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.

Tallin

TALLIN

Tallinn welcomes tourists;
we are greeted at the pier head
given a free map and picture postcard.

In the New Town
department store windows
hide away their wares,
behind doors of glass and steel.
.
At the handicraft market
a Delboy-lookalike
sells us dolls.

Up Viru's ancient cobbles,
past money-changers and McDonald’s
crowds flock to the Town Hall Square;
jostle for bargain souvenirs
from numerous stalls.

Step away from the crowds;
turn a corner into the fifteenth century --
houses with dirty white-washed walls,
windows with wooden shutters
and three hundred year old paint.

There is peace on the periphery
of humming busy-ness.

When we leave on the evening tide
waves of Estonian enigmas break.

© Gerald England

Composed: Hyde, 18th June 2008

Publication

2009 Sons of Camus International Writers Journal (Cyprus)

tanka 42

the transient tulip
may come again next year
the permanent stone
grows a covering of moss
or is hidden under leaves

photo & tanka © gerald england

Composed: Gee Cross, 14th June 2008

Publication

2008 Ackworth born, gone West (Internet)

Republished now as a contribution to Monday Mellow Yellows.

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Photograph ©GiuCe from Truxillo Daily Photosilent cactus
up the distant hill
a road zig-zags

© gerald england

Composed: Gee Cross, 11th June 2008

Publication

2008 Haiku Scotland (UK)

Republished now as a contribution to Scenic Weekends.

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the moor
white with cotton-grass
no sign of Keith

© gerald england

Composed: Wessenden Head, 9th June 2008

Publication

2008 Summer Haiku.

Republished now as a contribution to Outdoor Wednesday.

Tallin (3)

off of Viru's
heaving mass of visitors
a street called "sauna"

© Gerald England

Composed: Gee Cross, 8th June 2008

Publication

2009 Sons of Camus Writers International Journal (Cypress)

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

Tallin (2)

Laboratooriumi —
grass in cracks under wooden doors
so quiet

© Gerald England

Composed: Gee Cross, 8th June 2008

Publications

2009 Sons of Camus Writers International Journal (Cypress)
2009 Ackworth born, gone West (Internet)

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

Tallin (1)

old merchant's house
six centuries of grime
clings to walls

© Gerald England

Composed: Gee Cross, 8th June 2008

Publication

2009 Sons of Camus Writers International Journal (Cypress)

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

St Petersburg (3)

The horse tamer
has shod two out of four
Anichov Bridge

© Gerald England

Composed: Gee Cross, 8th June 2008

Publication

2009 Sons of Camus Writers International Journal (Cypress)

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

St Petersburg (2)

Sunday afternoon
in the square by the Hermitage
world tourists throng

© Gerald England

Composed: Gee Cross, 8th June 2008

Publication

2009 Sons of Camus Writers International Journal (Cypress)

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

St Petersburg (1)

Russia's Venice
from this one bridge
eight bridges to be seen

© Gerald England

Composed: Gee Cross, 8th June 2008

Publications

2009 Sons of Camus Writers International Journal (Cypress)
2009 Ackworth born, gone West (Internet)

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

Helsinki (3)

by the station
two blondes in short skirts
discuss fashion lines

© Gerald England

Composed: Gee Cross, 8th June 2008

Publication

2009 Sons of Camus Writers International Journal (Cypress)

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

Helsinki (2)

Temppeliaukio
organ chords reverberate
through solid stone

© Gerald England

Composed: Gee Cross, 8th June 2008

Publication

2009 Sons of Camus Writers International Journal (Cypress)

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