smoke

market entrance
a thrown down cigarette
still smokes

© gerald england

Composed: Gee Cross, 13th September 2008

Publication

2008 Ackworth born, gone West (Internet)
2009 Haiku Scotland (UK)

Republished as a contribution to Monday Mellow Yellows.

behind green steel

behind green steel
hide scarlet berries
an autumn find

© Gerald England

Composed: Gee Cross, 6th September 2008

Publication

2008 Autumn Haiku.

Republished as a contribution to Friday Fences.

(as21)

Photograph © 1997 Valentin Grigore.

Valentin Grigore who granted me permission to use his photograph is the founder of SARM (Romanian Society for Meteors and Astronomy). Their 2008 project was an Intercontinental Astro-ecological Verse Tournament celebrating the centenary of the first Romanian astronomical society.

The rules were to compose one-line astropoems with maximum 20 syllables, adorned by celestial images as ecologic arguments.

My own contribution was

Hale Bopp's tail hovers another crop of early potatoes

Composed: Gee Cross, 4th August 2008

Publications

2008 Cosmopoetry (Internet)
2008 Ackworth born, gone West (Internet)

Republished as a contribution to Skywatch Friday.

tourists with cameras

which way to turn
always looking through a lens
not seeing

© 2008, gerald england

Composed: Gee Cross, 26th July 2008

Publications

2008 Summer Haiku (Internet)

See my contributions to Stockholm by Plenty.

Republished as a contribution to Our World Tuesday.

(d30)

hilltop
the cyclist pauses
to analyse clouds

© 2008, gerald england

Composed: Gee Cross, 18th July 2008

Publications

2008 Summer Haiku (Internet)
2009 Haiku Scotland (UK)

Republished as a contribution to Skywatch Friday and The Weekend in Black and White.

through a window

I've given up
researching Latin names
now watch the birdies

text & photograph © 2008, gerald england

Composed: Gee Cross, 6th July 2008

Publication

2008 Ackworth Born, Gone West (Internet)

Republished as a contribution to Camera Critters.