.
Wonderful!
.
Some of us seek silence or stillness and some of us shun it.
.
.
stillness
the kayak
breaks
the river’s
glassy skin
—RICHARD ST. CLAIR
Very painterly, just like Peter Doig's famous artwork, and that edge of tension between peace and quiet and calamity.
Just as there's tension in a water surface so there is in life elsewhere.
.
.
our clouds of breath
the river bank reveals
its water vole
Alan Summers
From the haibun Strange Bed
Blithe Spirit (Journal of the British Haiku Society)
Vol. 27 no. 1 (February 2017)
and
sewer rat
breaking the water surface
its shut eye
Alan Summers
First Publication credit:
Haiku Spirit #16 Eire, (1999)
Anthology: The New Haiku (Snapshot Press 2002)
Collection: Does Fish-God Know (YTBN Press 2012)
January 8th, 2018 at 8:57 am
mute swan
circles the pond
ripples abound~~~
January 8th, 2018 at 9:53 am
Beautiful.
January 8th, 2018 at 3:51 pm
Nicely done,
I can hear the very faint sound
I wish it were warm enough here to get mine out
January 9th, 2018 at 4:22 am
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Wonderful!
.
Some of us seek silence or stillness and some of us shun it.
.
.
stillness
the kayak
breaks
the river’s
glassy skin
—RICHARD ST. CLAIR
Very painterly, just like Peter Doig's famous artwork, and that edge of tension between peace and quiet and calamity.
Just as there's tension in a water surface so there is in life elsewhere.
.
.
our clouds of breath
the river bank reveals
its water vole
Alan Summers
From the haibun Strange Bed
Blithe Spirit (Journal of the British Haiku Society)
Vol. 27 no. 1 (February 2017)
and
sewer rat
breaking the water surface
its shut eye
Alan Summers
First Publication credit:
Haiku Spirit #16 Eire, (1999)
Anthology: The New Haiku (Snapshot Press 2002)
Collection: Does Fish-God Know (YTBN Press 2012)
January 9th, 2018 at 8:30 pm
I feel and hear the water, air in the trees. Beautiful poem truly immersive.