General Common Room

WHR August 2014

General Common Room (GCR)

A PLACE FOR SHARING

"General Common Room" is like a literary salon where WHR readers and guests will enjoy comparing notes, sharing the latest (or old) haiku and other works, making comments or presenting ideas etc. in a free, friendly and helpful way.

General Common Room is a cyber room which is Junior Common Room and Senior Common Room in Oxford or Cambridge tradition combined.

Therefore, haiku poets of all ages or any haiku hierarchy (if there is any such thing in this world) can freely discuss haiku topics, share or exchange their haiku works in a cosy and relaxed atmosphere.

In this issue, John W. Sexton of Ireland presents his sequences.

SEQUENCES

John W. Sexton (Ireland)

The Way Ahead Smudged

unnameable grey the shade

of the sky

… then blackbird

neigh-sayers yessing the fallow meadow

the way ahead smudged …

midges lazily

airborne

pigeons …

anonymous in front

of our eyes

starlings thread

a knot in above …

but what of Palestine?

Only for a Moment

churchyard leaf pile -

left slower than the right

a snail's two horns

sheered luck double glaziers fumble the onlookers to bits

cornflakes rattle

he puts the car

on his spoon

holding the sky perfectly still mouse in its eye hawk

only for a moment …

the architectures

of snowflakes

black flies graze sunlight on the rotting lily

Anyone

winter night

a shirt button

splits in two

moonlight …

she’s walking the stilts

of her long-legged shadow

anyone in

this polished casket?

fallen acorn

memory in the shingle …

veins

of a dried-up jellyfish

paying passenger …

a money spider

on my eyebrow

cold morning

thin cats held together

by their stripes

lark …

bringing pieces

of sky in its song

pulling acorns

and rain

from the tree

communion …

touching the horns

of a snail

midnight...

in the comb’s teeth

an earwig eating grease