Multiverse & Standard Haiga

From Robert Kingston

Attached were Both recently published in “The word on the street” a Christian journal in the US.

Enjoy:

Haiku in Action 2

 Haiku in Action 2

by Robert Kingston

Haiku in Action 1

 

Haiku in Action 1

by Robert Kingston

 Two Haiku (from Rob)

 

Robert Kingston

 

I am pleased to let you know that the following pieces have been accepted for publication within Issue #111 of Failed Haiku.

 

foundry floor

steelworkers dance about

the overspill

 

bonfire night

the Roman candle finishes

with a puff

 

In the blackbird’s wake

 

Sleep is not something I am good at. Listening to yet another dawn chorus is a commonality I share with the birds. Today is no different to yesterday as I read and tune into noise from others around the globe

 

whale song

weaving my way back

into a dream

 

Robert Kingston, UK

First published, Pan Haiku review 5 2025

 

 A haiku by me

Robert Kingston

 

long day

a toddler’s eyelids

fight the darkness

 

By Robert Kingston

 

Recently published in Blithe Spirit, Volume 35/ number 2

A rengay by an American friend and I.

Robert Kingston / Carole MacRury

 

Dust Covered Clock

 

curio shop

a Jack in the box

ready to pounce

 

what’s one more

tarnished silver spoon

 

in a dark corner

the taxidermist’s

laboured smile

 

looking for love

a vintage teddy        

with a torn ear

 

questions ring out about 

the vase’s provenance 

 

still on the shelf

a dust-covered clock

that lost its chime

 

Robert Kingston / Carole MacRury

 

Recently published in Blithe Spirit, Volume 35/ number 2

  

Haiga Collaboration by Poet & Painter

 Haiga collaboration by Poet & Painter

Dawn Van Win & Robert Kingston

Both are writers & artists in their own right, but in this work Rob wrote on two of Dawn's canvases to good effect:

 Copyright Poem Rob, Painting Dawn

Shahai

 

 Shahai - Brandy hole, taken from SWF side of the river.

The pond surrounded Wollemi pines at Markshall estate in Coggleshall. (a species from when dinosaurs roamed the earth). The estate holds the biggest collection of these pines outside of their native Australia. 

 

 

By Robert Kingston

Sci-fi ku

 Sci-fi ku 

 (To hear commentary on the three short listed poems click on the link below)

https://poetrypea.com/5752-2/

 

sky ladder

the Devil’s tongue licks

the stars

 

by Robert Kingston

Honourable mention

Poetry pea 2024

Haiku from a resident Poet

false hope

a cancer referral
rings off again
a murder of crows circle
the intrusive buzzard

Robert Kingston
Blithe Spirit winter edition 2024



A short sequence

sleepy dawn
hitting the snooze button
for the third time

anchorage
snuggling deeper within
her arms

half awake
my lifts’ hooter at
the front gate

Robert Kingston
The British haiku fb page


common bog
losing a shoe
midway through




Limerick? 

there was a tree named oak

he’d shed all his leaves, no joke

he stood there all bare

throughout winters austere

then in spring, he grew a new cloak

 

Copyright Robert Kingston

 Limerick?

By Robert Kingston

 

there was a tree named oak

he’d shed all his leaves, no joke

he stood there all bare

throughout winters austere

then in spring, he grew a new cloak

 

Robert Kingston

 

Haiku Collaborations :

Haiku Collaborations :

By Rob Kingston & Christina Chin 

Enjoy...

No Title

 It is piece where I was asked to provide ten lines of something different, whilst still having a connection to Japanese short form poetry.

In this case I chose to interspersed a tanka with an opening verse from something I wrote back in 2015/16.

No title.

By Robert Kingston

 all at once 

Out into the shadows of mighty cranes trod 

      the cherry on the corner

Distant sound of pulleys, wires whining through the sky 

      releases its blossom 

Muffled sounds of toiling, on occasion a ship's fog horn 

      we reflect on memories 

A milkman laughs and whistles, 

        in the family home 

As birds traverse through Autumn's dewy ply. 

 

By Robert Kingston ~ from (Pan Haiku Review, August 2024)

 

A Junicho (renku)

 A Junicho (renku)

 

Started July 2023

Complete October  2023

 

Campsite Magpies

fragrant breeze

campsite magpies gather

around a bin bag                rk

 

a flash shower

tops the water bucket         pc

 

checking off

another thing to do

before I die                        lmp

 

an evening of blues

and table clank                  db

 

the harvest moon

pops up between lotus leaves

in a temple pond.              ak

 

clock work orange

in the midst of Autumn's first chill    db

 

a car trembles

with the weight of two

in the parking lot.              ak

 

Casanova scarfing down

a plate of oysters               lmp

 

crushed shells

form a path through

The Mar-a-Lago Club.         rk

 

cancer cells

limited within the gland.     ak

 

until sunset

we dance in fields

of daffodils                          pc

 

as far as the eye can see

hilltopping butterflies.          lmp

 

Sabaki - Robert Kingston

 

rk - Robert Kingston

pc - Pris Campbell

db- Don Baird

lmp - Linda Papanicolaou

ak - Amoolya Kamalnath

 

Campsite Magpies” —Frogpond 47:2 Spring/Summer 2024

A Haibun and a Haiku

 A Haibun and a Haiku

By Rob Kingston 

Aligning stars

How weird, you're thinking about something that has come through spiritual lines and you open today's wordle and type a relative word.

strike one
the clatter of skittles
dancing on the floor

Haiku

gong bath

a bit of me in full

chakra colours 

Both were published in last month's Blithe Spirit Volume 34, number 2

 

A Renku

a renku

 

from Rob Kingston

 

published in the British journal, Blithe Spirit yesterday.

 

CHILD’S HAND (Shisan)

 

nursery garden

a single cherry blossom

in the child’s hand                           rk

 

balloons

roll across the grass                        ak 

 

on the tin roof

light rain

rousts the sparrows                         db

 

that summer night more than

father would have approved              rk

 

her prince

left hugging his pillow 

dreams glass slippers                       pc

 

the hairpin bend

reveals resting tahrs                         ak 

 

behind the band shell

a clarinet

gathers dust and rust                        pc

 

fog slides in 

to join us for hors d'oeuvres              db 

 

the Man in the Moon

beams gently through

a hospice room                                 ak

 

SS Kidwelly 

still speaks of its ghosts                     rk

 

downstream

a bonfire

smokes canyon walls                          ak 

 

hieroglyphics

for decoding come morning                pc 

 

Sabaki - Linda Papanicolaou USA

rk - Robert Kingston UK

ak - Amoolya Kamalnath INDIA

db- Don Baird   USA

pc - Pris Campbell.  USA

 

  

Triage

Triage 

Robert Kingston

these interruptions 

that start her tears

Spring rain

We had been walking in the woods before opting for the patio at the old café beneath the arches. The sea playing a soft rendition of a Chopin nocturne between the morning traffic holds some kind of draw. Our regular waitress, after setting our tray down on the table, asks if everything is okay. Placing a hand on her arm, I mention all is fine as a seal pops its head above a wave.

        Post-treatment

        A sugar lump in her tea

        Disappears

 Haibun for Christmas Day

 HaikuKATHA

By Robert Kingston

This one was published in the haikuKATHA journal. India.

 

Have a merry Christmas and new year.

See you in 2024

 

time warp

telling the youth

I was young once

 

Copyright Rob Kingston