break in the rain
a flock of lorikeets loud
in the blossoming plum
—VANESSA PROCTOR
Wonderful!
I remember rainbow lorikeets flying straight at me, in their hundreds, at Mission Beach, incredible feeling.
They must have been a visual and aural sight in all that plum blossom, What a privilege! :-)
***
in the tropical air
rainbow lorikeets–
a mango restaurant closed
Alan Summers
note: Mission Beach, Queensland
Publication credit: Mirrors, USA ed. Jane Reichhold
Collections:
Moonlighting, Intimations Pamphlet Series, British Haiku Society, (1996)
sundog haiku journal: an australian year (sunfast press 1997 reprinted 1998
Anthology:
unfinished renga with Merrill Ann Gonzales
Into Sunlight (snow on the water, The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 1998)
June 12th, 2020 at 12:54 pm
break in the rain
a flock of lorikeets loud
in the blossoming plum
—VANESSA PROCTOR
Wonderful!
I remember rainbow lorikeets flying straight at me, in their hundreds, at Mission Beach, incredible feeling.
They must have been a visual and aural sight in all that plum blossom, What a privilege! :-)
***
in the tropical air
rainbow lorikeets–
a mango restaurant closed
Alan Summers
note: Mission Beach, Queensland
Publication credit: Mirrors, USA ed. Jane Reichhold
Collections:
Moonlighting, Intimations Pamphlet Series, British Haiku Society, (1996)
sundog haiku journal: an australian year (sunfast press 1997 reprinted 1998
Anthology:
unfinished renga with Merrill Ann Gonzales
Into Sunlight (snow on the water, The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 1998)