Pages

Monday 21 December 2009

Hi All,

I'm taking a short break from blogging, and will be back online in early January.

I'd like to take this opportunity of wishing everyone a Happy Christmas and all the best for 2010.

Kind regards, Frank...

Friday 18 December 2009

Wednesday 16 December 2009

Saturday 12 December 2009

Wednesday 9 December 2009

Sunday 6 December 2009

Saturday 3 October 2009

Dear All,

I'm taking a break from Blogging for a short while. Many thanks for all your very kind comments and observations over the last 9 months.

Happy Blogging my friends!!!

Kind regards, Frank...

Friday 2 October 2009

Monday 28 September 2009

Saturday 26 September 2009

chill cathedral…
pulsing through me
this evensong bell

Thursday 24 September 2009

Monday 21 September 2009

Saturday 19 September 2009

Thursday 17 September 2009

Sunday 13 September 2009

Friday 11 September 2009

Wednesday 9 September 2009

Sunday 6 September 2009

Thursday 3 September 2009

Tuesday 1 September 2009

stiff breeze…
flickering dry twigs

in a spider’s web

Saturday 29 August 2009

Tuesday 25 August 2009

Saturday 22 August 2009

Wednesday 19 August 2009

bus shelter…
the arbitrary shapes
of dropped litter

Tuesday 11 August 2009

rustle of trees…
in the river’s current
a flotilla of leaves

Thursday 6 August 2009

bit by bit
the froth from the weir
splinters away

Tuesday 28 July 2009

end of spring—
in the shallows a swan
in a pool of light

Friday 24 July 2009

gliding to ground
a wood pigeon downs

a grape in one go

Tuesday 21 July 2009

stony footpath…
along its edge flashes
of pink campion

Friday 17 July 2009

old red bridge…
weed drifting nowhere
with the river’s flow

Monday 13 July 2009

Friday 10 July 2009

thunder & lightning
hailstones bouncing off
the window panes

Friday 3 July 2009

Tuesday 30 June 2009

a bird’s shadow
ripples across the river…
damselflies & weed

Saturday 27 June 2009

horses by the river…
silhouettes twist the world
this way & that

Wednesday 24 June 2009

Sunday 21 June 2009

setting sun…
streaks of gold light
crisscross a grey sky

Thursday 18 June 2009

Monday 15 June 2009

Wednesday 10 June 2009

broad daylight
a fox walks nonchalantly
past the front door


Sunday 7 June 2009

Thursday 4 June 2009

Monday 1 June 2009

navy blue twilight…
rats on the compost

scatter as we pass

Friday 29 May 2009

Tuesday 26 May 2009

track near the sea
keck flowers glow

as night descends

Saturday 23 May 2009

Wednesday 20 May 2009

Sunday 17 May 2009

Thursday 14 May 2009

song of the lark…
on the grass footpath

a snail’s mute world

Monday 11 May 2009

Friday 8 May 2009

Monday 4 May 2009

Saturday 2 May 2009

Thursday 30 April 2009

Tuesday 28 April 2009

buzzing my head
............a small black fly…
clock-watching all day long

Sunday 26 April 2009

sudden gust…
pink blossom cascades

into abstract patterns

Friday 24 April 2009

open car windows…
two men squabble
and gesticulate

Wednesday 22 April 2009

Monday 20 April 2009

sunlit plaza...
two butterflies mirror
each other’s flight

Saturday 18 April 2009

just by the step
windswept leaves & blossoms

in the shape of a tear

Thursday 16 April 2009

screech of gulls
each wave conveys a streak

of the setting sun

Tuesday 14 April 2009

Monday 13 April 2009

at the symphony’s end
a moment of silence…
snoring & applause

Sunday 12 April 2009

Halloween dusk
the city gent sports

a comical nose

Saturday 11 April 2009

Friday 10 April 2009

HAIGA # 25


a stifling day
in the bluest of skies

a burst of white wings

Thursday 9 April 2009

after the fly past
the planes’ contrails
drift into a rainbow

Tuesday 7 April 2009

inside windowsill—
the dead fly has breezed

to a new position
spring evening—
a fox sniffs a few cars
in the empty road

Monday 6 April 2009

Saturday 4 April 2009

a new week…
black-headed seagulls circle

a chill blue sky
first light
a grey squirrel lands
on the bird table

Thursday 2 April 2009

HAIGA # 23


daybreak—
a ring of light surrounds
the seated dog

Tuesday 31 March 2009

whirr of traffic—through
white nets a white cat
in stalking mode

Monday 30 March 2009

Sunday 29 March 2009

new year’s day
in a black sky the moon
and a crane’s red lights

Saturday 28 March 2009

first bet of the year
my greyhound tumbles
out of the trap

Friday 27 March 2009

laid up at home…
bananas in a bowl
turning black
old bell tower
through its open window
ropes swinging wildly

Thursday 26 March 2009

Wednesday 25 March 2009

open town park—just
one yellow crocus amongst
a carpet of blue

Tuesday 24 March 2009

without thinking
the self-adhesive stamp
gets a lick

Monday 23 March 2009

day just breaking
for a moment the cry
of passing geese
haiku discussion
my chain of thought ruined

by two battling coots

Saturday 21 March 2009

HAIGA # 20


twilight shadows…
a fox cub starts to play
with the dog on a lead

Thursday 19 March 2009

in half-light
on the pathway

two crushed daffodils

Wednesday 18 March 2009

dusk descending
between two blocks of flats

a landscape of light

Monday 16 March 2009

HAIGA # 19


chippy in the square
deftly a gull lands and eats
a plate of cold scraps

Saturday 14 March 2009

art exhibition...
disappointment written
all over your face
thinking of you
slowly the sugar sinks
through the coffee’s froth
strawberry fields—
a pigeon walks across
the “imagine” circle

Wednesday 11 March 2009

station concourse…
a pigeon slips & slides
across the tiled floor

Tuesday 10 March 2009

Monday 9 March 2009

an icy wind—above
the town’s clamour
the cawing of crows

Sunday 8 March 2009

shop window—a boy
waves gingerly
to the automaton cobbler

Saturday 7 March 2009

steady rain
a crow flies slow and low
across the empty road
drifting…….....floating
listening with my eyes
to the
"Pines of Rome"

Bumping Along - 2001

Friday 6 March 2009

standing in the bowl
of a dead volcano
listening intently…


Haiku Quarterly - November 1996

Wednesday 4 March 2009

remembrance sunday
nimrod and rain...rain

...............and nimrod

Blithe Spirit - Vol. 8 #1 - March 1998

Tuesday 3 March 2009

Monday 2 March 2009

a grey sunday…
and the mono-sound

of a singing drunk

Sunday 1 March 2009

a white morning
through swirling mist
the red of a pheasant


Snapshots 4 - 1998