Housing estate
redeemed by trees overpowering
gangs of daisies

This course has been awesome, thank you. Living in an urban environment, I continually try to notice nature, to bring myself into the present, as a daily practice. Now I find haiku rising unbidden in my mind as I do this. And yes, those moments of illumination are the true happiness.

Long bus journey,
fields
crops
meadows
shouting back yellow!
to the sun

Skim the flattest stone
Leaps across the vast-wide-deep
potential ripples

You me one love
My skin, your fur, we purr-rr
the joy of kitten

Every spring canvas
scattered all about with white
birds, flowers, clouds.

The whispering wind
sighs and soughs,
sweet ones elsewhere
all around blossoms