If want to do this, grab a bunch of your favourite photos and print them out.
Also a pad with paper and a pen.
Pick up one photo at a time.
Play some peaceful music and keeep some water handy so you can drink to keep your mind alert and fresh
Close your eyes.
Sit in silence for a minute or two thinking calm peaceful thoughts.
Open your eyes
Take the photos one at a time and look at them.
What messages come into your mind?
What tastes?
What smells? What visions? What noises? What memories?
What intiitive flashes come to you
Quickly grab your piece of paper and a pen start writing the any words and thoughts down
Pick put some words and phrases that you like
Keep playimg with the words until they feel right to you
Write them in three lines
Before you know it you will have written your very first haiku
Too bad if it doesnt make any sense to anyone but you.
Happy creating...
on a phone line
hanging out to dry
a fluffy row of doves
on a power line
cumulous clouds
after the rain three doves
on a phone line
talking about the weather
three doves
on a phone line
neighbours gossiping
resting on a phone line
as the sun rises
three doves gossip
three doves
on the phone line
in a row again
To celebrate National Poetry Day on 22nd July I am having a haiku and photography exhibition from the 18th July to the 31st August the Rotorua Public Library....
This is a work in progress
As I write the haiku I will be adding them to the bottom of my photos, so watch this space.
at sunrise
pancakes and golden syrup
for breakfast
sunrise spreads
over the sky
he butters my toast
dark weather warning
but first a sunrise spread
for breakfast
bare trees
autumn leaves shiver
for the coming season
setting sun
autumn leaves
leave
in autumn
some leaves linger
suna sets on other bare branches
the mended angel
anchors herself
in the afternoon sun
angel with a broken wing
resting on an anchor
in the afternoon sun
oak leaves
lace the floor
with a gold and green carpet
oak leaves
twist and turn
autumn breeze
light breeze
beneath the oak tree
pieces of autumn
autumn afternoon
oak leaves
still hold the sunlight
these berries I bring you
still wet
from last nights rain
deadly nightshade
glisten after the thunder storm
remind me of black currents
deadly nightshade
glistening after the thunder
deadly nightshade berries
deadly nightshade berries
still wet
from last nights rain
looking like back currents
deadly nightshade
after the downpour
a pair of signets
shaped like a two
sitting on dry grass
garden fairy
catches a falling flower instead of the sun
offering thanks
for a summers day
the fairy
testing the air for
rain drops
the fairy on a summers day
a spring flower
caught by a fairy
by the desserted frog pond
a fairy
catches a flower
ripe with nectar
for an enterprising bee
apple blossom pollen
hitching a ride
an accommodating bee
accomodating bee
pollen hitching a ride
on apple blossom
Apple blossom pollen
on honey bee
the hitch hiker catches a ride
of jam and toast
the tui in the cherry tree
Breakfast time
the tui
beats the alarm clock
sunday morning
the bell chimes for church
tui in a cherry tree
tui in a cherry tree
sunday morning
church bells chime
after the rain
the water recedes
but not on the nasturtian leaf
after the rain
pools of jewells
on the nasturtians
summer downpour
a flood forms
also on a leaf
the rain floods the
intersection
and also a leaf
the flood crosses
the road
and also on a leaf
summer downpour
a star forms
on a leaf
a pool of water shines
at the cross roads
of a nasturtan leaf
drops of water
shine
stars on green
in a marina
ripples disintergrate.
reflections of a duck
a black duck
through dark ripples
night approaches
adrift
among ripples
duck reflection
middle of the marina
a reflection of a duck
in the golden hour
douglas fir trees
the light
perfect shot
douglas fir
lit by the sun
natures christmas trees
jesus statue with faded peonies
my long- dead Grandmother
springs to mind
mid summer
one statue and a peony rose
at her graveside
jesus statue in a cemetary
my long passed grandmother
springs to mind
lichen grows
on a manhole
where no mower can cut it
no mower
can cut
lichen on a manhole
lichen colonising
a manhole
runnng rings
around a manhole
the encroaching lichen
around the manhole
the lichen
runs rings
after the fish and chips
of seagulls
gathers for their picnicpicnic of fish and chips
at Maketu
a cloud of seagulls
Seagulls out number
the packet of discarded
fish and chips
after the family picnic
all that remains
is a squarking gull
shortly after that last chip
has been eaten
the sqwarking seagull
fallen leaf
the skeleton
clings to a rock wall.
decay
the fallen leaf clings to
a rock face
disintegrating leaf
the skeleton clings to
the stoney ground
On stoney ground
the cherry tree
leaf stuck fast
cherry tree leaf
stuck fast
on stoney ground
cherry tree leaf
autumn
leaves its holy reminder
autumn leaf
eaten by a caterpiller
dining out for lunch
caterpillar on a
cherry tree leaf
the last of the autumn leaves
inside a leaf
the path of a snail
joins the dots
summer night
dessert dining out
possum in the peach tree
at a harbourside restaurant
the Pelican queues as well
we rest on a park bench
tummies bulging
practising for calf club day
two kids
simply
two kids
inlove
in the off season
the lights still sparkle
in the empty marina
boat lovers
the light s are always
shining for you in the marina
summer spring, winter and autumn
no matter how many boats
the lights still sparkle.
star marina lights
a mecca for boat lovers
in the on season
rows of boat moorings
in an empty marina
the lights still shine brightly
the recession
less boats in the marina
the light is still on the water
our shadows skip
as we join hands
on the beach
hands linked we walk
along the tidal pools
shadowes skip ahead
seed head
ready to pop
in summer
christmas lights
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