August Haiku
August 1-14
Haiku from Heather Lodge
by Damo Bullen
Every one of the mouths
Is beautiful – late in summer
A jazz group
—Tota
1 Sa
August begginings
Underneath a Roman sun
Life full energized
2 Su
Something flicks my hair
Daddylonglegs on the roof
Gollywopperworld
3 M
King of flowerkind
Purple-robed poppy-seeds
Bulb-bled opium
4 Tu
Tall stalks midst the weeds
Condom pea-pods red & green -
Radish gone to seed
5 W
O bearded wheatfields!
Sun-engolden'd one-by-one
Season's neon change
6 Th
By Whiteadder side
Rams grow spiral spectacles
Harvest-time scythes near
7 F
Green Country Empire
Tho yellow-fringed & oil-drop tinged
Leaves lurch forward's fade
8 Sa
Apples on the tree
Reddening & ripening
Young-fall floods the floor
9 Su
By Balfour's stream
Gallery of green trumpets
Dwarf dot-leaves between
10 M
Shhh … two naive fawns
Confused at first then bolting
Thro man-high nettles
11 Tu
Rainfall unceasing
All round Laccolith Traprain
Meadows waterlogg'd
12 W
Soggy thistleheads
Death-black drooping nettle leaves
Freshness follows rain
13 Th
Wet Whittinghame woods
Mushrooms rising from dank soil
Weedery decays
14 F
Rain-slick chicken coats
The wettest western August
Greenwood glistening
volume 13(15)
August 1, 2009
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