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2026-04-06 15:00:55 CEST

#dailyhaikuprompt - carp
The elusive carp
On the river bed watching
While you drink your tea

2026-01-26 08:51:49 CET

#DailyHaikuPrompt - charcoal
Scritch scratch the black stick
Edges across white sketchbook
Etching winter shades

2025-11-09 16:27:55 CET

#DailyHaikuPrompt - turnips
Turnip-carved faces
Scarier than a pumpkin
But much harder work

2025-11-02 15:43:09 CET

#DailyHaikuPrompt - sleet
Sleet gets a bad press
Rain is fresh, snow has beauty
No-one cares for sleet

2025-10-27 19:35:56 CET

#DailyHaikuPrompt - coolness
Sleek black cat slinking
Between bins, stops, looks, moves on
Coolness in action

2025-10-10 09:05:23 CEST

#DailyHaikuPrompt - straw
There's a straw man, he's
Waiting in the field. Told me,
Let the crows boogie.

2025-08-23 19:45:17 CEST

#DailyHaikuPrompt - undulate
We apologise
For the undue lateness
Of the evening train
And I apologise for an unduly poor pun.

2025-08-18 08:09:14 CEST

#DailyHaikuPrompt - chill
Not so fast, autumn
Save your dark morning chill air
Let summer linger
Seriously. I haven't even had my summer holiday yet...

2025-08-09 09:45:24 CEST

#DailyHaikuPrompt - dance
She danced like no one
Was watching, not the wisest
Audition technique.

2025-05-25 10:58:43 CEST

#DailyHaikuPrompt - snapshot
There in the album
It's the nans that time forgot
Living their best lives
#Haiku #senryu
I was overworking a first draft about yellowing photos frozen in amber when this one came in and tickled me

2025-05-19 18:29:14 CEST

#DailyHaikuPrompt - verdant
Being verdant brings
Several difficulties
Or so the frog sings
#haiku

2025-05-16 07:11:52 CEST

#DailyHaikuPrompt - lost
Let's get lost today
Leave the madness, shut the door
And head for the woods
#haiku #friday

2025-04-16 18:13:52 CEST

It's all relative
Says hill to mound and mountain
Me, I know my place
#DailyHaikuPrompt - mountain
What we have here is an obscure reference to a 1966 sketch from "That was the week that was", masquerading as something deep.

2025-04-14 08:44:58 CEST

Sleep now little one
You're at the beginning of
Quite an adventure
#DailyHaikuPrompt - birth
#haiku

2025-03-17 18:11:15 CET

Can't get enough of
That mellow yellow crocus,
Mad about saffron
#DailyHaikuPrompt - crocus
#Haiku
Donovan, Mellow Yellow, 1967.
Some might suggest I've got stuck in a bit of a 1960s music rut with recent haikus. Quite rightly.

2025-03-11 07:51:30 CET

The tillerman steers
A plough or a boat and will
Always welcome tea
#DailyHaikuPrompt - till
#haiku
Cat Stevens, Tea for the Tillerman, 1970. Best known for singles Father and Son, and Wild World, pop-pickers.

2025-03-10 08:15:54 CET

A frosty morning
Take a deep breath, let fresh air
Freeze my wheezing lungs
#DailyHaikuPrompt - fresh
#haiku
Bit chilly this morning.

2025-03-09 09:48:13 CET

Chiffchaff, olive green
Flits through woods and willows, sings
Its name from treetops
#DailyHaikuPrompt - warbler
#haiku
Acknowledging my sources -
https://www.countryfile.com/wildlife/birds/warblers. From which I learn that a garden is the last place you'd find a Garden Warbler.

2025-03-06 11:05:16 CET

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oh it really is, isn't it! Every verse a joy :-)

2025-03-06 08:15:35 CET

On the village green
With draught beer and strawberry jam
Forever preserved
#DailyHaikuPrompt - green
#Haiku
Spent quite a long time deciding which elements of the Kinks 1968 masterpiece to include, with all the different varieties.

2025-03-03 09:03:29 CET

Late summer morning
Northumberland beach covered
With partying frogs
#DailyHaikuPrompt - frog
#Haiku
Today's prompt brought back this memory of a holiday in Newton by the Sea about 12 years ago. I assume it's a regular thing with there being a nature reserve nearby. Unless I dreamt it - it was very early in the morning...

