all linen

and little nose

flying dreams

Images from #remixvic

lamplit breath

floats along the shore

ghost stories

This haiku by 18th century poet Buson is possibly my favourite of the Japanese masters.  It captures the endless possibilities of the public domain that awaits every one of us just 'beyond the gate'.  This image was taken just beyond my gate in Sydney this autumn morning.

a woman yawns

behind a beautiful man

morning commute

an unlit taper

echoes then rolls

stained glass

shadows

gesticulating wildly

they talk

of the simple life

Sydney is considering running light rail down George Street.  Here's what it could look like.

And its current state...

a train's

winter shadow - always

that one mistake

Hey folk.  As some of you know, I'm back at university studying urban design (the perfect course for any flaneur out there).  So - just for this year - I've swapped photographing little things like bees for learning how to draw cities with actual, ink-filled pens.


Somehow, while I've been away, this blog has become far more popular than I could ever have imagined.  So to say thanks for visiting and following Australian Haiku, here's one of my favourite bee photos from an earlier post.                               Cheers, Dalloway

an elephant

holds back the butterflies

strong coffee

frolicking

through dragonflies

first autumn wind

With thanks to Barb Henry for her background texture.

old jetty

the smallest feather falling

through my blouse

Ambrosia, Issue 3, Spring 2009

one last cloud

surrenders her colour

to twilight

after work

the lotus flowers

already gone

beyond

the office shadows

a Ginsberg Howl

a boy strays

into the scrub

banksia men

Banksia men are the frightening villains of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie, a popular series of childrens books by Australian author May Gibbs, first published in 1918.

hot wind

a grasshopper

on mint