English haiku – Autumn/Vinter 2024

BIRK ANDERSSON

Valentine’s day
returning to the bridge
with a bolt cutter

white blanket
mother tucked in
at the graveyard

football match
my daughter kicks
in the stomach

new girlfriend
introducing her to
our song

fishing trip
cooking up
stories

graffiti wall
a tag
from a dog

bedtime                                                              
letting in
the reading lamp


ULLA CONRAD

CONCERT WITH NOOR, 
Brøndby Vandtårn

From the nordic plains
in concert the cattle call
is heard from afar

churches abandoned
walls murial painted songs
resonate with souls

in tower circles
sitting surrounded by
bluewinged angels

a field of flowers
opens golden in full song
waves in the wind

hawthorn bush joins in
Linden tree scents do too in
the song of it all –


ENGLAND 2024
– Isle of Wight & Brighton

On vaccation –
reading the metaphysic
poets is easier

Tombs sticking out
of the church wall –
death tangible

Celtic stone cross –
four arms four seasons and in
the center BEING

Church north door closed –
flow of layline energy
obstructed

Prayer requests –
the last about a broken
foot like mine

Holy well closed –
calcified holiness looks
for other exits

Tour de tearoom –
scone and clotted cream heaven
their makers´ smile

Seagulls in Brighton
Golden Garden Retriever
and above tea flows –
in endless streams of happiness
of meeting you in real life –


OLE BUNDGAARD

The lackluster light
the sun a misty marble
the mackerel sky gleams
(November 1st)


BO LILLE

the ice blue silence
floating above the sea
and into my soul

Slime steps in zigzag
tell me: where has the snail gone
and is it drunk?

this piece of bird’s shit
street art on a high level
by unknown artist

the black bird male
sings his way into my heart
while shitting on my steak

MY EPITAPH

here lies a man
with poetry’s blue flower
between his lips


BJARNE KIM PEDERSEN

CRANES 24 AND 12
Cranes in the sky
a small flock above us
perhaps they have read

EXIT
the cranes fly
let the president drift
far away from the country

TANKA

‘RATS OF THE SKY’
the winter pigeons
are here from the north, the hunter
gets pigeon breasts.
Taras cares for balcony pigeons
while drones strike Kyiv.