cherry buds
the blue tit’s beak
stuffed with string
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Katrina Shepherd
Katrina loves being in the natural world. Her poems appear in publications including Frogpond, Presence and The Heron's Nest.
She is a grateful Haiku Foundation Touchstone Award recipient.
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You really do need that trip to the optician's Alan! You wrote spring – I thought you wrote string, and gave it a like! Check your diary, I'll give the optician a ring in the morning…..xx
Yes, spring and Spring and then it was how long is a piece of string. :-)
cherry blossoms
despite
dreary fog
Like your blue titted to haiku!
mute swan
circles the pond
ripples abound~~~
Love that line about their beaks being stuffed with Spring!
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all those red apples amongst the blue tit
Alan Summers
Publication credits:
Bones – a journal for contemporary haiku Issue 0.1 2012 reissued 2013
Roadrunner 12.3 MASKS 4 (2012)
Collection:
Does Fish-God Know (Yet To Be Named Free Press 2012)
I love the fact I misread the haiku:
cherry buds
the blue tit’s beak
stuffed with string
—KATRINA SHEPHERD
Now on revisiting and reading it correctly I get two wonderful haiku for the price of one!!!
:-)
warm regards,
Alan
…..then I went and misread your comment (as string) Alan, and gave it a like! D'you fancy a joint trip to the opticians?!
Lovely ku, Katrina – a great twist, beautifully executed – really jumps off the page.
Ah, but it is string, and very neatly and nicely clever play on spring/Spring. :-)
You really do need that trip to the optician's Alan! You wrote spring – I thought you wrote string, and gave it a like! Check your diary, I'll give the optician a ring in the morning…..xx
Yes, spring and Spring and then it was how long is a piece of string. :-)
muddy waters…
all dressed up
nowhere to go
I read this as stuffed with spring which is a wonderful image! ?
marion
I liked the last line "stuffed with string". It speaks of so many things that seem simple and common and yet most of the time we fail to notice them.