Poetry Moments--By Marilyn Ward--United Kingdom

i recline in grass
watching grey elephants
sail by

a field of gulls
take off
i catch them mid air

red leaves
fill my lens
with autumn

hot coffee
i read steamy topics
in the newspaper

burn toast
stuck in
another daydream

Marilyn Ward is a 62-year-old grandmother, who from childhood loved words, the language did not matter, any words would do. For the last two years, these words have been turned into poems. Her favourite form being haiku--brief,  beautiful, perfectly selected, words.