Back for this week or maybe more.
Eye shining like flame
bright through countless soft feathers
focussing on you
small human you’re being watched
by this skilful predator
Tag: Lazy Poets Thursday Tanka
Lazy Poet’s Thursday Tanka
Late summer calling
with the lowest hum of heat,
from earth and from air.
Hay harvested, the soil waits
for a thunderstorm to break.
Lazy Poet’s Thursday Tanka for Tish
Deep colour spectrum
scribbled with arachnid silk.
Textured rays, fibres
terra pots disintegrate
and crumble back to grey dust.
Tish took and edited this fascinating photo, which she named ‘Through a Web Darkly’, and very kindly offered it as inspiration for our writing. I’d written this before I had a reply with permission to post! Isn’t it a good image? I love it, thanks Tish.
Lazy Poet’s Thursday Tanka
Stilt stands listening
with its sixth sense on alert
stamping its pink feet
divining oysters for lunch
from beneath the brackish pool
Lazy Poet’s Thursday Tanka
On a bright evening
that was nearly abandoned
thank you dear Exmouth
when the day seemed unlikely
you shared heaven with me
Lazy Poet’s Thursday Tanka
inquisitive eyes
watching waiting full of hope
for just the one chance
to spread its wings and soar high
on a swift flight to freedom
Lazy Poets Thursday Tanka
Fallow deer at rest
replete with summers bounty
proud of your palmate antlers
and your silky dappled skin
fit prize for a big eyed doe
Lazy Poets Thursday Tanka
effervescent fizz
of the salt stinging ocean
winter or summer
giving or taking away
our lives daily leftovers
Lazy Poet’s Thursday Tanka
Let there be bounty
seeds and grains in abundance
for little brown wings
to spread safely through winter
and so reverse the decline
Lazy Poets Thursday Tanka
Ponder the season
with crispy leaves underfoot
of gold and copper
when you tiptoe cross the grass
to an autumn pleasure dome
Lucid Gypsy 