SUMMER HAIKU

drying green
legs crazily crossed
clothes pegs


moist grass
hammerheaded starlings
worms beware


midsummer's day
barefoot on warm concrete
centipede ponders


dry bird dropping
on the old tree swing
children long gone


blue washed sky
swifts loop the loop
summer is here


warm words
cutting evening sky
telephone wires


baking safari park
elephantine droppings
dung beetles help


heatwave
lizard glued to the wall
binks


five dolphins
leaping high
on beach towel


green leaves
wave welcome - nod farewell
to summer


fly catchers again
after many thousand miles
swallows circulate

pink fluffy clouds
stream home this evening -
fairground music


slow to darken
garden sprinkler hisses
deep blue night


Becalmed
deep water
first star


Poolside sunbathing
kitten rolls and stretches
the sound of water


Even the crows
cannot rob the cornfields
of yellowness


to die well
presents difficulties
for whales and men


warm bright sunshine
releases smiles and greetings
loosens clothing


I wave farewell
the grassy hills
wave back


smell of cooking
does not stop the bees
visiting clover

plump young swallow
flies low
light almost gone


magpie struts
beneath the bushes
sun dappled lawn


back from holiday
I look for strawberries
before opening mail


revealed at low tide
sandcastle
made in concrete


two young duckings
chase flies all morning
at brake neck speed


calm summer day
children
not yet awake


delayed departure
elusive
ferry terminal

summer 99