crossing the stream
on the next stepping-stone
a tiny frog
Author: Patricia Prime
Patricia has recently retired from teaching after 30 years, and now devotes some time to the reading recovery programme at her local school. She is the co-editor of the New Zealand haiku magazine Kokako and reviews editor of the online magazine Stylus. She writes short stories, poetry, reviews and articles, and likes to write collaborative poems with other poets.
Contact Patricia: pprime at ihug.co.nz.
art gallery
the rustle of her skirt
on the staircase
hail storm
tiny white balls
bounce on the deck
Martha Goldmine
rising from the tailings pond
a gaggle of geese
frosty morning
across the paddock
dog’s paw prints
through the window
sparrows wage war
over breadcrumbs
tide pool
the sea anemone closes
on a finger
stone church
graffitied on its wall
a broken heart
rolling on its back
in a freshly mown paddock
a white horse
we walk upstream –
sharing the river snag
herons and shags
in the sunshine
snatches of conversation
lowing of cows
winter gale
drawing the haiku boulder
without light or shade
splinters of sound
the carpenter’s hammer
crafts a bookcase
disused rail bridge
the bungy jumper’s
taut cable
bus driver
while passengers sleep
he admires the view
the old man
woken from sleep remembers
he has 10 great-grand kids
honeymoon over
in their suitcases
traces of confetti
a dragonfly
lifts off the crumpled weeds –
its shadow
pinned to the desk
by a calculator
the monthly bills