I haven’t published any poems for some time, so I thought I’d share the following for #WorldPoetryDay.
These were written at the “Creativity with the Spirit” evening (13 Nov 2017) during Scottish Interfaith Week. They don’t follow a traditional Japanese 5-7-5 syllable structure (this departure is apparently quite common nowadays). “On the Spot”, as all six were written in the course of about 20 minutes, with no further editing.
flakes in the air
first snowfall
or volcanic eruption
mist in the air
forgot the brolly
up goes the hood
autumn morn
the Clyde like glass
leaf falling on water
springtime here
still bundled up
where are the blooms?
Saturday morn
lie-in expected
binmen disrupt
Shabbat morn on the bus
yet on the streets
life goes on
Glasgow, 21 March 2018