frost-rimed sock
by the railroad track —
the paths walked to get here
The Walk Home, Susan Lee Kerr. ‘Step through the Awareness Gate and join her’ Alba Publishing.
click of the gate
click of the gate
and my daughter’s heels –
two a.m.
The Walk Home. @AlbaPublishing, ‘entry into a world of ecstatic openness’
crowned Buddha
crowned Buddha
in a king’s garden,
what wisdom!
your right earlobe jewelled
with birddropping
The Walk Home, ‘offers the accepting spirit an entry’
winter sunset
even the gas works scaffold
gilded rosy pink
#welovechiswickhouse The Walk Home, Susan Lee Kerr. ‘an appreciation of all aspects of life’
you, moon, behave!
you, moon, behave!
I drive this winding road,
you’re bounding left and right
.The Walk Home. ‘a world of ecstatic openness,’ Colin Blundell (President of The British Haiku Society).
sun and whiskey smell
sun and whiskey smell
of roses, September’s blue
and final day
The Walk Home, Susan Lee Kerr. Alba Publishing. ‘beautifully crystallised moments’
rather than follow
Basho’s footsteps North, I rock
my baby to sleep
The Walk Home. Haiku, senryu, tanka. A retrospective, thirty years of writing in the world of haiku. Alba Publishing. ‘an entry into a world of ecstatic openness.’
the honey jar
the honey jar
brushes the vase and spills
rose petals
The Walk Home. Haiku, senryu, tanka. A retrospective, thirty years of writing in the world of haiku. Alba Publishing. ‘beautifully crystallised moments expressed in haiku form.’
1st June: publication day
In a moment, over a lifetime… the carton, the scissors, the opening — gasp, it’s real! The Walk Home has arrived at my home. 1st June 2020, my haiku collection officially published.
May morning greenfly
May morning greenfly
in my pink lipstick — you chose
a beautiful death
Soon, in June, The Walk Home, a collection of haiku winnowed from my thirty years of writing in the world of haiku. Published by Alba Publishing.
