Once Upon A Time

Some more of my childhood memories recounted as gembun. ‘up in the attic’ was first published in the Wales Haiku Journal Autumn 2021 The recording of House Sparrow, by Dominique Guillerme is used here under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 license. This and many more can be found at - Xeno-Canto a website dedicated to sharing bird sounds from all over the world.

Some of my childhood memories recounted as Gembun. ‘wagtails skitter’ was first published in the Wales Haiku Journal Autumn 2021. The recording of a Whitethroat by Michael John O Mahony is used here under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/576026.

Some more of my bird-related haiku. ‘lights flicker’ was first published in hedgerow #133 and ‘blue moon’ in the summer edition (2022) of the Wales Haiku Journal. The recording of a Skylark by Cureau Hervé is used here under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/729685.

Some more of my haiku in the form of Gembun. A Gembun, created by ai li in 1997, is made up of either a one-word first link or anything up to one sentence, to be capped by a haiku of up to four lines.  The Gembun has to include an element of suggestion in either the opening sentence, the haiku or both. The cover art is of a painting by Deb Anderson - a 12"x12" oil on board painting of the Night Sky and the Seven Sisters.

Some more of my haiku in the form of Gembun. A Gembun, created by ai li in 1997, is made up of either a one-word first link or anything up to one sentence, to be capped by a haiku of up to four lines. The Gembun has to include an element of suggestion in either the opening sentence, the haiku or both.

Some of my haiku about birds … ’coot skitter’ was first published in the Wales Haiku Journal (Summer 2020), and ‘daytime moon’ published just this year in the inaugural edition (April 2022) of Scarlet Dragonfly. While ‘swift scream’ first appeared in my eChapbook ‘Feathered Skies’ (2020) and later also featured on Charlotte Digregorio’s Daily Blog (2022).

Another of my haiku inspired by the prose of Richard Jefferies. The recording of a Yellowhammer by Jarek Matusiak is used here under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 license. This and many more can be found at - Xeno-Canto a website dedicated to sharing bird sounds from all over the world.

Some more of my haiku in the form of Gembun. A Gembun, created by ai li in 1997, is made up of either a one-word first link or anything up to one sentence, to be capped by a haiku of up to four lines. The Gembun has to include an element of suggestion in either the opening sentence, the haiku or both.

Some more readings of my haiku - memories of long ago

A pairing of my haiku with an extract from Wildlife in a Southern County—Jefferies’ essays of happier times in the hills and vales of the Wessex Downs