Gerald England: Collected Poetical Works

(t4)

2012-01-29T03:00:00.001Z

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)

2012-01-28T02:00:00.001Z

our feet tap
to "The Radetsky March"
yearly encore

© Gerald England

Composed: Gee Cross, 1st January 2003

Unpublished

(t2)

2012-01-27T01:00:00.001Z

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)

2012-01-25T23:00:00.002Z

well past midnight
loudest New Year firework
wakens me again

© Gerald England

Composed: Gee Cross, 1st Janauary 2003

Unpublished

(k62)

2012-01-24T21:50:00.002Z

before Christmas
the railwaymen on strike
thick fog

© Gerald England

Composed: Gee Cross, 22nd December 2002

Unpublished

Astropoetry on the Peaks

2012-01-23T11:00:00.000Z

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)

2012-01-22T09:00:00.000Z

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

© Gerald England

Composed: Gee Cross, 2nd November, 2002

Unpublished

(k57)

2012-01-21T08:00:00.001Z

first frost
my shadow crosses the road
in front

Composed: Gee Cross, 19th October 2002

Publication

2003 Time Haiku (UK)

(k56)

2012-01-20T07:00:00.000Z

a pigeon pecks
on a discarded doughnut
on Town Hall steps

© Gerald England

Composed: Hyde, 11th October 2002

Unpublished

(k54)

2012-01-19T06:00:00.000Z

bales of hay
at the corner of the field
corncrakes hover

Composed: Southport, 9th September 2002

Unpublished

(k53)

2012-01-18T05:00:00.000Z

stood alone
by a drainage ditch
grey heron

Composed: Southport, 9th September 2002

Unpublished

(k52)

2012-01-17T04:00:00.000Z

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

Composed: Stockport, 4th September 2002

Unpublished

(k51)

2012-01-16T03:00:00.000Z

country bus
through open window-vents
bits of clipped hedge

Composed: Hayfield, 27th August 2002

Unpublished

(k50)

2012-01-15T02:00:00.000Z

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

Composed: Gee Cross, 11th August 2002

Publication

2003 Bogg (USA)

(k48)

2012-01-14T01:00:00.000Z

stationery train
we look out at hollyhocks
entwined with nettles

Composed: Bolton, 18th July 2002

Unpublished

No Gas

2012-01-12T23:00:00.000Z

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)

2012-01-11T22:00:00.000Z

afternoon train
individuals
doze

© Gerald England

Composed: Bolton, 10th June 2002

Publication

2003 Time Haiku (UK)

(k46)

2012-01-10T21:00:00.001Z

midnight services
full moon over Luxembourg
tired tourists eat

© Gerald England

Composed: Luxembourg, 25th May 2002

Unpublished

(k45)

2012-01-09T20:00:00.000Z

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

© Gerald England

Composed: Fussen, 23rd May 2002

Unpublished

(k44)

2012-01-08T19:00:00.000Z

Lake Lugano shore
pretty ladies parade
small dogs on leads

© Gerald England

Composed: Paradiso, 20th May 2002

Unpublished

(k43)

2012-01-07T18:00:00.000Z

Lake Lucerne
as the hillside climbs
the houses thin

Composed: Lake Lucerne, 19th May 2002

Unpublished

(k41)

2012-01-05T08:00:00.000Z

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

2012-01-04T05:00:00.000Z

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)

2012-01-03T04:00:00.000Z

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

© Gerald England

Composed: Gee Cross, 6th March 2002

Publication

2003 Time Haiku (UK)

(k38)

2012-01-02T03:00:00.000Z

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

Composed: Dukinfield, 25th February 2002

Unpublished

Absolutely

2012-01-01T00:00:00.000Z

Composed: Gee Cross, 24th February 2002

Publication

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

(k35)

2011-12-29T17:00:00.001Z

between extremists
gallons of bath water flow
filled with thrown babies

© Gerald England

Composed: Gee Cross, 3rd February 2002

Unpublished

(k34)

