(s27)

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

© Gerald England

Composed: Gee Cross, 25th December 2000

Publication

2001 Spin (New Zealand)

(s25)

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Unpublished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)

December storm
-- on the shed roof
our garden gate

© Gerald England

Composed: Gee Cross, 13th December 2000

Unpublished

(s23)

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)

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)

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

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Unpublished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)

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

© Gerald England

Composed: Thorpe Acre, 8th October 2000

Publications

2000 Haiku Mania (Internet)

tanka 31

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)

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)

ancient pathway
stepping carefully
over the dog-dirt

© Gerald England

Composed: Thorpe Acre, 8th October 2000

Unpublished

Under MacGillycuddy’s Reeks

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)

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)

3.30 pm
mothers and granddads gather
outside the school

© Gerald England

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

Unpublished

(s9)

by the roadsign
"Welcome to Shropshire"
a dead squirrel

© Gerald England

Composed: Foel, 11th September 2000

Unpublished

I Will Go To The Bank

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)

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)

on the tiller
of the lifeboat's dinghy
fat seagull

Composed: Tobermory, 25th July 2000

Unpublished

(s6)

Ardnamurchan
cattle blocking the road
reluctantly move

Composed: Tobermory, 25th July 2000

Publications

2000 Poetry Scotland (UK)

(s5)

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

Composed: Laga Bay, 25th July 2000

Publications

2000 Poetry Scotland (UK)