nature – Solus One

Haiku #395

Posted on April 9, 2018 by Solus One

Nature has straight lines
But it’s all wiggly thought I…
Ever heard of light?

green shoots of black mould

nature wants back my house as

playground for insects

Time to break the mould
Round the leaf and pour the hole
in the natural world

pebble, coconut

white and green and hairy as

english garden mist

Evil bottom breath

From a mangy lion scares

Adults and children

On the rocky plate

Oh I can see Vancouver

In all it’s glory

1+1 is 2

and that’s a hundred haiku

more than you and trees

Stuck on Bat-Mans belt

Jungle cats prowling outside

Under the sparse moonlight

Nature influenced. Created in Paint.

How can I get back in one day all that I have experienced in nature?

A whistlestop tour of landmarks and waysides in all weathers perhaps?

Or just sitting back against a tree chewing a piece of grass while humming a tune gently?

Letting the ants crawl over my trouser legs and the roots of the tree disappearing into cracks and crevices too small for me to look inside.

And lay there under the midday sun while the birds coo and the wind rustles the branches on high.

As a dampness insinuates into my behind there is a gentle remind that us humans no longer live outdoors long having conquered trees for floorboards.

But as I stand up and brush off the dirt and look up at the tree I am reminded of the might that puts the greatness into the great outdoors.