John North

Every day I try

- between earth and sea -
to pluck you up

from the careworn no man's land
- between earth and sea -
every day I try

but you are sand
and you fall
between my fingers

- between earth and sea -
every day I try.

#micropoetry

Cross... head... genuflect... Football culture blog by John North. Honest and philosophical 5 minute reads

For a few months now I've made a habit once a week of sitting down and writing about football. It keeps me sane.
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Mary, Mother of God,
oil paint over chipped gesso,
fading resin, eyes raised

praying for the roof
of Cumbrian slate
that it might not cave in;

for the sandstone plinth
that it might not give way
beneath her feet;

that when it fails
we will go to pray on the hills
and that I will take her with me.

Still and quiet, God,
the stars on a clear night -
Christ watching the sea.

#haiku

Tell me all the shades of blue when twilight fades
from pale sky, to slate grey, to ocean-deep
dog howl

#micropoetry #poetry

Hush... rain after
the drought's buzzsawing insect hatred
- the still small voice.

#haiku #micropoetry

first light of morning
decorating the hawthorn
ribbons of wrenflight

migrating geese
pulling the stars back home
autumn equinox

#haiku
#DailyHaikuPrompt

This morning's first frost of autumn
and a fallen horse chestnut out of its shell
peeling back a layer of the exhaustion
of life's sickness and graft, sickness and graft.

#micropoetry

church entrance
the empty vessel
of a beggar

#SenryuSunday #senryu #3lines #micropoetry

I would rather let the wine fall
like rain to the ground
than live a life always cupping my hands.

#micropoetry

:) Thanks!

I love this. I come from a mountainous area (Cumbrian fells) and I am a country mouse - not a great fan of cities in general - but I've regularly found myself trying to explain to people how, in New York, I felt right at home. A city so colossal I forget I'm in a city.

Thank you. I was remembering a little friend I made in May

His novel Blankets is must-read in my opinion anyway!

Galileo Galilei
The Pleiades from 'Sidereus Nuncius' (Starry Messenger), 1610

Drawings of the Moon by Galileo Galilei, 1610

Hope. Small things like
the wood mouse we found in the house
and took to live amongst the bluebells.

#micropoetry

“The truth is that writing is the profound pleasure and being read the superficial.”

—

Virginia Woolf

Page 63 from Tre and Thomas L. Vaultonburg's 2024 book Moonscape Phase I is dedicated to September's #HarvestMoon with #illustration by Tre. The book has haiku pairings for each of the twelve moon phases.

Time to celebrate September's Harvest Moon! I know we've all worked so hard this year so let's take some time to gather the fruits of our labor and give gratitude to the Mother. Hail Corn Moon. Haiku by @tregallery.com and Thomas. #haiku #poetry #illustration #cornmoon #harvestmoon

Rubbing lavender
flowers against the nape of
your neck is my heart

#haiku

Full moon so bright I
can read the label on your
bottle of beer

#haiku

Leaf reflecting moon -
night sky cherry tree mirror
of sky, of tree ...

#haiku

The concept of speech
alien to God; the Book
a graveyard of trees.

#haiku

And outside, dusk.
The sound of a hundred hands
turning page after page
is the cattle in the field
feeding nightly with worn teeth.
And more distant still,
chewing their own cud,
artic HGVs dumbly reciting
the arterial highway's prayer.
And inside-
inside deeper still-
the illiterate cry to god.

Not the stars. I go out to see
the night's midnight blue
and the deep, empty

spaces in between
- the parting of our fingertips -
inhabited by our loss.

One life is only as close to the next
as the stars appear to us;
as if we could measure it

between our finger
and our thumb.

#poetry

You are in a small clearing in a well marked forest path that extends to the east and west.

Aerial satellite photo labelled in bright yellow letters: 1. Rotten Runestone Armory 2. Valley of Mysterious Tractors 3. Strange Bridge

Update #81496 from █████ ███████ ██ (USAP)

1. Rotten Runestone Armory
2. Valley of Mysterious Tractors
3. Strange Bridge

Little magician,
the bairn summons plums and pears
for his grandparents.

#haiku

Moonlight; ochoko -
the bruise of saké paler
than the bright black eye.

#haiku