watching unfamiliar stars trace
this
northern sky
so far from home
I’m
It’s no haiku but written in response to haiku horizons prompt: star
Tag Archives: micropoems
snail revisited
Coiled tight around her beating heart
she ventures forward.
With the weight of all heavy on her back
she scribes the world in silver.
ocean
the ocean – here
a response to Haiku Horizon’s prompt – Ocean
and with total respect to and in awe of Toni Child’s Where’s the Ocean?
noon
castle of my imagination
Inside that impenetrable entanglement of thorned roses –
a dragon dreaming.
Within that keep –
my great claws flex.
It’s no haiku but inspired by haiku horizons prompt castle
spring rain
a new canopy unfurls &
butcherbird practices her song
response to haiku horizons prompt ‘leaf’
cake
multicolured layers
earth’s crust exposed –
the hum of the traffic
my response to Haiku Horizon’s prompt: cake
burn
feeding steaming horses under bright wattle –
my black feet!
Response to Haiku Horizons prompt: burnt
from my mother’s childhood
behind orange jessamine
she holds her breath –
long drop
response to Haiku Horizons prompt: drop
swim
in deep water, a silent stone –
and the songs of fishes
