complex
Beauty’s indefinable
Enjoy what it is

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Haiku: A Question of History

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Winners can claim truth
when history is written?
Then what is the truth?

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Haiku: The Rear Gunner

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Trapped in a tail spin
shot up and bleeding, no hope
What went through your mind?

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Poem: ‘English Blue’ (for the fallen at Hastings and beyond)

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Walk with me
into the grey breaking dawn

where that sticking ridge of blue –
an English blue

rolls on into soft distances
and strange dancing names

Stand with me
by those set whispering stones

in a steadfast line –
a sore English line

of rasping pipes and howling socks
mouthing our memory

like a warning to tomorrow
a land forlorn to all but itself

Then help me to bury him
not on some crying strand –

in firm English land
where hallows’ calls are grounded

our grief laid open
in the whitening bones of heroes

on this high scoured hill

 

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first published in ‘Poetry 24’ June 23 2011

Haiku: Gatekeeper 2

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Deceive me, won’t you;
such looks hook the unwary.
Now sliver away…

 

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