Upside

.

These summer-spring days

small compensation for the

lock down misery

.

by Scooj

Although I have to say that I am enjoying the slower pace and quiet streets. Of course the full horror of the virus is too much to bear, but I am clinging to simple pleasures.

Room at the inn

 

Front garden bushes

heavy with buzzing insects

pollinator’s inn

 

by Scooj

Change

.

Cold northerly wind

reminds us it is still spring

a warm shirt and hat

by Scooj

United

 

These barbecue days

we, confined to our garden

rediscovering

 

by Scooj

 

* dropping the themed haikus for a little while.

 

Haiku 15 (reposted)

 

Counting 1…2…3…

beautiful green Spring meadows,

remember these things?

 

by Scooj

 

  • One of my Early Haiku poems from May 2015 – I was thinking about looking forward to spring, but was uninspired (it must be the rain), so I dug this one out from the archive. Only those of you who became WordPress friends back in the early days will remember this one, so I felt it was worth sharing again.

Shift

 

Early Spring again

though Winter’s business is yet

incomplete, undone.

 

by Scooj

Aphids

 

Tiniest fairies

dance in the evening sun

lime green destroyers.

 

by Scooj

 

Emerald

 

Warmer breeze wakens

dozey rose chafers that crash

through the shrubbery.

 

by Scooj

Woodland

 

In ancient woodland

untouched by human labours

delicate bluebells.

 

by Scooj

Imaginings

 

My ears deceived me?

I swear I heard the shrill cries

of swifts overhead.

 

by Scooj