Ilkley Literature Festival ‘Fringe’– we’re on again. Suggestions please.
The trees are just beginning to colour for autumn; the rowan berries are ready for the birds. Pictured today from our sitting room window She’s done it again: Ruxandra, the wonderful leader of our...
View ArticleA special day doing nothing special. A haiku
View from our ‘front’ window. Most of the trees are still largely green. Few leaves have fallen The obvious signs of autumn are coming late this year. Most of the leaves are still on the trees, even...
View ArticleMy complete haiku, and tanka, output
My haiku which have been posted on this blog over the past five years or more have been collected together, something I’ve been meaning to do for a while. They will be put on a page under the ‘haiku’...
View ArticleAutumn fairy story &“something completely different”– tanka
Last evening our writers’ club Writing on the Wharfe was ‘performing’ in the Ilkley Literature Festival ‘Fringe’ with the title Every leaf tells a story. I had intended to read my first attempt at a...
View ArticleHaiku? I don’t think so. Henri Cartier-Bresson caught the essence visually....
Haiku (translation): an ancient pond a frog jumps in the splash of water Matsuo Basho, 1686 Anyone who has been following my blog for a while will know I like to write ‘short’ and have sometimes...
View Article俳文 – haibun #0
俳文 This is my first attempt at haibun. Discovering an old ‘diary’ of my first two months in Romania, in 1993, bringing to mind events and emotions I had entirely forgotten, and reawakening those I had...
View Article川柳 Senryū, 俳句 haiku, 俳文 haibun. Senbun?
Today I discovered senryū, thanks to Ellen Grace Olinger (a blogging poet I’ve followed for a few years) and, through her, Charlotte Digregorio. (Of course whether those Japanese characters in my title...
View ArticleFirst story with a fountain pen – radiology and fantasy – and Japanese...
My love affair with the fountain pen has continued and having written my first poem with it I’ve now hand written my first story with it and, what is more, read from the exercise book draft at our...
View ArticleNew Year blues; ‘haiku’, short story
As I’ve said before, I no longer consider the 5-7-5 ‘verses’ I write to be haiku but I think it’s as much a haiku as any in English I’ve seen on internet. It was written for a special friend, not a...
View ArticleDécima: celebrating a birthday which changed my life
This Saturday we are ‘celebrating’ the 5th birthday of our writers’ club, Writers on the Wharfe (now ‘virtual’ of course). Formation of the club was life-changing for me although for most of my working...
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