2011-12-28T15:00:00.000Z

murky weather
in a feed full of sheep
seagulls gather

© Gerald England

Composed: Bolton, 25th January 2002

Unpublished

England's Openers

2011-12-27T13:25:00.000Z

A blackbird lands
A good beer-barrel
A man sits in a cave knitting
A theatre in Copenhagen
Abask the sea-wall
Alice was demure and O
All the way to Bury
Amid the heather
Among the lupins
And after little suzie
And it was his grief that kept him travelling
And the baby miscarried
And the gulls woke me at half past
Apple bread, champagne dip, Easter egg,
As a clashing cymbal in the discordant darkness of the night
At the Bay at the Back of the Ocean

Bare midrifs above belt-like skirts
Bedraggled daffodils line the lanes
Belladonna is unlucky
Beyond the wooded embankment home
Big Irma

Child lost in big store
Come to our raveup in York they said

Damn the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation
Deeply Katy threw her dress open
Dementia patients ramble on the freeway of her face
Don't smother the fire, mother

Everyone's going to heaven

First catch your crow
Friendly face peeping

Gillamoor looked great that day
Going to Glimps Holm

Hair dressed up in curlers
Have you ever watched a snail
He, bold, brassy, Geordie

I carry the weight of the world on my back
I do not like telephones
I got some tissues with my coffee yesterday
I knew of your visit to the blacksmith
I was a teenage werewolf
I was taking about Cleopatra
If God is dead

Kettle on coal fire
Knickerless Nicola

Labeled with a sticker on our lapels
Leaving Oldham
Lesbian bodies take advantage of patient work
Lost down country lanes

Moo
My son builds with his Lego
My wife is talking

Nodding drowsily against his winter habit

On the far side of Hope
One corner of the tarmaced field
Outside the X-ray
Overwhelmed like fish

Poor Peter
Possum roadkill

Queen Victoria

Real nude women mourned new ale
Re-listening to sixties protest songs
Rent a bench
Reproduction strictly prohibited

Sat in the car on Royd Moor Lane
Sharing its route with slow canals
She is Mother England
Sheep suckle their lambs
Skin was slit like the opening of an envelope
Sleet at the window
So this is Brighton
Somewhere I saw a South-West wind
Sunday-morning sex

The Arrival of the Queen of Sheeba
The dog dodges puddles in the road
The fox comes nightly to her garden
The geese do not know which way to turn
The taps are dripping all over the city
The wind that whistles over Oldham Edge
There hadn't always been a rainbow
There were several entrances
This is a multi-part poem in MIME format
Through the windy pass

Up Ingleborough

Victims of the bottle

We had a very quiet Christmas
When Margaret first met Malcolm
Why are your poems so full of country images

Yeah, yeah, I know what I said
You said you wanted to live

© Gerald England

Composed: Gee Cross, 23rd January 2002

Publication

2007 Famous Poets and Poems (Internet)

(k32)

2011-12-26T11:00:00.000Z

at Deansgate Station
by a floodlit poster
a lone woman waits

© Gerald England

Composed: Gee Cross, 9th January 2002

Unpublished

(k30)

2011-12-25T09:00:00.000Z

taking the crib down
my son calls it a horse
-- the donkey

© Gerald England

Composed: 6th January 2002

Unpublished

(zip 1)

2011-12-24T08:00:00.000Z

the thawing rain /\/\/\/\/\ underfoot
___ sheets of ice _________ remain

© Gerald England

Composed: Gee Cross, 6th January 2002

Publication

2004 Raw NerVZ (Canada)

(k29)

2011-12-23T07:00:00.000Z

coach journey
missing the scenery
by reading haiku

© Gerald England

Composed: between Manchester & Liverpool, 22nd December 2001

Publication

2003 Time Haiku (UK)

(k28)

2011-12-22T06:00:00.000Z

December morning
though we shiver with frost
the low sun blinds

© Gerald England

Composed: Gee Cross, 15th December 2001

Publication

2002 ROMANIAN CONTEMPORARY ASTROPOETRY 2002 (Bucharest, SARM)

*****
decembrie dimineata
desi tremuram de ger
soarele palid orbeste

Gerald England
(in romaneste de Andrei Dorian Gheorghe)

Publication

2001 Sarm Newsletter (Romania)

The Labyrinth

2011-12-21T05:00:00.000Z

THE LABYRINTH

On the far side of Hope
ears pop;
my head spins.

Queuing for water
from the town well,
winds from up the dale
blow in one ear,
exit less coolly.

At the top of Long Hill
we rest;
views of the valley
are but a misty panorama.

