Here I collect small, but polished, observational pieces/moments of experience - in a nutshell haiku/senryu or other forms of micropoetry and very short fiction.
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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
out of uniform –
on the bus home the nurse
rolls a cigarette
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siesta
emptiness in the heart
of the forest
This is an image I created for my blog post ‘Blind Spots’ at Haiku Matters.
Taken on the 18th of May 2013, and manipulated using Be Funky, it is of a medieval Gate Wall, in Rothenburg ob der Tauber.
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Romantische Strasse –
lowering the price
of diesel
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Photo: Rothenburg ob der Tauber, best preserved medieval city in southern Germany.
deep shade
the teeth behind
her coy smile
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Mother’s Day
the missing iris
from her earring
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Photo: 11 May 2013, Diessen am Ammersee
rain jacket
pots at the clay fest
collecting water
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A photo from today’s Pottery market at Diessen am Ammersee, Bavaria
(10 May 2013)
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weak sun
sky the colour of water
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homemade jam —
taste of redcurrants
holding the sun