2025-03-01 08:23:14 CET

Through rough fields the plough
Turns the soil though the seagulls
Plunder each furrow
#DailyHaikuPrompt - plow
#Haiku
Or is it "furrough"?

2025-01-27 08:10:41 CET

Six weeks old her smile
Returns yours, lights up her face
Wipes away your years
#DailyHaikuPrompt - mirth
Lovely day with granddaughter Lily on Saturday, and my, what a smile..
#haiku #poetry #truestory

2025-01-08 08:26:17 CET

#DailyHaikuPrompt - drafts
In the drafts folder
Candidate haikus languish
Incomplete
#haiku

2024-12-16 08:49:10 CET

Welcome to the world
A new daughter, granddaughter
This morning her first
Breath - #dailyHaikuPrompt
A very personal one this morning, but the prompt was just too perfect. So, just call me grandpa. Lily born just after 3am, mother and baby doing very well.

2024-12-14 16:35:13 CET

#DailyHaikuPrompt - snow drift
Crossing the Pennines
To the old Hartside café
Snow poles mark the way
#haiku

2024-12-08 15:30:43 CET

#DailyHaikuPrompt - Clear Day
No zooms, no email
Out of office is in place
The hills are calling
#haiku #senryu

2024-11-16 23:31:45 CET

#DailyHaikuPrompt -- ice
Hold on to the edge
Now join the crowds on the ice
Maybe one more lap
#haiku

2024-11-14 08:51:39 CET

#dailyhaikuprompt - mittens
Red knitted mittens
Strung together, abandoned
On a frosty bench
#haiku

2024-11-11 08:52:07 CET

#dailyhaikuprompt - onion
Pickled in a jar
Small white balls could be sheep eyes
Probably onions
#haiku
edit - forgot to mention the prompt word. That's nothing, it took me a while to remember the hashtag. Must be Monday morning.

2024-10-23 21:33:44 CEST

#dailyhaikuprompt - stems
See the garden shines
With bright red, fiery orange
Winter dogwood stems
#haiku
Funny word, "fiery". One of those ones you stare at wondering if you've spelt it right.

2024-10-19 12:42:48 CEST

#DailyHaikuPrompt - foggy
Fog on the north Tyne
Is owned by sheep, red squirrels,
Osprey and heron.
With apologies to all the other residents of #Northumberland with part shares in the fog. And to #Lindisfarne.
#haiku

2024-10-06 13:31:46 CEST

#dailyHaikuPrompt - grain
My granddad's workshop
He planes the wood and shows me
How to read the grain.
#haiku
#poem
#truestory

2024-09-21 19:55:36 CEST

#DailyHaikuPrompt - cooling
Citrus scents wafting
Cooling on the kitchen bench
Lemon drizzle cake
#haiku
#poem
#truestory

2024-09-02 21:41:11 CEST

New moon, thin sliver
Be careful with your wishes
But wish all the same
#dailyhaikuprompt - new moon
#haiku
#poem

2024-09-01 10:43:22 CEST

Machrie Moor on the Isle of Arran, a couple of shots of the standing stones from a week or so ago.
#StandingStoneSunday
Not pictured: a circle known as ‘Fingal’s Cauldron’ named for the mythic Irish giant, including a stone with a hole said to be where Fingal tethered his dog, Bran, while he was eating.
https://cdn.mastodon.org.uk/media_attachments/files/113/061/360/112/823/299/original/aeb64786fe995301.jpeg
https://cdn.mastodon.org.uk/media_attachments/files/113/061/362/379/262/983/original/764a6345f08a3819.jpeg

2024-08-28 07:51:38 CEST

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oh, The Band Played Waltzing Matilda. Eric Bogle, covered by the Pogues.
https://youtu.be/PKURhqmSLmM?si=dI1aWfbjbr5HNekI

2024-08-28 07:16:56 CEST

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thanks. I feel there must be a few more!

2024-08-28 07:00:33 CEST

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"When do I get to sing My Way"?

2024-08-25 13:19:29 CEST

#dailyhaikuprompt - clear air
Calm after the storm
Sweet air. Distant rumble of
Unfinished business
#haiku
#poetry
#poem

2024-08-24 16:50:17 CEST

#dailyhaikuprompt - red leaves
Not yet, autumn leaves
Time enough for scarlet hue
Summer's almost gone
#haiku
#poetry

2024-08-19 14:06:02 CEST

#dailyhaikuprompt dusk
Summer afternoon
So long, gives way to twilight
Golden, blue, and gone
#haiku
#poetry