Walking Commentary
Thoughts and cycling from Manchester to Rome in 2023
Sometimes an adverb is enough, as illustrated by poet Diarmuid Fitzgerald:
in the marshes
without my map –
joyously lost
Thames Way: haiku and tanka (Alba, 2015, page 27)
9 March 2020 – 16:28 GMT – 10°C Light Rain – Co. Dublin, Ireland
the sound of the bat
flying in the thicket
is dark
A haiku I really like by Masaoka Shiki who in a short TB-curtailed life is credited with rescuing the poetry form of haiku. He urged poets to seek inspiration from the beauty of nature. He advised that we ‘encounter beautiful scenes and copy them realistically.’
In the bright room where I like to read, not just poetry, the rain is gently tapping the window glass.
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