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