I feed on a bacon butty,
drink hot black unsweetened tea.

The journey home
will be fraught with uncertainty;
not all traffic lights
turn green on approach.

© Gerald England

Composed: Gee Cross, 23rd November 2001

Publication

2004 Aesthetica (UK)

October Forecast

2011-12-20T03:00:00.000Z

OCTOBER FORECAST

“Bright with sunny periods
some cloud, occasional showers”
says the local TV forecast.

It has been persistently precipitating
for more than twelve hours.

On the doorstep
a soggy mass of pulp
is all that is left
of my note to the milkman.

The dog wags her tail
in a desperate message;
I open the back door,
she steps out,
stops,
looks round,
then dashes for the nearest
patch of green,
does that she has to do.

Back inside,
the hearthrug
doubles as a towel.

Only an incoming aircraft
breaks the greyness
of the birdless sky.

Outside my window,
the sodden rosebush
drips.

© Gerald England

Composed: Gee Cross, 26th October 2001

Publications

2002 Curlew (UK)
2007 Famous Poets and Poems (Internet)

Passing On

2011-12-19T02:00:00.000Z

PASSING ON

(for Gail and her mother)

"grandma has no pulse"

the boy hugs his mother
tears flood
forming a river
that crosses
continents and oceans

strength passes
between young and old

a mother's passion
nurtures
a daughter's spirit
nourishes
a faint heart

waves of pure hope
clean the beaches
the island heaves
with fire

beyond red sunsets
memories live
in the eyes of children
who will forge
their own future

© Gerald England

Composed: Gee Cross, 23rd October 2001

Publication

2001 Zimmerzine (Internet)

(k25)

2011-12-18T01:01:00.000Z

days after
uncountable candles
light the world

© Gerald England

Composed: Gee Cross, 17th September 2001

Publication

2001 World Haiku Wall (Internet)

(k24)

2011-12-16T23:00:00.000Z

downpour
before venturing out
the dog thinks twice

© Gerald England

Composed: Gee Cross, 5th September 2001

Unpublished

(k23)

2011-12-15T08:00:00.000Z

from his sick-bed
watching the rain pour
and not caring

© Gerald England

Composed: Gee Cross, 5th September 2001

Unpublished

Stargazing in New Zealand

2011-12-14T07:00:00.001Z

STARGAZING IN NEW ZEALAND

Collected in a transit van
the Japanese astronomer
takes us out of the village
and across two rutted fields
to his tiny observatory.

It is a clear, cold evening;
the heavens are looking beautiful;
we are shown the stars
as they appear before our naked eyes.

He points out the constellations
and the planets, Jupiter and Saturn;
deep inside the milky way
helps us to clearly see
the position of the Southern Cross.

Whilst observing the sky
we catch site of the Mir spaceship
one week before it is due to
splash down somewhere in the sea
between here and Chile.

Inside the observatory
a large telescope is trained on Jupiter.
Through it we can plainly view
swirling gas clouds and four moons
one to the norwest;
three almost in a so'west line.

Outside in the field
smaller telescopes are set up.
we behold Saturn,
its magnificent rings resplendent.
All I can say is
"Wow!"

We also look closely
at the Jewel-box constellation
and the Orion nebulae.

Reluctantly
we return to the warmth
of our lakeside lodge
dreaming of uncountable stars.

© Gerald England

Composed: Gee Cross, 3rd August 2001

Publications

2002 ROMANIAN CONTEMPORARY ASTROPOETRY 2002 (Bucharest, SARM)
2006 NHI (Internet)
2006 Curlew (UK)

*****
PRIVIND LA STELE IN NOUA ZEELANDA

Suntem culesi intr-un camion de tranzit.
Astronomul japonez ne poarta in afara satului
si ne traverseaza doua campuri imperechiate
catre micul sau observator.

Este o seara senina si rece;
cerul arata frumos;
suntem expusi stelelor,
cum si ele apar inaintea ochilor nostri nuzi.

Astronomul puncteaza constelatiile
si planetele, Jupiter si Saturn;
adanc inauntrul Caii Lactee
ne ajuta sa vedem clar
pozitia Crucii Sudului.

In timp ce observam cerul,
prindem si site-ul statiei Mir
cu o saptamana inainte de cuvenita-i
prabusire in mare
intre aici si Chile.

