After the hard day: March haiku 2011

heatwave
my own sweat
stings

3/3/11


early autumn breeze
softening
early morning heat

6/3/11


tsunami
advancing across the screen
unfathomable

******

can turn off
the TV news, but not
the images

12/3/11


even the angels
tender-hearted
cry now for Japan

13/3/11


even after quakes
even after tsunamis
there are butterflies

14/3/11


After the hard day
and late night
at last my soft bed!

******

A cloudy morning.
I ask which way the wind blows.
Is it from Japan?

18/3/11


Elizabeth’s dead
the night sky very dark
and bright with stars

******

can’t die, is dead
just eight years older than me
marker of my life

******

absent now
who was always a presence
all my life

24/3/11


with autumn here
must my life force
start to fade?

(a response to some burgeoning-Spring haiku on facebook)


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as my days dwindle
I fall into dreamtime
you spring, light, awake

27/3/11