Spain goes from fiesta to fiesta and here in the village the first proper working week after the long summer has ended with celebrations in honour of Nuestra Señora la Virgen del Pilar de Arenas.
Tag: hai’ku
star’ku
Watching shooting stars,
your arm around my shouldersNo need for wishes
For those who are looking for more perseids, I posted a few other pieces on the subject of shooting stars this time last year.
fragmented sunshine
Perhaps unsurprisingly given the heat, everything slows down for the summer in Spain, so I’m finally getting time to think about revising some old poems.
This fragment comes from a far longer piece, but I think it’s worth posting it as a stand-alone, particularly as the blog is in dire need of an update:
the sun flowers
and sheds its petalled light
into the corners
of our unswept lives
cat’ku
Looking for something summery to post for San Juan, I found this:
sunny verandah
a scattering
of kittens and kibble
The photo appears to have been taken on June 24th, two years ago. The blog post for that day is a proper Midsummer Night poem: noche de san juan.
at the western edge of Europe…
palm fronds prick at a volcanic sky
and bright hibiscus
leer at pink-skinned foreigners.
don't confuse the narrator 