Haiku
Soft as velvet,
pure
green grows the moss on damp ground—
birds' special carpet.
Dainty
fairies dance
down mossy slopes of green, leave
fairy rings behind.
Sighted
from afar
moss carpet of green velvet—
birds' soft landing strip.
About Verica
Peacock, CR
Verica
Peacock was born in Zagreb ( Croatia ), in 1930, but lived
in Slavonski Brod with her aunt and uncle until, age13; they
were imprisoned. She was released on condition she spent the
rest of the war in an orphanage, while most of her family
perished in Auschwitz. She joined her mother in England in 1946,
learned English quickly and fell in love with the language. She
taught English, Drama, German and Commerce in Secondary schools.
At age 48, she had a massive stroke, but luckily recovered and
continued teaching. She wrote poetry as a teenager and took up
writing seriously after retirement, publishing her memoir,
The Find.
http://www.vericathefind.info
She has won first and second prizes for poetry in Writers’ Forum
and for haiku and tanka; also she has had haiku published in
Roumania, haiku and haibun in Croatia, articles on the
Paraolympics and travel, as well as stories in My Weekly. Her
hobbies are writing poetry, particularly haiku, translating her
own and Dobrisa Cesaric's and Vesna Parun's poetry, meeting
people, line dancing and caravanning. She is married to Graham
and they have a son and a daughter and four beloved grandsons.
She is a member of National Association of Writers' Groups (NAWG),
The Inn Scribers’ writing group in England and Spark in Croatia
.
This is Verica
Peacock's first appearance in Sketchbook.
