Over the Length

ninety minutes
until we reach her funeral
a low grey cloud
travels slowly over the length
of this mountain range

Kernels, Spring 2013

Mindful Writing Challenge: Day 16

the second person

in the last few days

to congratulate me

on surviving cancer

but I don't see it

as an achievement

it's just the journey

that I had to go on

Haiku Hawk

Painting by Jenny Longstaff

This painting by Jenny Longstaff was inspired by my haiku below, and done for the When North meet South exhibition, now on at Bellamy's Gallery, Dunedin.

 misty moon

above the mountain range

hawk's cry

Organiser Ruth Arnison brought together haiku poets from the North Island and artists of all kinds from the South Island to create this unique fundraising event. A percentage of the proceeds of all sales goes to Ruth's amazing Poems in the Waiting Room project.