spring shower
I sink into
my Danaë
white cream flowers
of black elderberry
impostor syndrome
the closer
the quieter
bluebells
Golden Haiku Poetry Competition 2024, second place
winner
Ernest Wit - My haiku in English, published and unpublished.
spring shower
I sink into
my Danaë
white cream flowers
of black elderberry
impostor syndrome
the closer
the quieter
bluebells
Golden Haiku Poetry Competition 2024, second place
winner
departure
the ruts in a dirt road
frozen hard
first published in Wales Haiku Journal, winter 2023/24
so light, so heavy
a butterfly settles
on the granite slab
first published in Presence, March 2024
molto mesto
the flutist takes
a deep breath
first published in The Heron’s Nest, March 2024
winter graveyard
wrapped in a white scarf
a woman in black
first published in Przekrój, winter 2023
dying
the old dog learns
a new trick
first published in Przekrój, winter 2023
metamorphoses
of our love
rose petal jam
first published in Przekrój, winter 2023
morning fog
the clatter of horses’ hooves
on cobblestones
first published in Wales Haiku Journal, Autumn 2023
stripping us
of illusions
autumn wind
first published in Presence, November 2023
a stray dog
follows me for a while
winter dusk
autumn solitude
a salmon-belly sunset
on the cold river
first published in Autumn Moon Haiku Journal, November
2023
the voice
of the unsayable
wind in yellow reeds
first published in Autumn Moon Haiku Journal, November
2023
dropping in
at the old hut
summer rain
first published in Cattails, October 2023
I take you
for granted
summer grass
first published in Modern Haiku, autumn 2023
the swans are so white
as if they only ate
water lilies
first published in Chrysanthemum, October 2023
an old windmill
abandoned in a field
chill autumn wind
first published in Cattails, October 2023
as if he wanted
to catch the setting sun
an old fisherman
first published in Wales Haiku Journal, summer 2023
heavily powdered worm moon
in the sea of cornflowers hippocampus
over-caffeinated sunset the Zeppelin cloud on fire
first publish in Bones, October 2023