(p7)

shopping village cold rain beats down down

© Gerald England

Composed: Gee Cross, 27th February 2006

Publication

2006 Ukku Spring Haiku (Internet)

(p6)

February tree rat on neighbour's fence

© Gerald England

Composed: Gee Cross, 21st February 2006

Publication

2006 Ukku Spring Haiku (Internet)

(p5)

spring morning worms are where the ouzel waits

© Gerald England

Composed: Gee Cross, 22nd February 2006

Publication

2006 Ukku Spring Haiku

Hiding Place

HIDING PLACE

From his hiding place
he looks through a window
where snow flurries flicker
forming the logo for
agoraphobics anonymous.

No car sits now
on the cracked-up drive
ready to be leapt into
and driven for miles
into the hills for escape

He wanders the world
punching postcodes
into Google Earth
or planning a route
from Tblinsk to Timbuktu.

Deleting countless spams
filling the dishwasher
updating the anti-virus
microwaving lunch
all necessary chores.

Yet once in a while
intrepid he flees away
finds another sun
digitally captures
colours and moods.

And on his return
shares moments of rapture
with the thousands
who hide behind
their own little windows.

© GERALD ENGLAND

Composed: Gee Cross, 22nd February 2006

Publication

2011 Envoi (UK)

(p3) as the yokel said to the tourist

as the yokel said to the tourist

if you want to get there
you shouldn't really start
from here!

© Gerald England

Composed: Gee Cross, 20th February 2006

Publication

2006 Ukku Spring Haiku

(p2)

out of Manchester spring is ahead somewhere

© Gerald England

Composed: Gee Cross, 20th February 2006

Publication

2006 Ukku Spring Haiku (Internet)

(p1)

spring fever
leads to hiccoughs
unthinking

© Gerald England

Composed: Gee Cross, 20th February 2006

Publication

2006 Ukku Spring Haiku

(tn15)

island marina where the ships don't pass wild flowers

© Gerald England

Composed: Gee Cross, 17th February 2006

Publication

2006 Ukku Spring Haiku (Internet)

(tn14)

conveyor belt
a horde of humans pass
the penguins watch

© Gerald England

Composed: Reina Sofia, 8th February 2006

Unpublished

(tn13)

red sailboat at the side of the motorway by a bus stop

© Gerald England

Composed: Abede, 7th February 2006

Publications

2006 The Sons of Camus Writers International (Canada)
2007 Ackworth born, gone West (Internet)

(tn12)

overcoats strewn on hotel lobby cases the weather back home

© Gerald England

Composed: Playa de las Americas, 7th February 2006

Publication

2007 Ackworth born, gone West (Internet)

(tn11)

February night
next to the tropical moon
Mars clearly

© Gerald England

Composed: Playa de las Americas, 5th February 2006

Publication

2006 Time Haiku (UK)
2006 Meetings in Dejhagascar (Internet)

*****
Noapte-n februarie
langa Luna tropicala
Marte clar

-Gerald England (U.K.)-

(in romaneste de Andrei Dorian Gheorghe)

Publication

2006 Festivalul de Cosmopoezie (Internet)

(tn10)

hillside terraces hang uncultivated between land-slips

© Gerald England

Composed: Las Portelas, 5th February 2006

Publication

2007 Ackworth born, gone West (Internet)

(tn9)

among dunes across the old crater snow and stones

© Gerald England

Composed: El Portillo, 5th February 2006

Publications

2006 Time Haiku (UK)
2007 Ackworth born, gone West (Internet)

(tn8)

forest of fir
looking down on white cloud
a pine cone falls

© Gerald England

Composed: Vilafor, 5th February 2006

Publication

2006 The Sons of Camus Writers International (Canada)

(tn7)

the two girls lay down towels to claim their poolside places

© Gerald England

Composed: Playa de las Americas, 5th February 2006

Unpublished

(tn6)

on the roof outside the nudist zone topless sunbathers

© Gerald England

Composed: Playa de las Americas, 4th February 2006

Publications

2006 The Sons of Camus Writers International (Canada)
2007 Ackworth born, gone West (Internet)
2007 Ginyu (Japan)