(n18)

on the cobblestones
of the riverside path
a white feather

© Gerald England

Composed: Callander, 4th September 2005

Publications

2005 Poetry Scotland (Internet)
2006 Haiku Hikes (Internet)
2016 CALLANDER HAIKU (Callander, Diehard)

(n17)

ducks ripple
through an alder's reflection
babies follow

© Gerald England

Composed: Callander, 4th September 2005

Publications

2005 Poetry Scotland (Internet)
2006 Haiku Hikes (Internet)
2016 CALLANDER HAIKU (Callander, Diehard)

(n16)

Ben Ledi
ignored by Munro-baggers
low mist

© Gerald England

Composed: Callander, 4th September 2005

Publications

2005 Poetry Scotland (Internet)
2006 Haiku Hikes (Internet)
2016 CALLANDER HAIKU (Callander, Diehard)

(n15)

how many bells?
low walls and distant hills
echo back

© Gerald England

Composed: Callander, 4th September 2005

Publications

2005 Poetry Scotland (Internet)
2006 Haiku Hikes (Internet)
2016 CALLANDER HAIKU (Callander, Diehard)

(n14)

prodigal daughter
barbecues aubergines
blue smoke

© Gerald England

Composed: Callander, 3rd September 2005

Publications

2005 Poetry Scotland (Internet)
2006 Haiku Hikes (Internet)

(n13)

book launch
passing ice-cream eaters
pause to look in

© Gerald England

Composed: Callander, 2nd September 2005

Publications

2005 Poetry Scotland (Internet)
2006 Haiku Hikes (Internet)
2016 CALLANDER HAIKU (Callander, Diehard)

(n12)

train halted
across the Firth of Forth
Fife lies

© Gerald England

Composed: Edinburgh, 1st September 2005

Publications

2005 Poetry Scotland (Internet)
2006 Haiku Hikes (Internet)

(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)

(s3)

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)

St Ninian's Cave

ST. NINIAN'S CAVE

Past giant rhubarb and bluebell banks
the path stepstones the stream

Marsh marigolds grow
beneath tall, fungi-clad trees

Beyond the pebble-strewn beach
the cave penetrates the cliff

From ledges of sea-thrift
water drips over the entrance

Up the multi-creviced rock
a spider climbs

My son lifts a placed pebble
to find a shiny tiny five-pence piece

The dog sniffs seaweed entangled
in the flotsam of a consumer age

St. Ninian does not hide here now

Over in Whithorn they exhume his age
and parade it for the paying public.

© GERALD ENGLAND

Composed: Stranraer, 7th May 1991

Publications

1992 The People's Poetry (UK)
1992 Aireings (UK)
1998 Poetry Scotland (UK)
1999 WAITING FOR YOU TO SPEAK (Pittsburgh, UnMon America)

Fife Fire Tongue-twister

FIFE FIRE TONGUE-TWISTER

If five fit Fife firemen
fear fir fires,
can five fit Fife firemen
fight fir fires in Fife fir forests,
for four Forfar firemen
fear for five Fife firemen
fighting fir fires,
and when four Forfar firemen
find five fit Fife firemen
can fight fir fires,
will four Forfar firemen
find fighting Fife fir fires fearful ?

© GERALD ENGLAND

Composed: Hope Bowdler, 8th September 1982

Publication

1998 Poetry Scotland (UK)