Christmas Eve, 2008

Christmas Eve morning
do I really need any
last minute shopping?

© gerald england

Composed: Gee Cross, 24th December 2008

Publications

2008 Winter Haiku (Internet)
2008 Ackworth born, gone West (Internet)

A contribution to Skywatch Friday.

Linking to the Christmas Bloghop at Lunch Break

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down the line
someone is waiting
for love

gerald england

photo of Brinnington Station © 2008, Gerald England.

Composed: Gee Cross, 22nd December 2008

Publication

2008 Winter Haiku (Internet)

A contribution to Sunday Bridges at San Francisco Bay Daily Photo and Blue Monday.

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Crux over Gemini Observatory, Mauna Kea, Hawaii
Photo: © Ovidiu Vaduvescu

in a cold field
on the other side of my world
the southern cross

© Gerald England

Composed: Gee Cross, 12th December 2008

Publications

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

A contribution to Skywatch Friday.

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nothing on the tree
Christmas spenders hurry
to the heated mall

Gerald England

photo of Trafford Centre © 2008, Gerald England.

Composed: Gee Cross, 10th December 2008

Publications

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

Republished as a contribution to Outdoor Wednesday.

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the back way home
under the holly hedge
whitened leaves

© 2008, Gerald England

Composed: Gee Cross, 3rd December 2008

Publications

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

Republished as a contribution to Our World Tuesday.

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autumn mist
slipping and sliding
towards winter

© Gerald England

Composed: Gee Cross, 29th November 2008

Publication

2008 Autumn Haiku (Internet)

Republished as a contribution to Scenic Weekends.

tanka 43 (Sally Walsh's Dam)

Sally Walsh's Dam
down Dicky Sykes Lane
near the turkey farm;
Dad told us not to walk there
for dead dogs are drowned therein

© 2008, Gerald England

Composed: Gee Cross, 25th November 2008

Publication

2008 Ackworth born, gone West (Internet)

The photograph dates from 1967.

A contribution to Outdoor Wednesday and Water World Wednesday.

paradox (d38)

below the M6
above the penny ferry
a sea-bound ship

words & photo © 2008, Gerald England.

Composed: Gee Cross, 8th November 2008

Publication

2008 Ackworth born, gone West (Internet)

The original photograph was taken in 1975. The ferry referred to cost 11p in 2003 apparently, and the M6 bridge is now rather wider.

Republished as a contribution to The Weekend in Black and White and Sunday Bridges at San Francisco Bay Daily Photo.

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shade all gone
swept into a soggy pile
on cracked concrete

words and photograph © 2008, gerald england

Composed: Gee Cross, 8th November 2008

Publications

2008 Autumn Haiku.

Republished as a contribution to Orange You Glad It's Friday.

Bill Higginson gone

Bill Higginson gone
a giant has made his final leap
tears in the pond

© gerald england

Composed: Gee Cross, 12th October 2008

Publication

2008 Autumn Haiku.

Read also William J Higginson: in memoriam.

Serendipity

autumn pleasures
the rusting roller-coaster
remains behind

© gerald england

Composed: Gee Cross, 4th October 2008

Publications

2008 Autumn Haiku.
2008 Ackworth born, gone West (Internet)

Republished as a contribution to Our World Tuesday.

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over the fence a fallen sunflower flood water

© gerald england

Composed: Gee Cross, 15th September 2008

Publication

2008 Autumn Haiku.

Republished as a contribution to Monday Mellow Yellows.

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.

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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.

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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.

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half the year gone
daisies and buttercups
soon to be mown

© 2008, gerald england

Composed: Gee Cross, 30th June 2008

Publication

2008 Summer Haiku (Internet)

Republished as a contribution to Outdoor Wednesday.

Doorway (Hyde Theatre Royal)

Hyde Theatre Royal
the rescue plan is onward
to the last exit

text & photograph © 2008, gerald england

Composed: Gee Cross, 29th June 2008

Publication

2008 Ackworth Born, Gone West (Internet)

Republished as a contribution to Whimsical Windows, Delirious Doors.

For more information, view my photos from the Heritage Open Days at Hyde Theatre Royal or visit the Theatre Royal Onward website.