Renewability Haiku Hike
From LansburyVoices
Renewability Haiku Hike
The Renewability Haiku Hike took place on the weekend of November 18th and 19th 2006. On Saturday 18th, there was a Haiku Workshop and on Sunday 19th a walk around the Olympic site.
See also http://renewability-haikuhike.blogspot.com/ and Crossover
The exhibition of the work from Lansbury Voices and other groups is now on show at the Art Pavillion in Mile End (until Sunday 11th February 2007).
The Art Pavillion in a few minutes walk from Mile End Tube Station in Ashcroft Road
The Hike (along The Greenway)
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The Haiku
oak tree twenty-four years of slowness cut still alec whiting -------------------------- orange and green leaves on a nearly bare tree street lights victoria coakley -------------------------- gray hoodies and white sneakers black stains on the dark brick wall michi warren -------------------------- dry leaves on the floor bringing the dirty outside in anne mathews -------------------------- chilled air on my face virginia creeper hangs over the brick wall louise joly -------------------------- shivering leaves a boy disappears into an arched gate saori shimada -------------------------- cold chill ivy entangled and trapped in a fence dorothy paul -------------------------- cold draught a few golden leaves at dusk sprite -------------------------- fallen twig under autumn leaves a crisp snap philip of brockley -------------------------- blocked drain a wheelbarrow propped up against the wall june murphy -------------------------- seldom cigarette burns smoke chokes the frosty air observing with strangers katherine norton -------------------------- leaves on the ground people walk around seeing what they want patsy evans -------------------------- long lost mate fallen leaves in a crisp sun and a silver cycle sprite -------------------------- cold wind a plane flies overhead trailing white gordon joly -------------------------- a lonely man stares out of a window children playing victoria coakley -------------------------- seven boys watch me thinking about this haiku what is she doing? louise joly -------------------------- emerald grass bright amongst the damp leaves watery sunlight anne mathews -------------------------- walking around outside i see a dog tied up his loud barking patsy evans -------------------------- kids jump up and down as the adults rush around floating leaves jahlisa wilson (age 11) -------------------------- a boat stagnent in the water red warehouses ivy -------------------------- silver leaves on agreen tree the iron bridge june murphy -------------------------- dark dirty and dusty a silent haven for rats uma -------------------------- hills of stone and iron the smell of burn dorothy paul unfinished buildings and weeping willows a ladies blue hat dorothy paul a magpie's warning call from the blackberry bush seagulls circle dorothy paul breezy winds my ears assaulted by an airplane dorothy paul we walk by graffitied walls a river flowing dorothy paul trees bow down to the running river a transfixed barge dorothy paul -------------------------- sunset over rubble a cold wind my coat is warm hugh and yukiko dark rippled water laps against bark shaped like teeth hugh and yukiko abandoned concrete blocks bags of waste under a lonely railway bridge hugh and yukiko -------------------------- wooden crocodile basking in the river lea watch out geese louise joly 'back the bid' the signs say next to the northern sewer change is here to stay louise joly dark path a man with a large lens and a big dog louise joly cold hands around a hot mug of tea at the mill haiku hike with friends louise joly -------------------------- a river crocodile its jaws agape protecting nature linda the swimming coot making waves winter sun linda behind the fence lots of rubbish hidden by hawthorn linda late november willow tired yellow leaves floating away linda -------------------------- fast traffic haiku hikers take their lives in their hands anne matthews robin throbs the towpath closure diverts us past rustling russet and a lock gate anne matthews shit pipes tyres and skips define industrial landscape the river flows anne matthews greenway passes rotten mattresses and front of drawers canary wharf watches anne matthews -------------------------- low evening sun shading eyes big black blackberries ceri williams -------------------------- a woman in black in unseasonal glasses trainspotting ros and ceri -------------------------- here we all are walking around and around freezing our butts off patsy evans as far as my eyes can see piles of stones and rubbish reaching up to the sky patsy evans as i stand and look around abandoned vehicles lying there among piles of rubbish patsy evans a cold and windy day we came to see sports but nowt happening patsy evans on the haiku walk i stand and watch as my friend trips and falls patsy evans -------------------------- majestic willows dog daisies all lost the haiku walk disintegration harmony graffiti in a concrete tunnel the greenway -------------------------- cars career past on the dirty road mean auntie katherine -------------------------- haiku paul walks across the room smithying words gordon joly words leaving lips, sounds arriving on ears gordon joly cold wind a plane flies overhead trailing white gordon joly the channel cut through our allotments now lost gordon joly a bridge closed paths to nowhere sluice gates gordon joly a bridge closed paths to nowhere sluice gates gordon joly a quite bridge Jake stomps his feet now past gordon joly a tree fills a frame nearby a panel beater gordon joly in a yard we hear the very voices of the beaters gordon joly spotty scooter burnt out and bleeding scorched and empty gordon joly the greenway goes one way and then back the other gordon joly back the bid like bad beer send it back gordon joly -------------------------- something hiding behind a brick jake whiting -------------------------- rubble, reeds and red buildings the river lea victoria coakley a junk yard full of old things the sun on a flowing stream victoria coakley a red boat a white boat a long old barge victoria coakley a small duck diving for food on a sunny wintery afternoon victoria coakley ripples on the water reflecting the ripples in my heart victoria coakley screaming scrapyards a scooter's skeleton on the greenway victoria coakley white swans on the towpath a man mends barges victoria coakley a glitter and glow the sun throws up shadows as the water flows victoria coakley climbing over the fence climbing through the trees a sponge shaped sun victoria coakley -------------------------- the path ends a barrier to cross traffic roars -------------------------- skeletons of water plants luxury waterside flats olympic village awaits -------------------------- the end of the road for white van man a green bath a round ball of light clouds in the west thank you! slime green doesn't flow only metal children play on wires bleak thin sun a DLR train shoots through promising escape orange green ripples ice winter breeze blows water plastic grows in trees as we find the river of sun -------------------------- many many make some things just like this... ching! jake whiting -------------------------- dark slimy river under a railway bridge green and slow hugh & yukiko power lines over dense vegetation beer can and crisp packet hugh & yukiko rusty building signs nettles and mud the sound of water hugh & yukiko a line of barges on a muddy bank darkness falls hugh & yukiko smoke drifts out from a barge chimney cosy light inside hugh & yukiko -------------------------- wooden birdshelter in the shape of a crocodile the river is flowing uma -------------------------- diddle diddle dumpling mike and john diddle diddle dumpling wanted some sweets she asked her mother but she said no so diddle diddle dumpling was sad and she fell into the river diddle diddle dumpling mike and john jake whiting --------------------------
