- winter paddock
- the horse's breath
- warms my hands
-
- clearing sky
- a watermelon rind
- on the tide line
-
- afternoon sun -
- the whiteness
- of a gliding egret
[famous reporter # 39 : Jun 2009]
- a mug of coffee...
- new screws in
- my old table
-
- a cat bird cries
- I stroke the trunk
- of a brushbox
-
- flowering gum
- the flash of mirrors
- from her skirt
-
- monday morning
- sequinned sandals under
- my pandanus
[famous reporter # 37 : Jun 2008]
- winter grass
- the wheeling kestrel's
- russet back
-
- midday hush
- sound of the cow
- breathing
-
- bush track
- my puppy runs towards
- a lyre bird's whistle
-
- roosting doves
- the goanna's claws sunk
- into the bark
[famous reporter # 35 : Jun 2007]
A week in Tasmania : haiku sequence
- take off...
- the plane's underbelly
- lit by sunrise
-
- arrivals gate--
- today's face masks
- the child I knew
-
- bitter morning
- bridge piers skewer
- the pewter Derwent
-
- 90th birthday
- she still sparkles
- over champagne
-
- Port Arthur--
- a parrot perches
- between bars
-
- placid inlet
- smoke rises from
- the Isle of the Dead
-
- sun-warmed sandstone
- the roughness
- of weathered chisel marks
-
- memorial garden
- a rabbit
- pauses on the path
-
- quiet road
- the kilometres marked
- by dead Devils
-
- leaving
- the corrugated coastline
-
tilts
[famous reporter # 34 : Dec 2006]
- parched grass
- the bird pulls a worm
- from its shadow
-
- winter lullaby
- the baby grasps
- at her breath
[famous reporter # 33 : Aug 2006]
- blossom -
- I walk through the sound
- of bees
-
- hard-baked earth
- a broken hippeastrum
- oozes sap
-
- cliff-top walk
- heavy rain joins
- sky to ocean
-
- sleepless night
- I tap out syllables
- on my pillow
[famous reporter # 31 : Nov 2005]
NATHALIE BUCKLAND, who lives in
Nimbin, has written poetry since childhood. Having discovered haiku a few years ago, she
is now a member of the local haiku groups 'cloudcatchers' and 'Wollumbin Haiku Workshop'.
Her work has been published both in Australia and overseas. She also sings with a women's
band.