seated the sunshine flecked, with salt
Mangroves
Category: Haiku
little three line poems inspired by nature, traditionally in a 5-7-5 syllabic structure
Last Night’s Rain
tiny bubblets lodge in a spider's trap last night's rain © 2019 Melinda J. Irvine An evening downpour in the Philippine tropics is followed by intense morning sun, giving life to every rivulet and bubble before they transform back to cloud.
Rearranging the shadows
inside shadows a young fish passes beyond the mangroves
On the low tide
young palm frond turned, green to burned gold on the low tide © 2019 Melinda J. Irvine
Easter Moon
flying late my Easter moon alighting Dubai
Putting out fires
wet skies falling over burnt bits of land My Uncle Richard emailed me his latest watercolour a few days ago -- inspired by the "water, wet skies and bits of land" (he told me) of the NSW New England. Yet all…
Leaves by the Riverbank
barbed blade and broken midrib, cobweb netted vein cover river sand in your story
Above the kitchen
wind strikes hollow bamboo sticks against long since seashells
Cloudy
rock pool shook by the north shrilled wind cloudy
Along the Rural Road
neat rows of pointed pines along the rural road one wild daisy
The Window Sill
on the window sill bottles sitting in echoes memories -- not dust
Astern
more than 10,000 low and muddy tides she stands astern. still
Drooping She-oak
drooping limbs flailing she-died -- not quickly
Scattered Seaweed
shreds of seaweed break -- the beach © 2018 Melinda J. Irvine The last shreds of seaweed break up kilometres and kilometres of empty low tide beach. Broken from the bottom they were dumped on the sand, soon they will…
White Water Bird
river currents creasing her — white winged reflections © 2018 Melinda J. Irvine
Sunbathing
basking her bottom head hiding - rear to the sun shining. black lizard © 2018 Melinda J. Irvine
Gum Blossoms
tangled river walkway gum blossom cepheids
Broken Leaves
sunset falls to earth broken leaves reply © 2018 Melinda J. Irvine
Above the Ocean
cape. fronded textures
Along the Kennedy Track
mangrove roots swathe rock to sea old coast walkway © 2018 Melinda J. Irvine
Springtime in the Blue Mountains
Spring's contenders rhododendrons waratahs
Shadows On the Fence
spring fell between the cracks shadows on the fence © 2018 Melinda J. Irvine
Haiku for the Sun
six sodden rain weeks greyed skies -- gloomier parents then you remembered
Palm Roots and Blooms
old concrete mossed green tiny white flowers
Appearance and Reality
seeing senses skewed © 2018 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Post: Skewed I'm part of Post A Day 2018 Location: Guimaras Island, Iloilo (Philipppines) PS: I found Bertrand Russell's 'The Problems of Philosophy' for 85 pesos buried in a bookstore yesterday,…
Of the Forest
one piece of the forest fallen, at my feet © 2018 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Post: Forest I'm part of Post A Day 2018 Location: Guimaras, Iloilo (Philipppines)
Old World Tropics
bare feet uncover a new island old world pandanus © 2018 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Post: Observe I'm part of Post A Day 2018 Location:Guimaras Island, Iloilo (Philipppines)
Under a New Window
there's a place I sit where only tree tips are seen and the new window © 2018 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Post: Vague I'm part of Post A Day 2018 Location: La Paz, Iloilo City (Philipppines) My friend Jane Dudley…
Reforestation
from the top of the island where the trees were once bamboo nursery © 2018 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Post: Encrusted I'm part of Post A Day 2018 Location: Calagnaan Island, Carles (Philipppines) Note: A little poem about a new bamboo forest…
Three Sodden Weeks
(passing) green stretched rice fields the tiny hut twinned rainbow of T-shirts © 2018 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Post: Horizon I'm part of Post A Day 2018 Location: San Dionisio, Iloilo (Philipppines) Riding the bus through the first full day of…
She rises, she falls
long lines of palm frond wind filled, each crease each pore delineates the gust © 2018 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Post: Undulate I'm part of Post A Day 2018 Location: Guimaras Island, Iloilo (Philipppines)
Afternoon Elegance
Phoebus Stretched his hands Unto each tiny stem and floret © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Prompt: Elegance Weekly Photo Challenge: Ascend I'm part of Post A Day 2017 Location: Batad, Iloilo (Philipppines)
Flowers of the Tropics
red petals thick and scrunch no rain past their doorway #poetry #haiku #poem
