bomb site
...always
the singing flies
___________
...always
the singing flies
___________
Christmas card
from the Holy Land -
they've coloured the snow red
from the Holy Land -
they've coloured the snow red
two dead crows -
the raised chalice
of their empty nest
___________
the raised chalice
of their empty nest
___________
snagged
on the barbed wire
wool and wind
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on the barbed wire
wool and wind
___________
Aleppo flattened -
my neighbour whines
over a bee sting
my neighbour whines
over a bee sting
___________
John McDonald is a retired stone-mason who came to
haiku in the mid-nineties. He fell in love with the genre immediately. Being a
writer in the Scots language this genre fitted so well with Scots: a language
steeped in rural life and having a natural succinctness to it. John has his own
blog in Scots, with English versions: http://zenspeug.blogspot.com He enjoys being involved in translations,
working with the very fine Irish poet Gabriel Rosenstock on various ventures,
the most recent being translations into Irish and Scots of the great haiku poet
Buson: Moon over Tagoto and has appeared in many anthologies.
Five interesting Haiku John, Christmas card from the Holy
ReplyDeleteLand freaked me out. I don't like blood red snow.
snagged me like barbed wire, wool and wind.
Keep em comming.
Yancy
Dear John,
ReplyDeleteThese haiku are powerful,one and all.
Michael