Summer haiku
SUMMER HAIKU
Updated in html by Philip D Noble on 6th June 2000
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
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