Such a long time since I turned mind to writing creatively. Could not resist this invitation from Tammy. She deconstructed Haiku. We didn’t have to do the form: Every first line of Haiku has 5 syllables, the second line has 7 syllables, and the third has 5 syllables. This was an English invention – it does not exist in Japanese. But there should be a shift, and usually the first line sets the scene.
Milk bottle white legs
lay in buttercup rich grass of
a cow meadow
Avenue of walnut trees planted
imagined then the shade
they give us now
Across a barley field
a Norman church tower rises
and surprises a thousand year view
Cow Parsley dances above
what remains of a chapel wall
of solid flint, I lean against.
Kalikellett 