Spider
beneath a noisy party carefree games and un-shoed feet a spider waits #poetry #haiku #poem
It’s Raining
red and purple pieces of city lights and lumes inside a street puddle © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Prompt: Surreal I'm part of Post A Day 2017 Location: Iloilo City (Philippines)
Someone Before Me
on a lonely shore someone had stood before me webbed footprints in sand © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Prompt: Exceptional I'm part of Post A Day 2017 Location: Nambucca Heads (Australia)
Beach Pedestrian
washed beyond her kin brown, no longer wet seaweed beach pedestrian © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine Weekly Photo Challenge: Pedestrian I'm part of Post A Day 2017 Location: Nambucca Heads (Australia)
Spring Rhododendrons
bright pinks, red-purples pamper the twisting ivy spring rhododendrons © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine Weekly Photo Challenge: Windows Daily Prompt: Pamper I'm part of Post A Day 2017 Location: Blachheath (Australia)
The Colour of Water
children’s voices loop just over the wet bracken rushing mountain stream © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine This is my response to the Blogging University course Writing: Intro to Poetry (Day 1 Water) I'm part of Post A Day 2017 Location:…
Fallen Leaf
shunning the sun's sting fallen leaf turns gently brown hidden mountain stream © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Prompt: Sting and Leaf I'm part of Post A Day 2017
Wet
open to the wind her loud (faster) rushed and wild catch a single drop © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Prompt: Solitary and Unfurl I'm part of Post A Day 2017
The Last of the Wattle
below eucalypts butcherbird plucks out a hymn bush cemetery the wattle lingered late that August year you left winter’s long goodnight © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Post: Pluck I'm part of Post A Day 2017
Aloft
little white sail inside a green sea aloft © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Post: Sail I'm part of Post A Day 2017
Afternoon Walk
sprinkled along the trail red flowers © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Post: Blanket I'm part of Post A Day 2017 SaveSave SaveSave
Papaya
papaya sweet-scented flower the whole night © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Post: Perfume I'm part of Post A Day 2017
Celadon
grey, green celadon forest of tiny leaf fronds taper pink entrails © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Post: Taper I'm part of Post A Day 2017
The Red Sea
blood moon the tides divided island to island © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Post: Control I'm part of Post A Day 2017
Reaching
mud garden footprint old bottles stem a bright rose gentleness reaching © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Post: Tender I'm part of Post A Day 2017
Under the Moon
rainbow reaching (a tiny distant moon) both sides rainbow reaches World Environment Day both sides © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Post: Distant I'm part of Post A Day 2017 World Environment Day #WithNature
Brassy
upright all the day sun-burned pink and pale, orange hibiscus flower © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Post: Brassy I'm part of Post A Day 2017
Storm
storm's precipice monsoon strikes the mountain evanescent © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine This poem was published in 50 Haikus (Volume 1, Issue 11) a literary journal featuring only Haiku poetry in open form. Daily Post: Precipice Weekly Photo Challenge:Evanescent I'm part…
Banana Blossom
ripened bract unfolds her music, line and textures dance inflorescence © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Prompt: Impression
Collaboration
layers of rain, greened spent leaves over damp soil (earth's) collaboration © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Post: Collaboration I'm part of Post A Day 2017
After Dark
night sounds dogs, Dogs, DOGS fiesta’s steady THUMP Thump thump © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine
Beside the Fancy Shopping Mall
twisting bamboo maze rickety walkway stumbles sodden, someone's house © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Prompt: Maze
Exposed
children rock mid-summer playtime © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Post: Exposed
The Old Apprentice
an old apprentice gathered now experience waning the noon tide © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Post: Apprentice
Fire! Fire!
