Haiku tends to focus on our relationship with the natural world, so it features the seasons, weather, the night sky, animals and plants....

After a short break I am back to writing a haiku daily (well almost daily). I am always writing and putting together submissions and so...

Memory is a curious thing isn't it? We think that our memories are real, that they are honest records of past happenings, events and...

Aberffraw Falling off the beachside rock I clutched a tussock of sea whitened grass. Magically, I ascended in a graceful parabola...

Being a writer is a solitary affair, and sometimes it can be hard, especially when we send out our precious works into the world and they...

This is a photo of Simon's very small container pond. Can you spot what is hiding in amongst the plant life? As I am a haiku poet this...

Ok, I don't wish to sing my own praises. It is a nice feeling though when your words connect with someone else, when they affect them and...

In these troubled times, where the flames of war seem to be spreading I think of the stories that my Grandparents told me. They lived...

THE HUNDRETH HUN A black and white photo in my father’s wartime album Written above, in decorative script, the title- ‘Celebrating the...

It may sound simple to write haiku, I mean they are just 17 syllables at best, but truthfully writing good haiku is harder than it looks....

Hi, as a happy haikuist (is there such a word I wonder?) I like to write a haiku every day. Now, they are not all masterpieces or even...

Sometimes as a poet you want to write something light, humorous and silly. This may go against the grain of what some people assume...

This year seems to have raced by at a rate of knots. In a couple of days it will be the Easter holidays. When I look out, the garden is a...

Ok, so I try to write regularly about haiku. My aim is to do this every day, but as you can see I don't always succeed! Why do I wish to...

Ok, so mine were not that long ago, but its all relative. Here is a poem that I wrote inspired by my school days. This has been recently...

It's the first of March today, hence the title. Why do we say 'white rabbits! white rabbits! white rabbits!' on this day? If anyone knows...

Last year we had a family of Magpies nesting in our Ash tree, right at the bottom of our garden. It was a source of of joy and amusement...

Ok, so perhaps not, as it is late February. This winter (in the UK) has been exceptionally wet. Wet, wet, wet. It seems that there hasn't...

Being a northern soul I have written a few poems about the history, landscape and culture of Yorkshire. Here is a selection for you,...

Where does that phrase come from about shy, retiring wallflowers? I have been growing wallflowers in my garden for a couple of years now...