Thanks to covid and cancer, I spent most of last year (2020) away from the campus. Luckily, I live in a very rural area so I was able to do a lot of walking and interacting with Nature. This year’s collection of haikus are thus geographically constrained. I hope that some of them will strike a chord with some of you.
Memories
Oak, standing alone
Hoarding Nature’s memories,
Safe, beneath her bark.
February 6th 2020 Sutton
Nature prevails
Stalwart oak still stands.
Despite lightning’s flashing bolt
Nature will prevail
15 April 2020 Forton
Sentry duty
Oaken sentinels;
marking the perimeter
of the farmer’s field
Sutton 18th May 2020
Inner strength
Pointing at the sky
Twin stags, hoarding resources
Not ready to die
1st June 2020 Sutton
Fresh air
Busy buzzing bees
Old hedgerow oaks in a row
Loud Lapwings mewing
25th March 2020 Sutton
Covid-19
Together apart,
Socially distancing pines,
A sign of our times
24th March 2020 Sutton
Insect Heaven
Yellow furze crowned slope
basking in April’s warm sun.
Heaven for insects
22nd April 2020 Oulton by Sutton
Dandelions
Spherical fluffy
timely seed distributing,
dandelion clocks
4th May 2020 Sutton
Welcome trespassers
A part but apart,
encroaching the wheat desert;
delightful colour
16th August 2020 Sutton
Spring flush
Spring, pinkly blushing,
but soon to be clipped and hacked
By the groundsman’s shears.
Harper Adams 16th March 2020
Farmscape
Green ivy, brown thorn
frame the farmer’s verdant fields;
awaiting spring’s warmth
Sutton 28th March 2020
Sloe gin beckons
Blackthorn, lustrous white
brightening up our spring hedges;
later on, sloe gin
Sutton 10th April 2020
Wrekin view
Bird, high in the sky
Soars above the farmer’s fields;
Views Hazy Wrekin
Sutton April 3rd 2020
Grey
Sultry leaden sky.
Oh for a clap of thunder
To bring the rain down
May 26th 2020 Sutton
Wonder
Blue, glimpsed behind
the cloud rippled firmament.
A wondrous beauty
March 31st 2020 Sutton
Don't Forget the Roundabouts 