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| A Spot on the Stream |
| Claude Monet- Monochrome (High Tide at Etretat 1868; The Magpie 1869) |
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To Millais, 1851, threatened for trespassing
Here; where vivid underwater weed forms huge spearheads pointing
downstream, as the earth-brown flow around them laps over stones, above
the place lit in brief spells through leaves, the place where a touch of white
willow sways on the current. On the far bank purple loosestrife loops below
twigs. A trunk lies close beside. On the near bank nettles.
You could have painted her here.
hands cupped
above the surface-
fleeting demoiselle
Diana Webb
(first published on Contemporary Haibun Online)
Water lilies wait under the weeping willows. Years before...
He labours through taste and sting of salt on November gales, the roar and
splash, to anchor an instant...
beyond whisked waves
peak of one dark rock-
man holds his hat down
He sets up his easel in the middle of a white winterscape, becomes part of
it. Icicles form on his beard as the moment freezes...
'one for sorrow'
perched on the gate-
shadows on snow
Diana Webb
(first published in Contemporary Haibun Online)
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behind the beach hut my everlasting world of pebbles |
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clear tang of a newly sharpened pencil - summer birdsong |
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your grey dressing gown let fall across the chair, its folds and crumples |
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all along the hedgerow sunset caught in the 'old man's beard' |
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dust on his paws, he slips from behind the shelves, the library cat |
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almost breaking the heron's ring of stillness we make a detour |
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reception marquee - uninvited guests, daddy-long-legs |
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starry night in the darkened garden tips of snowdrops |
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Diana Webb Published in 'Blithe Spirit', the quarterly journal of the British Haiku Society |
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Oxfam window - old dolls stare out through the rain |
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sun breaking through mist - a man shares a garden bench with a pumpkin |
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Diana Webb Published in the haiku magazine 'Presence' |
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Waiting for a chow mein-
across the road
the last horse chestnut leaves
flap bedraggled,
a few buds gleam...
Always it seems I'm waiting-
opposite
under the horse-chestnut,
a bollard in the bluebells...
'Chinese' coming soon-
leaves turning,
odd ones blown free
flutter down the breeze...
Chow Mein-
in the gutter
uncollected conkers
Diana Webb
(first published in Blithe Spirit)