Inauntrul observatorului,
un telescop mare este fixat pe Jupiter.
Prin el putem vedea deschis
nori de gaz invartejati si patru luni,
una spre nord-vest
si trei aproape de linia sud-vestului.

In afara campului
sunt fixate telescoape mai mici.
Observam Saturnul
si magnificele-i inele stralucitoare.
Tot ce pot spune este
"Wow!"

Privim de asemenea indeaproape
constelatia Cutia cu Diamante
si nebuloasa lui Orion.

Fara convingere
ne intoarcem la caldura
casutei noastre de langa lac,
visand stele nenumarate.

GERALD ENGLAND

(versiunea romaneasca de Andrei Dorian Gheorghe)

Publications

2001 SARM-news (Romania)
2006 NHI (Internet)

(k18)

2011-12-13T06:00:00.000Z

RAF jet --
thunder attacks our eardrums
there it was - gone

© Gerald England

Composed: Crainlarich, 26th July 2001

Unpublished

(k17)

2011-12-12T05:00:00.000Z

fogbound viewpoint -
we cannot see the island
but know it is there

© Gerald England

Composed: Arnisdale, 25th July 2001

Unpublished

(k16)

2011-12-11T04:00:00.000Z

Knoydart -
somewhere in the greyness
sea and sky meet

© Gerald England

Composed: Arnisdale, 25th July 2001

Unpublished

(k15)

2011-12-10T03:00:00.001Z

below the ring
of cloud-topped mountains
still waters

© Gerald England

Composed: Arnisdale, 25th July 2001

Unublished

(k14)

2011-12-09T02:00:00.001Z

scampering uphill
out of the rhododendrons
a young deer

© Gerald England

Composed: Loch Quoich, 25th July 2001

Unpublished

(k12)

2011-12-08T01:01:00.001Z

waiting for our boat
the incoming tide
climbs three steps

Composed: Inner Farne, 23rd July 2001

Unpublished

(k11)

2011-12-06T23:30:00.000Z

yellow clumps
of scarce fiddleneck
between the thistles

Composed: Inner Farne, 23rd July 2001

Unpublished

(k10)

2011-12-05T22:30:00.000Z

a pied wagtail
darts between picnickers
by the lighthouse

© Gerald England

Composed: Inner Farne, 23rd July 2001

Publication

2007 Ginyu (Japan)

(k9)

2011-12-04T21:00:00.000Z

on Inner Farne
the incessant screams
of arctic terns

© Gerald England

Composed: Inner Farne, 23rd July 2001

Unpublished

(k8)

2011-12-03T20:02:00.003Z

the rat-tap flap
of puffins flying
from their burrows

© Gerald England

Composed: Staple Island, 23rd July 2001

Unpublished

(k7)

2011-12-01T22:00:00.000Z

between two rocks
an abandoned shag's egg
fallen from the nest

© Gerald England

Composed: Staple Island, 23rd July 2001

Unpublished

(k6)

2011-11-30T21:00:00.000Z

squawking seagulls
more the angry brigade
than dawn chorus

© Gerald England

Composed: Seahouses, 23rd July 2001

Unpublished

(k5)

2011-11-29T20:00:00.000Z

an unwanted pint
my note to the milkman
gone in the gale

© Gerald England

Composed: Gee Cross, 11th July 2001

Unpublished

Following the Final

2011-11-28T19:00:00.000Z

Composed: Gee Cross, 9th July 2001

Publication

2002 Curlew (UK)

Singapore Storm

2011-11-27T18:00:00.002Z

SINGAPORE STORM

Labelled with a sticker on our lapels
dispatched from the hotel by taxi to the quay
our status as tourist recognised
we are personally escorted aboard the junk.
Encouraged by our Chinese lady captain
we help ourselves to coffee or coke.

Beyond the skyscraper surrounded harbour
ships anchor offshore in the South China Sea.
While passengers sit in plastic seats
or test their sea-legs on the swaying deck,
the captain reels off streams of statistics
stressing Singapore’s financial standing
over Hong Kong, its trading rival.

Past the shoreline of Sentosa,
the sky darkens; the rain comes down;
canvas curtains are lowered;
the deck awash,
we move bags onto chairs,
drift towards the drier, sheltered decks,
balancing cups.

