It’s St David’s Day, and they say Tri chynnig i Gymro, so it seems appropriate to post three photos, all taken in Wales.
In every town and village
grey stones
grey skies
Tag: hai’ku
watch the birdie*
Bright plastic pegs
perch along the clothes line:
a flock of tiny parrots
(*Perhaps the post title should have been “wash the birdie”!)
valentine
I know that you’re
a thousand miles away,
yet each grey car I glimpse
demands I look again
kisses
As Valentine’s day approaches, the conversation turns to love poetry; revisiting an old poem, I found this fragment:
So many kisses left
on the station steps: kisses
scattered en la boca
del metro.
If the metro station in question were the one in the photo, I can only assume there was a tango playing in the background.
On a lingustic tangent, I really wish bus stops were underground so they also had a “boca”: then I could have called the post “besos & buses” and pondered the association between the Spanish besar and the English “buss”.
poems from the pueblo
Some of the short poems from this blog have been brought together with others in an eBook: Poems from the pueblo: Haiku & assorted fragments.
There are several formats available for download:
• FREE iPad-only version from the iBookStore. Watch the publisher’s video to find out more about this fully-enhanced ebook:
(The video has music, so you may want to check your volume control.)
Just read/watched/listened to your #PoemsFromThePueblo. What a little treasure box! And love the whole interactive thing. – Elizabeth Hopkinson, fantasy writer, sent via twitter from her Hidden Grove.
• Download the FREE ePub version direct from Tantamount. (This version includes embedded sound files which will only be accessible if your reader supports sound.)
• Or buy it from Amazon.
I’m hoping there will be more poems from the pueblo – both further collections of fragments and, eventually, a collection of the more substantial poems I have written while living in the Spanish hinterlands.
You’ll find full information about my books over on my website. Feedback and reviews are always appreciated.
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