This set of haiku was written during a trip to
the Southern tip of Africa during November 2014.
Brooding heat
Impala runs for shadow
Cheetah for impala
Mosquitos buzzing
As we eat and talk
And welcome the bats
Frangipani
A fallen blossom, withering
Still smelling of youth
Blue starlings
Grabbing leftover chips
What a happy spring!
Spring evening
Frogs begin their concert
No ticket needed
Spring shower of rain
The savannah puts on green
Murky waterholes
Jacaranda tree
Flambuoyand with blue blossoms
But they fall like we
After 60 years
Still feeling
Like a puppy
Fresh dew on the grass
Don't call the sun to wake up
Early cicada
Soon after sunset
All cars must leave Etosha
Wilderness remains
Table mountain
Looking down the abyss
Falcon rises
Black night
Black Sabbath playing
Suddenly white noise
Kalahari below
All is red dust
Just like myself
At the waterhole
All animals in peace
So it seems
Corrugated roof
Birds in the Jacarandas
Blossoms on the road
Reddish brown water
white spray down the waterfall
Black crow flying by
Past the waterfall
Cormorant dries its' wings
My dry mouth
Cascades of white water
Running over black basalt
A heli circles
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