22 August 2011

Haiku


                                                             
weathering 

a summer shower
and in my fifty-fourth year
I’m getting thinner


Cambodia

ghosts stalk pagodas
in their hunger crying out
children, please feed us


dying

water on a leaf
and I want to cry out for mum
who no more feels pain        
                                                                                              
  
cliff edge, Blackheath

the white cloud’s rising
I’m in it, like it or not
then all disappears


after fire

tree bones stick out black
through the pearly skin of mist
begging for green

                                                                    




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