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A Haiku Anthology - Theme Summertime

wildflower meadow
as tall as a muntjac
cuckoo cuckooing
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farmers haymaking
grasshoppers stridulating
don't touch a stinkbug
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wood admiral glides
honeysuckle its host plant
humid the hot nights
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warm is the river
fish rising leaping for flies
life seeking cool shade
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inverted swimmers
water boatmen taking in air
cygnets follow pen
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as fall approaches
swifts are well on their way
second brood blackbirds
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hungry mosquitoes
human siestas a nap
insect repellent
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sunbathing insects
flowerflies hovering free
mowers thrashing lawns
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farmers cutting hay
a smell not forgotten
wildlife be afraid
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sunbathers warning
cream up or suffer sunburn
worse melanoma
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swifts immature
three years on the wing
unbelievable
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sand martins nesting
adorning soft sandy clifts
freshwater skimmers
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dragonflies masters
watch them fly backwards a thrill
kingfishers posing
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super hot weather
droughts not good for wildlife
reprieved... thunderstorms
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climate warming
both poles can't take the heat
humans all sweating
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a countryside walk
on a warm sunlit day
foxes sunbathing

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Tom Cunningham

Date: 5/11/2018 9:01:00 AM

Brilliant how you do these Mick, why do one when you can do a string. I've been inspired by you and done two, polar anthology and dustbowl one. Tom. PS, wrote a poem in your honour.

Mick Talbot
Date: 5/11/2018 9:13:00 AM

Honour and humble I am Tom, and pleased to boot, thanks again, my virtual friend. Yeah, I read your dustbowl anthology, will check the polar one out soon. Had to take time out from judging to respond to your piece on, 'Follow the rules', (truly brilliant too), couldn't let that one go uncommented. ;-) Will catch up with you and all, thanks again. MIck

Heidi Sands

Date: 5/11/2018 8:30:00 AM

Amazing! I fully enjoyed reading this. Very well written straight through :)

Mick Talbot
Date: 5/11/2018 9:15:00 AM

Thank you, Heidi, appreciated! Mick