PRAYER FLAGS ALONG THE PASS
The first three haiku/senryu have been written in remembrance of those killed by the devastating earthquake of 25th April 2015 in Nepal. The last two poems are inspired by a friend’s photographs from a trek around the Annapurna circuit in the Himalaya.
many funeral pyres
ashes
quickly swept away
for the dying
rippling prayer flags
along an empty pass
women weep
by a fallen tower
the aftershock
no-one around
a pair of blue shoes
on monastery steps
trekkers retreat
wandering yaks
have the right of way
Bio:
Dr
Tim Gardiner is an ecologist and poet. His haiku have been published in
literary magazines including A Hundred Gourds, Blithe Spirit, Frogpond
and Presence and the daily Japanese newspaper, Asahi Shimbun. His first
collection of poetry 'Wilderness' is to be published by Brambleby
Books. He has published many papers on natural history and several
books including one about glow-worms.
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