Drifting Sands Haibun – Poet's Hub

memories

Clive Bennett — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 07:57:52 +0000

wave after wave memories in a seashell

dusting my children’s bookshelves 
the adventures we had

a conker in my pocket this time last year

… from my Rocking Chair – postscript

a startled snipe

Clive Bennett — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 07:57:18 +0000

chough tumble
down the quarry face
rain turns to sleet

sharp frost underfoot a startled snipe

empty feeders
a frosty glint in
the robin’s eye

among the driftwood – memories

a cloudy night

Clive Bennett — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 07:56:45 +0000

backlighting
a cloudy night ...
blood moon

eating more than we should strawberry moon

flower moon
her scent of jasmine
in every room

among the driftwood – a startled snipe

hidden by clouds

Clive Bennett — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 07:56:22 +0000

night fishing 
a heron stalks the 
hunters moon

harvest moon hidden by clouds a plovers call

winter moon
a twinkle in the
snowman’s eye

among the driftwood – a cloudy night

gathering windfalls

Clive Bennett — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 07:55:26 +0000

a June bride
... mum’s dress
tinted peach

forest bathing fifty shades of (green)

after the storm
gathering windfalls ...
pinkfeet calling

among the driftwood – a plovers call

Richard Grahn — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 12:07:45 +0000

dff

… from my Rocking Chair – postscript

Clive Bennett — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 19:21:38 +0000

Postscript

Well that’s it! You were great company. I’m still writing haiku so maybe we’ll catch up with another reading sometime.

Thanks especially to editors – Paul Chambers and Joe Woodhouse (Wales Haiku Journal), Caroline Skanne (hedgerow: a journal of small poems), and Alan Summers (The Pan Haiku Review/Blo͞o Outlier Journal) who were the first to publish many of the haiku included here and continue to do so.

I’m not a prolific writer of haiku so it’s been an honour to have some of them taken up by other well known journals. Thanks then to the editors of …

failed haiku – a journal of English Senryu
Presence Haiku Journal
first frost – journal of haiku & senryu
tsuri-dōrō – a small journal of haiku, senryū
Scarlet Dragonfly Journal
民句 folk ku: a journal in honour of Masaoka Shiki

With special thanks to Colin Blundell, a former President of the British Haiku Society and fellow traveller along the byeways of ‘Jefferies Land’, who unwittingly, sparked my interest in writing haiku.

To Paul Chambers the then editor of the Wales Haiku Journal, and award winning haiku poet, who took my very naive, gawkish first attempts at writing haiku and helped me work them up into something worthy of the name.

And to Jodie Hawthorne of King River Press whose energy and enthusiasm for following her own dreams inspired me to follow mine.

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About the Author

‘I’m older than I look … and younger than I am’ — Clive Bennett

Sometime philosopher, thinker, dreamer, birdwatcher, poet, and occasional writer. Living and writing in beautiful North Wales.

in memoriam

we never talked …

undiagnosed
a difficult child …
if only he knew

the hurt inside
not knowing myself

(In the form of a cherita turbalik 1-3-2 (ai li))

wild camping

Clive Bennett — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 19:11:28 +0000

wild camping
a robin joins us
for breakfast

the bark of a raven echoing … the silence

best of friends
… beside the fire
teenage crush

among the driftwood – the blackbird’s song

skipping stones

Clive Bennett — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 19:07:59 +0000

wagtails skitter
around the yard
evening milking

skipping stones one two three fourfivesixseveneight

wagtails …
playing hopscotch
after school

across the meadow – part 8 (Contd #8)

marking time

Clive Bennett — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 19:00:18 +0000

Sometimes my haiku (senryu) stray into the realm of social commentary …

dossing among
the cardboard boxes
a homeless dog

dodging traffic jackdaws finish my breakfast croissant

happy hour
… marking time
a leaf falls !

among the driftwood – part 8