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My Other Haiku

These have been published on Facebook or Twitter, but not selected by a Journal Editor unless stated.  Photography is one of my hobbies and I like to pair my own images with my haiku.

Ancestry DNA
my father is

my father


words/image © Sue Courtney


published in Leaf – Journal of The Daily Haiku, Issue Two, December 2023


https://leafjournal.io/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/LEAF-Issue-Two-Single-page-view.pdf


homework—
i memorise the mnemonic

by taste


words/image © Sue Courtney


published in Leaf – Journal of The Daily Haiku, Issue One, June 2023


https://leafjournal.io/.../2023/06/LEAF-One-June-2023.pdf


Christmas countdown ♪♫♪

      ♫♪♫ and a kereru

                  in a kowhai tree


© words / image Sue Courtney
23 Dec 2022


The kereru | kerekū | New Zealand Pigeon is endemic to New Zealand. 
More here


NZ's native kowhai trees have stunning yellow blooms most commonly in spring.

first of December . . .
the old pohutukawa
blooms on cue


words / photo © Sue Courtney
1 Dec 2022


The pohutukawa tree (Metrosideros excelsa) is also known as New Zealand's Christmas tree as it is often in bloom at christmas time.

new year's morning
a river of sunlight
parts the sea


words / photo © Sue Courtney
1 Jan 2022


#haiku at sunrise, Orewa Beach, New Zealand


drive thru car wash . . .
imagining I’m driving
through a snowstorm


words / photo © Sue Courtney
30 Nov 2021


#haiku for winter in Auckland's early summer




water restrictions lifted
after 18 months . . .
spring rain

24 October 2021. The first weekend sprinklers are allowed to be used in the garden again after an 18-month ban (in Auckland), it rains and rains and rains. My apple tree in blossom is brightening up an otherwise gloomy grey day.

words / photo © Sue Courtney

tuturiwhatu:
hey – look at me, look at me …
new orange robes

Loosely based on a haiku by Issa, the tuturiwhatu is the New Zealand dotterel, with the males colouring up splendidly for breeding.
More here.

words / photo © Sue Courtney