Braving the downpour,
at Kuso Island,
we run along the gangway,
through dripping trees
to the temple.
A television plays
in the kitchen
where a girl prepares food;
a snake slithers in a cage
by the shrine.
Incense mixes with the moistness.

***

Dressed only
in tee-shirts, sandals, shorts,
after the rain
sun soon steams us dry.

© Gerald England

Composed: Gee Cross, 28th June 2001

Publication

2006 Sons of Camus Writers International (Canada)

(k4)

2011-11-26T17:00:00.000Z

lightning forks
i count to twenty-three
no rain -- as yet

© Gerald England

Composed: Gee Cross, 26th June 2001

Unpublished

(k1)

2011-11-25T16:00:00.000Z

my wife is talking to her computer rain lashes the window

© Gerald England

Composed: Gee Cross, 10th June 2001

Publication

2004 Raw NerVZ (Canada)

(z41)

2011-11-24T15:00:00.001Z

an open window
a little creepie-crawlie
drops on my keyboard

© Gerald England

Composed: Gee Cross, 29th May 2001

Unpublished

(z33)

2011-11-23T11:00:00.000Z

at the hand car-wash
the language of the cleaners
is filthy-dirty

© Gerald England

Composed: Hyde, 5th May 2001

Unpublished

(z30)

2011-11-22T10:00:00.000Z

on top
of the RSPB sign
a gull screams

Composed: Southport, 4th May 2001

Unpublished

(z28)

2011-11-21T09:00:00.000Z

banks of daffodils
battered by hailstones
- english spring

© Gerald England

Composed: Gee Cross, 28th April 2001

Unpublished

(z27)

2011-11-20T08:00:00.000Z

deleting his name
from my email address book
tears fall on keys

© Gerald England

Composed: Gee Cross, 21st April 2001

Publications

2001 World Haiku Review (Internet)
2001 Aabye (UK)

(z26)

2011-11-19T07:00:00.000Z

flying east
alongside the sunset
clouds on fire

Composed: en route to Singapore, 30th March 2001

Unpublished

(z24)

2011-11-18T06:00:00.000Z

airport lounge
a thousand ways
of waiting

© Gerald England

Composed: Auckland, 30th March 2001

Publication

2007 Bogg (USA)

(z24)

2011-11-17T05:00:00.000Z

bridge shadow
out of it
a shag flys

© Gerald England

Composed: Katikati, 23rd March 2001

Unpublished

(z23)

2011-11-16T04:00:00.000Z

over the bridge
two women pass
a whiff a perfume

© Gerald England

Composed: Katikati, 23rd March 2001

Unpublished

(z22)

2011-11-15T03:00:00.000Z

splash of water
trickles down the stone
finds its own pathway

© Gerald England

Composed: Katikati, 23rd March 2001

Publications

2001 Land of the Long White Cloud (Internet)
2008 Ackworth born, gone West (Internet)

(z21)

2011-11-14T02:00:00.000Z

possum roadkill
the feeding harrier
flys wrong way

© Gerald England

Composed: Katikati 23rd March 2001

Unpublished

(z20)

2011-11-13T01:00:00.000Z

(z19)

2011-11-11T23:00:00.000Z

(z18)

2011-11-10T22:00:00.000Z

(z17)

2011-11-09T21:00:00.001Z

New Zealand customs
before letting us in
they wash our shoes

© Gerald England

Composed: Christchurch, 3rd March 2001

Unpublished

(z16)

2011-11-08T20:00:00.000Z

(z15)

2011-11-07T19:00:00.000Z

weaving in and out
of the heavy traffic
Singapore trishaws

© Gerald England

Composed: Singapore, 1st March 2001

Unpublished

tanka 32

2011-11-06T18:00:00.001Z

the Hindu temple
through the open doorway
people at prayer
over them in a dark sky
sickle moon and Jupiter

© Gerald England

Composed: Singapore, 1st March 2001

Unpublished

(z14)

2011-11-05T17:00:00.001Z

inflight snooze
snatches of conversation
blend obtusely

© Gerald England

Composed: en route to Singapore, 28th February 2001

Unpublished

(z11)

