no way

Twilight, thicket, both hamper progress;
way ahead unclear, uncleared.

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tangle

tangle of branches
choking view of distant hills
black twisted fingers

stillness

silent wethers graze
sullen stillness swathes waters
westering sun sinks

disbelief

Summer memories
of simmering heat and sea?
Winter disbelief

Nine word story and senryu rolled into one (image: Broad Haven South, Pembrokeshire)

runnels

raindrops on windscreen
dribbling down wiper runnels
draining to the sea

fall

tree shivering breeze
leaves cling resolutely but
they will fall, and freeze

lilies

blue sky peeping through
clouds of sleeping lily pads
on limpid surface

geese

green and blue, grey and brown
geese a-dreaming on the ground
by the river flowing down
green and blue, grey and brown

trunks

like elephant legs
slow striding across landscapes
but going nowhere

unseen

grey slates, grassy graves
whitewashed chapel walls
green unseen by dead

eye

sea-washed stone in cleft
Nature’s art a false fossil
Leviathan’s eye

fun

After the rain may come sun
After the pain perhaps some fun

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