{"id":33670,"date":"2016-11-22T06:30:17","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T17:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=33670"},"modified":"2016-11-20T17:20:16","modified_gmt":"2016-11-20T04:20:16","slug":"tuesday-poetry-a-haiku-beachcombing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2016\/11\/22\/tuesday-poetry-a-haiku-beachcombing\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Poetry: A Haiku &#8220;Beachcombing&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>beachcombing<br \/>\nalong the boulder bank<br \/>\nsandshoe, bottles, watering can<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 Helen Lowe<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/12\/24\/tuesday-poem-christmastide\/hakatere-nov13-439a\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23617\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-23617 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Hakatere-Nov13-439a-150x112.jpg\" alt=\"Walks in wild places can be good for the heart...\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Hakatere-Nov13-439a-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Hakatere-Nov13-439a-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Hakatere-Nov13-439a.jpg 615w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Recently, I&#8217;ve been focusing on poetry themed around the sea, including haiku. This is one of mine, from 2014, when I spent several months in a remote coastal location, finishing <a href=\"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/daughterofblood.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Daughter of Blood<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<h4>Prior \u2018Sea\u2019 Poems include:<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2016\/09\/06\/the-sea-by-tim-jones-a-tuesday-feature\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cThe Sea\u201d by Tim Jones<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2016\/09\/27\/tuesday-poetry-dover-beach-excerpt-by-matthew-arnold-1822-1888\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cDover Beach\u201d (Excerpt) by Matthew Arnold<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2016\/10\/04\/tuesday-poetry-breathing-you-in-by-david-gregory\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cBreathing You In\u201d by David Gregory<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2016\/10\/11\/tuesday-poetry-we-are-more-than-half-water-by-helen-rickerby\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cWe are more than half water\u201d by Helen Rickerby<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2016\/10\/18\/tuesday-poetry-the-rime-of-the-ancient-mariner-excerpt-by-samuel-taylor-coleridge\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Part 1 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2016\/10\/25\/tuesday-poetry-the-seafarer-excerpt-from-the-anglo-saxon-poem\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Seafarer\u201d Excerpt from the Anglo Saxon poem (Anonymous)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2016\/11\/01\/tuesday-poetry-two-short-poems-by-bernadette-hall\/\" target=\"_blank\">Two Short Poems by Bernadette Hall<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2016\/11\/08\/tuesday-poetry-the-woman-who-swims-with-the-jellyfish-by-janis-freegard\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cThe woman who swims with jellyfish\u201d by Janice Freegard<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2016\/11\/15\/tuesday-poetry-the-rough-sea-a-haiku-by-matsuo-basho\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cthe rough sea\u201d \u2014 a haiku by Matsuo Bash\u014d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>beachcombing along the boulder bank sandshoe, bottles, watering can \u00a9 Helen Lowe \u2014 Recently, I&#8217;ve been focusing on poetry themed around the sea, including haiku. This is one of mine, from 2014, when I spent several months in a remote coastal location, finishing Daughter of Blood. Prior \u2018Sea\u2019 Poems include: \u201cThe Sea\u201d by Tim Jones [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33670"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33673,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33670\/revisions\/33673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}