sand

Moonrise
When the sand crabs
Can be seen.

plum

Bashful moon!
Wearing a plum colored cloud
The Twilight ball.

dance

On freshly cut grass
A kookaburra
Dinner and dance.

bed

Poor old magpie
Under which bed of leaves
Will she die?

cut

This, the tree 
Where Kookaburras sing
Will be cut today.

smile

In a living room,
Finding the full moon 
In a woman's smile.

tree

Perfectionist crow,
Ceaseless fidget in the tree.
-Thats me- I think.

red

Forlorn,
By the road's edge,
A woman's red shoe.

green

Gifted by en lover

A bitter green tea

For nights alone.

drip

From kitchen faucet,
An uneven drip.
The beating heart!

folding

Small umbrellas.
Blue flowers folding
Into evening rain.

night

A barking frog,
An elusive moon,
The wet night.

palace

Night after night

A spider

Re-building palaces.

anguish

Filled with anguish,
The mouse problem 
Without a cat

white

After love affair,
Alone at last, white egret
Returns to his field.

frogs!

Watch out for tree frogs!
I've posted on screen doors
Inside my house.

field

A new agenda
Each page, a field
For planting haiku.

hot

Into hot oven
A painted coffin
Soft peeling paint...

soap

Two pretty girls,
Scent of soap
Downwind.

wet

After the rains

The sea, too, 

All wet.

secret

Evening ants...
Secret mountain of joy;
The honey jar.

Mickey!

l'air de rien #115 (Paris, Gare de Lyon) from cloudsandsea on Vimeo.

else

At the stroke of twelve
Somewhere else,
Confetti flies.

waves

l'air de rien #114 (Hugo Wolf) from cloudsandsea on Vimeo.

merry christmas (belated)

December from 328 Stories on Vimeo.

empty

                       drawn by Louise aged 10


The long silence
Of an angry friend,
The quickly beating heart.

sheets

In bed
Slipping into mushroom sheets,
The rainy season!

sand

Shoveling driveway
At low tide.
The evening sand crab.

pale

The flooded fields,
Let me swim with you
Lonely Brahman. 

bitter

After christmas dinner 
Gift of plastic santa, 
Bitter chocolate.

flight

Hiding from rain
A moth takes time
Out.

beach

Taken from the beach
The sea shell 
Never looks as good.

dim

Over the horizon
A dim lightbulb hanging.
Lunar eclipse!

dust

A small portion 
Of moondust
For dinner.

suit

Bathing in moonbeams. 
Wearing a silver suit 
For midnight swim.

paris by boat at night

l'air de rien #105 (Paris by night on the seine) from cloudsandsea on Vimeo.

Under

Under the table
The bachelor disappears
Over holidays

imagine

The morning crows 
Cannot imagine
The morning fish.

glued

Glued to the road,
Very last pirouette,
The white butterfly.

Taulignan

l'air de rien #77 from cloudsandsea on Vimeo.

leaves

Morning thunderstorm
Making home in the spider webs;
Eucalyptus leaves.

fog

The lone bird
Yelling into 
Thick fog

hurt

No bandage 
For the alcoholic
Hurt by the truth.

white

Ocean at dusk
Eating up my white legs.
Who spoke of sharks?

alone

A plateful of stars,
My evening dinner
Alone with crickets.

orange

Year after year,
The young orange tree
Which refuses to grow.

beads

Of the heavy air
Beads of sweat
Which do not die

l'air de rien #61 (Maroc)

l'air de rien #61 (can on a hot tile roof) from cloudsandsea on Vimeo.

Edouard Hayem 1932 - 2010

bonjour amis d'Edouard!

Nous avons tant aime sa delicatesse.... voici un petit extrait sur youtube.

Ce jour la j'avais recu un nouveau appareil video mais comme vous allez constater je n'avais pas encore mis en main.!!

Mais quand j'ai vu Edouard dans le jardin j'ai vite pris cet appareil et le filmait.... pas terrible mais le cote "flou" n'est pas de tout ininteressant pour tous qui aimait Ed.

Ca fait justice quelquepart

je n'ai pas email adresse de Jacques et Francoise ni pour la famille Hayem.... si vous pouvez faire suivre a tous d'autres qui aime Ed.

Merci

Je vous embrasse tous

chris

chaulk

Inky sky!
Let me connect your stars 
With white chaulk!

fire

After a quarrel, 

Flying out of empty room,

The words of fire.

doves

Pair of mourning doves.

Evening lament

For old bachelor.

wet

After days of rain,
The frog's wet song
Drowning the trees. 

tiny

Gurgling gutters,
Home to green frogs
and tiny songs.

white

Under rainy sky
No umbrella for the bull
Or the white egret.

wire

Between barbed wire,

Like me, the old bull

Looks for something more.

last

So long Mr Toad!

Your last rainy night vigil.

The bright headlights.

star

Twilight beach.
Finding first star,
Then the next one.