winterroom

I still think about this a lot.

decoding
the dance of her sister
she found this flower

#haikufeels (decode)
#haiku

all along the bank
fearing the storm's
moved the stepping stones

#haikufeels (bank)
#haiku

saving the glossiest paper
for pictures
of the eclipse

#haikufeels (gloss)
#haiku #senryu

our idle chitchat
shamed by the industry
of the squirrels

#haikufeels (idle)
#haiku
#poem

I'm an old man
who lives in the hills
but I feel the tug
as each spring tide
disrupts a memory

#TankaThursday (memory)
#Tanka

😄

a small boy
has been eating jam
suddenly

all the door handles
in the house
are sticky

#haikufeels (jam)
#haiku
(family folklore)

Thank you!

my cookbook falls open
at a favourite recipe
I can pick you out
in a crowd of thousands
my love

#TankaThursday (page)
#tanka

in the deepest winter
of my life I am playing
on a frozen lake
the heat in my veins
is the fear of open water

#TankaThursday (frozen)
#tanka

hard frost
undoing a shoe
to shake out a pebble

#haikufeels (undo)
#haiku

New Year
closing the garden gate
with a click

#haikufeels (close)
#haiku

wave after wave
rainwater weaves
in the gutter

#haiku

drumbeat and heartbeat
must both come to a
reverberating stop
Applause! and the Universe
heads for the exit, humming

#TankaThursday (drumbeat)
#tanka

while I'm talking
below the table
I'm twisting and twisting
this paper handkerchief
no one is listening

#haikufeels (fidget)
#tanka

I'm mesmerised
by her finger spinner
she is somewhere
beyond Saturn

#haikufeels (fidget)
#senryu ? #tanka ? #haiku

taking off my watch
and fidgeting
my words fall into place

#haikufeels (fidget)
#senryu #haiku

cancel all leave!
the crows are mobbing
a hawk

#haikufeels (cancel)
#haiku

Possibly @anatomicalcat.bsky.social ?

snow falling
the dealer dealing
from an infinite deck

#haikufeels (deal)
#haiku

off the street, the rooftops 
my day, my dreams, my life
the hail bouncing

#haikufeels (hail)
#haiku

Alzeimer's...
all the tags
have fallen off
the presents

#haikufeels (tag)
#senryu #haiku

we scuttle
without thought
for the cloudless sky
a bolt of blue satin
from a high shelf

#TankaThursday (blue sky)
#tanka

so many ideas
the crunch of gravel
under my heels

#haikufeels (idea)
#haiku

An entry in a burial register for George Field aged 8 months son of Walter Field of Matthew St. Other information shown - the grave reference A378 and the depth of the grave - 5 feet.

A map of Wardsend Cemetery in Sheffield (UK) showing the locations of the graves of 4 members of the FIELD family. Other added information includes the burial locations of other family members in other cemeteries in Sheffield, and one who died in Orange, New York, USA.

#cemeteries
Buried OTD Jan 1st 1862 @wardsendcemetery.bsky.social #Sheffield George FIELD aged 8 months. He and other family members are buried in public graves. Others are buried elsewhere in Sheffield or abroad. In this 'constellation' I can bring them together in a virtual, digital, memorial.

she sells me her smile
and adds
her merchandise

#haikufeels (sell)
#senryu #haiku

Ryōkan sleeps...
lasers reflect
from the moon

#haikufeels (steal)
#haiku

the dishwasher
rumbles on for an hour
in an unknown tongue 
and I know true things
that no one else will ever know

#TankaThursday (true)
#tanka

the beech buds and I
are holding our breath
until spring

#haiku
#micropoetry