(t5)

dentist's waiting room
in the cherry tree outside
a blackbird sings

© Gerald England

Composed: Gee Cross, 19th January 2003

Publication

2003 Haiga Online (Internet)

*****
camera de asteptare a dentistului
in visinul de afara
o mierla canta

Gerald England

(romaneste par Andrei Dorian Gheorge)

Publication

2003 SARM (Internet)

Turdus Merula

TURDUS MERULA

Four and twenty blackbirds baked in summer drone -
it's a pie!
Four and twenty blackbirds baked out of the pit
breathing traces of the mist.
The ring ouzel echoes the flitterchack;
St. Kevin stretches his songs recalling fledgling dreams.
Someone once upon the saint's hand laid its eggs
and twenty blackbirds baked in men's minds.
The warmth of the ouzel cock is the black of my dream:
in the garden eastward of the ring ouzel cock
the ground holds roots of the herb, Belladonna,
where among brown leaves, the blackbird rustles for insects.
I see his crocus-coloured beak flashing through the fog;
blackbird sings before he smiles,
his mate cries before Candlemas.

© GERALD ENGLAND

Composed: Gee Cross, 16th January, 2003

Publications

2003 Blackbird (USA)
2004 Worm (Internet)

(t4)

sharp frost
on this stark night
sickle moon

© Gerald England

Composed: Gee Cross, 8th January 2003

Publications

2004 Prakalpana Literature (India)
2007 Cosmopoetry (Internet)
2008 Prakalpana World (Internet)

*****
ger ascutit
in aceaasta noapte rigida
secera lunii

Gerald England
(in romaneste de Andrei Dorian Ghorghe)

Publication

2003 SARM astropoezia zilei (Internet)

(t3)

our feet tap
to "The Radetsky March"
yearly encore

© Gerald England

Composed: Gee Cross, 1st January 2003

Unpublished

(t2)

New Year's Day noon
washer on its spin cycle
- "The Blue Danube"

© Gerald England

Composed: Gee Cross, 1st January 2003

Publication

2003 Time Haiku (UK)

(t1)

well past midnight
loudest New Year firework
wakens me again

© Gerald England

Composed: Gee Cross, 1st Janauary 2003

Unpublished

(k62)

before Christmas
the railwaymen on strike
thick fog

© Gerald England

Composed: Gee Cross, 22nd December 2002

Unpublished

Astropoetry on the Peaks

ASTROPOETRY ON THE PEAKS

cocooned in thermal underwear
thick overcoat, scarf and woolly hat
to withstand the biting mountain air

in the valley below we see the lights
of little houses twinkling in the dark
and beyond the next peak
the glow from a distant city

we scale to these dizzy heights
ignore the pain in our necks
gaze in rapture at the Milky Way
pick out the planets from the stars
shining so clearly in the blackness.

© Gerald England

Composed: Gee Cross, 25th November 2002

Publications

2003 Poetry Chain (India)
2007 Famous Poets and Poems (Internet)

*****
ASTROPOEZIE PE PISCURI

clociti in invelisul hainelor termale
palton stufos, esarfa si palarie de lana
spre a rezista aerului muscator de munte

in valea de dedesupt vedem luminile
micilor case sclipind in intuneric
si dincolo de urmatorul pisc
stralucirea unui oras indepartat

ne balansam spre aceste inaltimi ametitoare
ignoram durerea in gaturile noastre
privim fix in fermecarea Caii Lactee
triem planetele dintre stelele
stralucind atat de clar in obscuritate

Gerald England

(in romaneste de Andrei Dorian Gheorghe)

(k58)

taking a shortcut
through the cemetery --
all the fresh flowers

© Gerald England

Composed: Gee Cross, 2nd November, 2002

Unpublished

(k57)

first frost
my shadow crosses the road
in front

Composed: Gee Cross, 19th October 2002

Publication

2003 Time Haiku (UK)

(k56)

a pigeon pecks
on a discarded doughnut
on Town Hall steps

© Gerald England

Composed: Hyde, 11th October 2002

Unpublished

(k54)

bales of hay
at the corner of the field
corncrakes hover

Composed: Southport, 9th September 2002

Unpublished

(k53)

stood alone
by a drainage ditch
grey heron

Composed: Southport, 9th September 2002

Unpublished

(k52)

"ah, shut up"
my son to a baby
mother looks daggers

Composed: Stockport, 4th September 2002

Unpublished

(k51)

country bus
through open window-vents
bits of clipped hedge

Composed: Hayfield, 27th August 2002

Unpublished

(k50)

hearing a dog bark
i rush to let her in
then i remember

Composed: Gee Cross, 11th August 2002

Publication

2003 Bogg (USA)

(k48)

stationery train
we look out at hollyhocks
entwined with nettles

Composed: Bolton, 18th July 2002

Unpublished

No Gas

NO GAS

no gas
no hot running water
in what passes for an english summer
my wife
in her upstairs study
hogs the electric fire
downstairs
I put on an extra sweater
switch off the boring TV
place Johnny Cash in the CD player
dip into an anthology of Chinese poetry
lounge in the lazyboy
sip spring water
and await
the sometime-coming
plumber

© Gerald England

Composed: Gee Cross, 26th June 2002

Publication

2003 The Worm (Internet)

(k47)

afternoon train
individuals
doze

© Gerald England

Composed: Bolton, 10th June 2002

Publication

2003 Time Haiku (UK)

(k46)

midnight services
full moon over Luxembourg
tired tourists eat

© Gerald England

Composed: Luxembourg, 25th May 2002

Unpublished

(k45)

German cafe-bar
to the sound of "Wimoweh"
we eat pancakes

© Gerald England

Composed: Fussen, 23rd May 2002

Unpublished

(k44)

Lake Lugano shore
pretty ladies parade
small dogs on leads

© Gerald England



Composed: Paradiso, 20th May 2002

Unpublished

(k43)

Lake Lucerne
as the hillside climbs
the houses thin

Composed: Lake Lucerne, 19th May 2002

Unpublished

(k41)

walking to the vets
she stops at every tree and bush
there is no walk home

© Gerald England



Composed: Hyde, 18th April 2002

Publications

2002 New Hope International (Internet)
2008 Ackworth born, gone West (Internet)

Six Yorkshire Haiku

wooid stack'd
ahint t'shed
oe'er-ran wi' bahndweed

wheeir t'muck-stacks were
lush trees nah grow
on t'illside

hot efternooin
sheep on t'fells kip
bi a stoan

river agate —
ducks on t'igh bank
waddle i' a lahne

med blahnd
bi t'low Jan'ry sun
Paris ti Hades

ower t'M1
a breet-een'd kestrel
'ovvers

© Gerald England

Composed: Gee Cross, 10th March 2002

Publications

2002 YDS Summer Bulletin (UK)
2004 Aesthetica (UK)
2008 Ackworth born, gone West (Internet)

(k39)

midnight
a wind-blown drinks-can
rattles up the road

© Gerald England

Composed: Gee Cross, 6th March 2002

Publication

2003 Time Haiku (UK)

(k38)

ring-beep-burr-tink
half the bus passengers
reach for their mobiles

Composed: Dukinfield, 25th February 2002

Unpublished

Absolutely

Composed: Gee Cross, 24th February 2002

Publication

2004 FOURTH INTERNATIONAL ANTHOLOGY ON PARADOXISM (Ramnicu-Valcea, Editura Almaron)