Andrzej Dembończyk, PL

 

 

Haiku   In My Garden   a white lawn— less and less cherry petals on the trees     sunny morning— under a tree ants build a new anthill     may afternoon— with cockchafer* in his beak the blackbird struts     two butterflies— a cabbage butterfly and his shadow     an old tree— through the leaves I see pigeons in the nest     trapped— fly, butterfly, grasshopper in one spider web     blackcurrant bushes— so many ladybirds on its leaves     chaffing song— jumping from branch to branch a pair of birds     *cockchafer—a large flying European beetle destructive to vegetation; sometimes called May beetle, May bug, billy witch, or spang beetle; genus—Melolontha     About Andrzej Dembończyk, PL   Andrzej Dembończyk lives in Silesia, Poland. He is an  employee of the local government. He began writing haiku and haiga in 2008.   This is Andrzej Dembończyk's first appearance in Sketchbook.