Thursday, 18 December 2025

Winter Haiku - from my poetry collection, 'Still Life, With Waders'

 

Winter Haiku

 

High in the damson tree

brown leaves curl and crack,

Robin sings a solo.

 

Flashes of cold grey

white, stabbing yellow, gulls

fight over fish heads.

 

This vast cold sky

with crisp vapour trails.

We are not truly alone.

 

Iced fog settles

pale gulls vanish skyward,

daylight fails tonight.

 

In my wooden shed

a tortoiseshell butterfly sleeps.

Outside snow falls.

 

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