an open field: river 2012

Saturday

river 2012 - 21

the smell of fresh laundry
at what's left of the old hospital wall

a seagull dancing
on the grass in Vivian Park

the sun wrapped in cloud
one minute and free the next

even in the cold face of the wind
laughter and the smell of the sea

4 comments:

Barb21 January 2012 at 21:16
A sensory delight - all sound marvelous to me. Especially the part about he sea!
ReplyDelete
Cassam22 January 2012 at 14:24
I've read through all your small stones and really enjoyed them.What lovely writing ,I feel as if I am beside you experiencing them all.
ReplyDelete
Frank...22 January 2012 at 15:04
Indeed a sensory delight...
ReplyDelete
Lynne Rees22 January 2012 at 19:56
Thanks so much for stopping by, Barb, Cassam and Frank. I'm currently at home in Wales and I'm very pleased these glimpses speak to you.
ReplyDelete

Add comment

About me

I am the author of a novel, The Oven House, a collection of poetry, Learning How to Fall, Messages, a volume of short, collaborative prose, a psycho-geography of my hometown in South Wales, UK, Real Port Talbot (Seren Books), and The Hungry Writer, Stories, Recipes & Writing Prompts, based on my blog of the same name.

I started working with haiku forms - haiku, senryu, tanka, rengay and haibun - in 2006, acted as the haibun editor at Simply Haiku during 2008 and 2009, and was co-editor, with Jo Pacsoo, of the British Haiku Society's Haibun Anthology, The Unseen Wind (2010). In 2011 I was joint editor, with Nigel Jenkins and Ken Jones, of another country, haiku poetry from Wales (Gomer Press) and one of the adjudicators for the haibun section of the inaugural British Haiku Award.

During 2014 and 2015 I was submissions and commissioning editor, along with Bob Lucky, at CHO: Contemporary Haibun Online and my haibun collection, forgiving the rain, is available from Snapshot Press, Britain's leading independent publisher of haiku writing.