My response to MindLoveMisery’s Menagerie Heeding Haiku With Chèvrefeuille – our source for inspiration is a quote from Matsuo Basho: “The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.” It was my first day at school. The playground was alive with boisterous boys and giggling girls, running and […]
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Guards and peacocks
My response to dVerse Poets Pub Haibun Monday #8 – journey/travel At sixteen, I had been on just two holidays: one with the school when I was ten, and one with a friend and her family when I was twelve, both to the Isle of Wight. So my first visit to Cologne before moving there […]
Tasseomancy
My response to Carpe Diem #928 Extra-Sensory Perception (and Common Sense) Great Aunt Rose was married to a Romany and learned to read the tea leaves. After her husband died, she lodged in a small room, with a curtain around her bed, like a bed in a gypsy caravan. She had a crystal ball but […]
Hedera – a haibun
My response to dVerse Haibun Monday #7; I have chosen the Charles Bukowski quotation: ‘Find what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness. Let it kill you and let it devour your remains.’ The curly willow […]
Beating heart of sea – a haibun
My response to Bastet’s A Month of Haiga – white noise When I first moved up to North Norfolk, I lived in a small village right next to the sea. I loved being able to walk a hundred yards down the road, up the cart gap where the life boat and fishing boats are driven […]
Sunday Memory Haibun
Throughout the seventies I lived in Cologne. For the first five years or so I lived on the opposite side of the Rhine – the Schäl Sick – and had to get a tram to the city. From where I lived, trams crossed the river over the Mülheimer Brücke and I remember coming home in […]
A Winter Haibun
My response to Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie’s Heeding Haiku So far the winter in Norfolk has been extraordinarily mild. We already have spring blossom on some trees, daffodils are showing, some are even blooming, and it’s too warm to wear scarf, gloves and hat. We haven’t even lit a fire! I love dressing up in layers of […]
writing in north norfolk 