silver cooling dawn distant shapes men, haul anchor at once, all away tropical island though winter does not pass here poverty is cold closing light showers covered in February rains disappear fire siren wailing bells thick fear rise rise look…
April Tides
February blew long low tide on the concrete constructed April © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine
However bird songs are heard
like bold ink scratchings haiku ancestors, unknown bird songs are yet heard Audax scratchings quasi atramento Haiku et maiorum suorum ignotum carmina sunt avem tamen audisti Scratchings as bold ink Haiku Poetry and those of their own ancestors are pardoned…
Morning Shadows
morning found herself beyond iron grating, fenced among the shadows © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine
Morning Begins
blue morning begins looking for tiny bird sounds windless palm fronds sway © 2017 Melinda J. Irvine
February Winds
mountains cannot hear singing children scattered south February winds © 2017 Melinda Irvine
Heard
through the sounds of dogs banana leaves sway roof tips men haul up fish nets © 2017 Melinda Irvine Daily Prompt: Heard
A Recognised Craft
long since a palm tree weaved tight, neatly stitched by hands above now below © 2017 Melinda Irvine Daily Prompt: Craft and Recognize
Overwhelmed
tiny bamboo barque thick winds squall her man and net islands vanish aft © 2017 Melinda Irvine Daily Prompt: Overwhelming
In the Garden
Gently leaf sway soft to the morning in your Grace © 2017 Melinda Irvine Weekly Photo Challenge: Graceful
Ocean Mosaic
Ocean's bright lighting each swell and surge captured, art. Blue and exquisite. © 2017 Melinda Irvine Daily Prompt: Exquisite
Windy Headland
Swaying small tree cling in the place where sea meets sky: everything shown. © 2017 Melinda Irvine Daily Prompt: Cling
Looking to the North
below the dune-lands is the last day of the year looking to the north © 2016 Melinda Irvine Daily Prompt: Hopeful
Alone at the Edge
an old creek tidal separated from her kin, she hears their songs still © 2016 Melinda Irvine Daily Prompt: Mope
Renewal
as a tree grows old nature finds her own sublime ornamentation © 2016 Melinda J. Irvine Daily Prompt: Renewal
The Last of the Day
her sun's loud presence harried by the horizon. the last of the day © 2016 Melinda Irvine Daily Post: Pillage
Things That Relax
Bare feet wanderings. Wet earth. Leafy ground garden. Last rain's gentle drops. © Melinda Irvine Weekly Photo Challenge: Relax
Shade and Shadows
Angophoras shed splintered bark in neighbourless shade and leafed shadows © 2016 Melinda Irvine A haiku poem written by Melinda Irvine.
Over the Corn
freshened sun shimmers the not-quite harvest season gold and greens alight © 2016 Melinda Irvine
Paperbark Wetlands
barefoot forest steps find sun-stained river grasses windless and silent © 2016 Melinda Irvine Paperbark Wetlands is featured in my book of multimedia poetry Paperbark Wetlands: 10 Little Multimedia Poems Lyricing the Australian Landscape. Get it free now on iBooks…
Home For Winter
the sun is warming my tropical island feet back home for winter © 2016 Melinda Irvine
Where I Once Stood
where i once stood still a memory (bright shells) held in my little hand © 2016 Mel Irvine
Morning and Mist
early driving sun behind wet mist and dew filled cobwebs. rough bush stop. © 2015 Melinda Irvine
Who lies beneath you?
bush cemetery who lies beneath your lichen trees and unmarked cross? © 2015 Melinda Irvine
Ancient Volcano
Aboriginal Undara (a long way). Rain forest beneath us. © 2015 Melinda Irvine
Girringun Grasslands
rain greened grassland slopes shield once esteemed trees’ tiny purple companions © 2015 Melinda Irvine