Contents
 

 

 

Sketchbook 

Brian Strand, UK

 

 


Cinqku Triplet

#1

nesting
rooks among
the bursting buds—
stick by stick, Ides of March
unfold

#14

blossom,
a welcome
springtime emblem—
the foretaste of fruitage
to come

#28

winter
turns to Spring
high in the trees—
the rookery erupts
in noise

 

 


A Quintain of Cinquains

Winter Turns To Spring

Sleeping
osier shoots
burst forth with camomile,
as early Spring mornings manage
a smile.

 

 

Easter

Springtime
daylight unfolds
those soft mist, mild days of
blue-bell haze, growing wild beneath
God's gaze.

 

 

Birdsong



Quiet
greets the Spring morn,
until a shaft of light
diffuses night into a dawn
chorus.

 

 

Good Friday

Blossom
on pavements die,
as petals from a tree,
a death recalled, just once a year—
maybe?

 

 

A Spring Day Testimony

Across
the vale, voices
in Easter day worship,
complemented a soul being
mended.
 

 


Fibonacci Poems

Nature's Irony

Just
out
of reach-
blackberries
above the nettles.



Arachnids

Wind
blown
spider
filaments
riding on the breeze-
ballooning on a world wide web.

 

 


top of page

 

1