2011-11-04T16:45:00.000Z

Eclipse Sequence

2011-11-03T00:00:00.001Z

ECLIPSE SEQUENCE

January 9th 2001

*

bright full moon
shines through thin cloud
~ a plane flies over

*

the shadow bites ~
level with big planets
Capella shines

*

four-fifths gone
more stars appear
Venus fades

*

from her sick-bed
my wife watches the action
on television

*

frosty night ~
deep red disc
in Gemini

*

light rays spread
to Pollux and Castor
~ crescent emerges

*

half moon
Procyon and Sirius
twinkle low

*

small shadow left
the biting wind
sends me indoors

*

the whole moon
south in winter sky
~ curtains close

*

© Gerald England

Composed: Gee Cross, 9th January 2001

Publications

2001 ROMANIAN CONTEMPORARY ASTROPOETRY 2001 (Targoviste, SARM)
2006 Other Voices (Internet)
2007 Ackworth born, gone West (Internet)

*****
SECVENTELE ECLIPSEI
de Gerald England
(in romaneste de Andrei Dorian Gheorghe)

*

luminoasa luna plina
straluce prin nor subtire-
un avion zboara deasupra-i

*

umbra musca
nivel cu mari planete
Capella straluceste

*

patru-cinci duse
mai multe stele apar
Venus se ofileste

*

din patu-i de boala
sotia mea priveste actiunea
la televizor

*

noapte inghetata
disc rosu adanc
in Gemenii

*

raze de lumina se raspandesc
spre Castor si Pollux-
crescente rasarind

*

luna jumatate
Procyon si Sirius
licaresc incet

*

mica umbra scade
vantul muscator
ma trimite inauntru

*

luna intreaga
sud in cer de iarna-
cortinele se trag

Publications

2001 Astronautica (Romania)
2002 SARM News (Internet)
2007 Ackworth born, gone West (Internet)

(s27)

2011-11-02T10:00:00.001Z

above snow-clouds
Jupiter - Saturn - Venus
this clear Christmas night

© Gerald England

Composed: Gee Cross, 25th December 2000

Publication

2001 Spin (New Zealand)

(s25)

2011-11-01T09:00:00.000Z

huddled at the door
at the end of a long lead
dog on the lawn

© Gerald England

Composed: Gee Cross, 13th December 2000

Unpublished

(s24)

2011-10-31T08:00:00.000Z

December storm
-- on the shed roof
our garden gate

© Gerald England

Composed: Gee Cross, 13th December 2000

Unpublished

(s23)

2011-10-30T07:00:00.000Z

3 a.m. gale
contents of a wheelie-bin
blowing down the street

© Gerald England

Composed: Gee Cross, 13th December 2000

Publication

2004 PATH (Spalding, British Haiku Society)

(s22)

2011-10-29T06:00:00.000+01:00

Haiga © copyright Kuniharu Shimizu, 2000
freezing weather
collecting warm spring water
from the town well

© Gerald England

Composed: Gee Cross, 3rd December 2000

Publications

2000 Kuni's Haiga Gallery (Internet)
2001 Ukku (Internet)

(s19)

2011-10-28T05:00:00.000+01:00

river in full spate
ducks on the high bank
waddle in a line

© Gerald England

Composed: Dunsop Bridge, 10th November 2000

Publication

2001 Haiku Headlines (USA)

Bonfire Nights

2011-10-27T04:00:00.000+01:00

BONFIRE NIGHTS

weeks before
our peace disturbed
by bangers

November 4th
a twelve hour siege
in the noise-zone

in the morning
the dog sniffs stale smoke
is off her food

November 5th
explosions all evening
the house shakes

despite the gales
rockets light the sky
illuminate rain

November 6th
still the sound of fireworks
in the street

© Gerald England

Composed: Gee Cross, 6th November 2000

Unpublished

(s16)

2011-10-26T03:00:00.000+01:00

fat swans feeding
as I get near
they hiss.....

