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
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
Is this the Library? 