Crafty Green Poet

Patient Property  is a collection of haiku and tanka about Kirsten Cliff Elliot’s journey through leukaemia. These poems cover all aspects o...

watching the raindrops - kitten raises her paw to the windowpane  ** originally published in Blithe Spirit , the journal of the British Haik...

After a mild winter, everyone predicted an early, warming spring but instead, chill mists kept back the flowers and buds so now in May, cela...

  Polar Corona  by Caroline Gill, a winner of the Hedgehong Poetry Prize , is a crown (corona) of seven interlinked sonnets about Antarctic ...

overcast skies - the meteor shower unseen **  I first posted this haiku a few years ago, but am reposting it, as last night, we had hope...

We spent much of last week in Dumfries and Galloway in the south-west of Scotland. We've visited this area many times, but there are sti...

As if from nowhere an endless stream of large black ants invaded our home. .  We had become fond of their smaller cousins that seemed to ...

  autumn sunshine - the robin's song changes key    previously published on Haiku Seeds.  

  Yesterday I had the great good fortune to be able to attend Simon Armitage 's event at the Edinburgh International Book Festival . The...

newly fledged blackbirds in the garden — shadow of a cat ** originally published on Haiku Girl Summer .   

skylarksong— blue butterflies flutter in heat hazed fields   originally published in Haiku Girl Summer .   ** May is the perfect time to tak...

dandelion clocks — already too late for the bees ** originally published on Haiku Girl Summer .   ** I published a post today on my Substack...

Do you see the swifts are here again? They swoop so low and soar so high I think there may be more than ten - do you see the swifts are here...

song thrushes sing after the downpour — petrichor ** originally published on Haiku Girl Summer .   Haiku Girl Summer will re-open for submi...

warming seas— coral reefs weep with algae originally published in cattails .   ** read updates on the state of Australia's Great Barrier...

waiting for peace - a storm of petals in the garden ** originally published on Shadow Pond Journal here .

robins sing - scarlet elf caps in the moss  February is National Haiku Writing Month (NaHaiWriMo). I've been writing a haiku every day ...

These days discussions of coal centre, rightly, on its negative effects, the pollution and its contribution to climate change. However, coal...

  Jean Taylor is an Edinburgh based poet, who comes along to one of the writing groups I facilitate. She's very modest about her talents...

Those specks we call stars are the fire embers of spirits leaving bodies. The bridges of the city shak...