By Scott Bailey © 2017
Starlings swooping down
As they spy the big city
Wonders await them
Wonders
Haiku
A Spring of Dreams – Trench
Trench
By Scott Bailey © 2013
Dancing with my wife,
last week the telegraph came:
Coughs ring round the trench.
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Three hundred and sixty-five poems in all shapes and sizes, sprung from dreams and emotion. Published day after day for a year. There are haiku, sonnets, katauta, lanturnes and many other forms – including free form. The moods are as varied as the forms and often reflect my mood on the day. There is sadness and grief, joy and love.
If nothing else – these can provide a small moment in everyone’s stressful lives to stop and contemplate the world in a different way.
Seasons
By Scott Bailey © 2017
I’m fresh out of spring
Beyond the long summer days
Winter is coming
The Secret
By Scott Bailey © 2017
The ancient secret
Burns in our hearts and our blood
Obscured by sharp lies
If you really want to know the secret check out Mankind Limited
Stroke of Midnight
The brush of midnight
Sweeps darkness across the sky
Sprinkled with white stars
In response to Scott’s Daily Prompt, Stroke of Midnight
Sharp
By Scott Bailey © 2017
Silk slides on the breeze
Meets the flow of sharpened steel
Leaves a perfect tear
Kissing the Flame
By Scott Bailey © 2017
The meteor dares
To kiss the flames of the sun
Then slingshots away
Coasting
By Scott Bailey © 2017
This car is coasting
Familiar road ahead
Time to go off-road
Space
By Scott Bailey © 2016
Feel the space around
Everywhere that I can see
Breathe, release and live
Discover
By Scott Bailey © 2016
Discovered knowledge
Treasured sweeter than any
Teacher could serve up
Enthusiasm
By Scott Bailey © 2016
Dead enthusiasm
Passion for mundane labours
Seems to be required
Another Anthem
By Scott Bailey © 2016
Ring the bells of life
Every heartbeat tolling on
So jingle them well
Fishing
By Scott Bailey © 2016
Kingfisher fishing
Silver treasure in the dark
Ice seals the lake shut
Flee
By Scott Bailey © 2016
The cold swallows flee
Riding currents to the south
Rivers take their time
Missing
By Scott Bailey © 2016
Never ending beach
The crashing waves repeating
Permanence missing
Swift
By Scott Bailey © 2016
Swifts swoop and dazzle
Aerobatics in the sky
Still, we watch in awe
Still
By Scott Bailey © 2016
Stood before a wall
Dreaming of the road beyond
Still before a wall
Vanish
By Scott Bailey © 2016
You must remember
When waking from reveries
All your dreams vanish
Pets
By Scott Bailey © 2016
Let’s play with our pets
Keep them happy and content
While we milk them dry
Cold Morning
By Scott Bailey © 2016
Golden sunlight fills
The air where the songbirds spill
Their song while frost kills
Luck
By Scott Bailey © 2016
No rhyme or reason
Bad luck keeps on reigning down
Good luck’s hard to find
Northern Wonder
By Scott Bailey © 2017
The sun reaches out
And excites the northern sky
A watcher’s pleasure
Holiday
By Scott Bailey © 2017
Resting on the coast
The soothing sounds of the sea
Fill this empty shell
Hope
By Scott Bailey © 2017
Hope holds back the tide
Stays the shifting golden sand
Thin mist arises
Painted Ladies
By Scott Bailey © 2017
The painted ladies
Thousands fly from Africa
To be lunch for birds
Worms
By Scott Bailey © 2017
Spring showers cascade
The blackbird enjoys the hour
Worms join the party
Snowflakes
By Scott Bailey © 2017
The snowflake’s fate is
To melt, to make great rivers
Thus quenching the flames
Deep Green
By Scott Bailey © 2017
I stand on the shore
Unsure. Intimidated
By the great green deep
Also inspired by an old and longer poem -> here
Green Shoots
By Scott Bailey © 2017
In the red embers
The wake of the forest fire
Fresh green shoots arise
Shining Deep
By Scott Bailey © 2017
Darkness rules the deep
Bio-luminescence shines
Nature wins the day
Supernovae
By Scott Bailey © 2017
A distant star blooms
Shining in the ancient night
Showers of starlight
Daisies
By Scott Bailey © 2017
The warm sun colours
The world like dancing daisies
Spread between the graves
Wolf in Snow
By Scott Bailey © 2015
Hard the mud did cake
Matted fur, red blood flowing
On snow-covered wolf
Owl
By Scott Bailey © 2021
The screech of an owl
Clouds like scratches on the moon
Mouse darts warily
For “Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 369 SCRATCH and Screech.”
Droplet
By Scott Bailey © 2017
Droplet spins midair
Shimmering graceful free fall
Dashed against grey stone
A Spring of Dreams – Nation
By Scott Bailey © 2013
Kerching! Kerchang! Pow!
Our economy picks up!
Soul still desolate.
Three hundred and sixty-five poems in all shapes and sizes, sprung from dreams and emotion. Published day after day for a year. There are haiku, sonnets, katauta, lanturnes and many other forms – including free form. The moods are as varied as the forms and often reflect my mood on the day. There is sadness and grief, joy and love.
If nothing else – these can provide a small moment in everyone’s stressful lives to stop and contemplate the world in a different way.
A Spring of Dreams – Sparks
A Spring of Dreams – Butterfly
The Hunter
By Scott Bailey © 2016
I am the hunter
Dance with me beneath the moon
Shafts of silver light
Lark
By Scott Bailey © 2016
Lark perched by a lake
Reflected in dark water
A train rushes by
Clouds
By Scott Bailey © 2016
Sunlight streams through clouds
Warm, cascading waterfalls
Dispelled by a breeze
A Spring of Dreams – Lantern
Lantern
By Scott Bailey © 2013
Old light from the past
Is still illumination
Wisdom echoes far
A Spring of Dreams – Cross
Senryu: Cross
By Scott Bailey © 2013
Fleeing from killers
The child runs desperately
To fill out a form
Magic
By Scott Bailey © 2016
The blood of stars
Drives the magic of our dreams
Bound in dragon tears
Dancing Waves
By Scott Bailey © 2018
Celebratory
The warming rays of the sun
Making the waves dance
#haiku
Dare
By Scott Bailey © 2016
I don’t dare to dream
Reality is too harsh
To just brush aside
On the Edge
By Scott Bailey © 2015
Stand tall on the board
A breeze teases the skin; dive
Slapped by water cold
Iris
By Scott Bailey
The dark wide iris
Sparkling bright now, mists over
As it watches time
Hole
By Scott Bailey © 2015
A hole in the ground
Still black water reflecting
Meteors above
The Universe
By Scott Bailey © 2015
Special, general
Einstein’s relativity
Beauty and balance
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