© Gerald England

Composed: Thorpe Acre, 8th October 2000

Publications

2000 Haiku Mania (Internet)

tanka 31

2011-10-25T02:00:00.000+01:00

on the haiku walk
needing supermarket conveniences
falling down the bank
hands and arse now muddy
needing supermarket conveniences

© Gerald England

Composed: Thorpe Acre, 8th October 2000

Publications

2000 Haiku Mania (Internet)
2002 Bogg (USA)

(s15)

2011-10-24T01:00:00.000+01:00

the tops of fence-posts
linked by thin cobwebs
catching sunlight

© Gerald England

Composed: Thorpe Acre, 8th October 2000

Publication

2000 Haiku Mania (Internet)

(s14)

2011-10-22T23:00:00.000+01:00

ancient pathway
stepping carefully
over the dog-dirt

© Gerald England

Composed: Thorpe Acre, 8th October 2000

Unpublished

Under MacGillycuddy’s Reeks

2011-10-21T22:00:00.000+01:00

UNDER MACGILLYCUDDY’S REEKS

under MacGillycuddy’s Reeks
rain pours relentlessly
sheep scatter as vehicle approaches
a three-way junction
two leading to where cars are banned
unless they come with four feet
smoke rises from the fire
where a tinker is encamped
yellow flowers bloom in grass
growing down the middle of roads
that climb and twist above the top
of raging waterfalls and cross
gaps between mountainsides
passing places are precarious and few
mists and clouds curl over the peaks
until we reach a remote bar
over lunch we watch the world news on TV
while the locals converse in Gaelic

© Gerald England

Composed: Kenmare, 15th September 2000

Publication

2005 DARK LULLABY (Pittsburgh, UnMon America)

(s11)

2011-10-20T21:00:00.000+01:00

seagulls
flying faster
than the ferry

© Gerald England

Composed: St George's Channel, 12th September 2000

Publications

2001 FRAGMENTS (Sutton Bridge, Hub)
2002 World Haiku Association (Internet)
2003 Version (Internet)

*****
Чайки-то
Быстрей летают
Чем паром!

Gerald England; Russian translation by Ull

Publication

2003 Version (Internet)

(s10)

2011-10-19T20:00:00.000+01:00

3.30 pm
mothers and granddads gather
outside the school

© Gerald England

Composed: Taly-y-bont, 11th September 2000

Unpublished

(s9)

2011-10-18T19:00:00.001+01:00

by the roadsign
"Welcome to Shropshire"
a dead squirrel

© Gerald England

Composed: Foel, 11th September 2000

Unpublished

I Will Go To The Bank

2011-10-17T18:25:00.003+01:00

I WILL GO TO THE BANK

(a postmodernist sonnet based on words by Walt Whitman)

I will go to the bank by the atmosphere
for my heart's sake;
I am mad for to be in contact with
the smoke of my mouth forever;
The passing of blood and inspiration
is for my respiration and naked;
I am in love with me.

The passing of the atmosphere
is for my mouth forever.
The smoke of the wood and air
through my heart,
I am mad for my respiration and naked;
I am mad for my heart;
I will go to the beating of my heart,
to the passing of blood
And become undisguised and
naked ripples.

The wood and air through my own breath,
silkthread, buzzed whispers,
Loveroot, crotch and inspiration;
I will go to the wood
with air through my heart.
Echoes of my lungs beating
crotch and vine,
I will go to the beating of blood
and become undisguised and naked.

© Gerald England

Composed: Gee Cross, 28th September 2000

Publication

2000 The Studio (Internet)

(s8)

2011-10-11T13:30:00.001+01:00

hot afternoon
moorland sheep doze
under stones

Composed: Rannoch Moor, 26th July 2000

Publications

2002 World Haiku Association (Internet)
2003 Version (Internet)

*****
жаркий полдень
дремлют овцы между камней
на поле вереска

Russian translation by Polay

Publication

2003 Version (Internet)

(s7)

2011-10-10T11:00:00.001+01:00

on the tiller
of the lifeboat's dinghy
fat seagull

Composed: Tobermory, 25th July 2000

Unpublished

(s6)

2011-10-09T09:00:00.000+01:00

Ardnamurchan
cattle blocking the road
reluctantly move

Composed: Tobermory, 25th July 2000

Publications

2000 Poetry Scotland (UK)

(s5)

2011-10-08T07:00:00.000+01:00

single track road ends
30mph sign
can i speed up now?

Composed: Laga Bay, 25th July 2000

Publications

2000 Poetry Scotland (UK)

(s3)

2011-10-07T05:00:00.000+01:00

quiet motorway
keeping to seventy
takes con cen tra tion

Composed: Stirling, 24th July 2000

Publications

2000 Poetry Scotland (UK)
2002 World Haiku Review (Internet)