Category: Haiku

Posted in Art, Blog, Haiku

Chorus Line

Posted on by Alan McKean 

Astride the old bridge
Watching the waters below
Pondering the day

Gentle chorus line,
Conducted by two lamp posts,
Serenades brown rocks



©Alan McKean

©Simon Footitt (painting)
Posted in Haiku

Cosmological constants

Posted on by Alan McKean 

New moon carries the
Old and tired one in her arms
On their way to Spring

Basic universe
Held together by gluons
riding the photons

multiversical
poetry transcends simple
Einstein-Rosen bridge

Universal truth
Stored in the interstices
Of current space-time

Forget rocketry
Travel at the speed of thought
Trans phasic warp speed




©Alan McKean, February 2015
Posted in General, Haiku

Promenade

Posted on by Alan McKean 
Dowdy seaside town
With its mile of tacky shops
Twixt station and beach

A bucket and spade
On a crowded Blackpool beach.
Childhood memories.

The incoming tide
Washes sandcastles away.
Buggrit! Start again.

Rock pools full of life
Await the incoming tide
To refresh that life.

The sea, a soft blue
Covers the rocks and beaches,
Until the next low tide.

Wet sand and ice cream,
Pennies in the slot machines,
Pier end performers.

Tired audience
And faded comedians.
October pier end.



©Alan McKean.  January 2008
Posted in General, Haiku

Perspective

Posted on by Alan McKean 

What if
Our universe
Was someone else’s strange quark

Imagine
A galaxy
The size of a Muon

Picture
Our solar system
In a Florence flask

Consider
The Oort Cloud
Does it keep us in, or others out?

Maybe
Our reality
Is nowt long by bugger all wide

Is our existence
Just stringing us along
Or
Are we just becoming
Entangled
In the here and there?


God knows





©Alan McKean
December 2019