Australian Summer Haiku

Storm in the morning

A summer day has gone by

Storm in the arvo.

Lucette C. Bailliet 

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Why the rush?

I'm certain of it

I'm sure, it's so obvious

Death has recruited apprentices

Business is booming

Waiting lists are full

Everyone around me

Has received a notice

Pacemaker, skin cancer,

Lung cancer, Diabetes,

Accident, Alzheimers, old age 

And the list is endless

Why the sudden rush?

Has Death doubts

About the next few months?

Does she know something we don't?

Wants to clear the deck, so to say

For a new influx?

Overtime, that's what she does

Or so it looks to me

Calm down, will you, 

You have Eternity 

After all working for you!

Lucette C. Bailliet 

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Zen

It is fascinating 

How a philosophy 

Based on mindfulness 

And immobility 

Has across time

Managed to paint, 

To write, to capture, 

The instant, the moment

The movement frozen into eternity

The second when a wave

Is to crash, a leaf to fall,

A bird to fly, a moon to rise

A woman to reveal herself

Beauty then becomes

An expression of fleeting perception

For us to enjoy.

Lucette C. Bailliet 

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Woolf moon

Woolf moon 

Her silent scream

Mounts from the horizon

To fill the night sky

Her ruddy tint shows 

She was successful 

In her kill tonight

Super moon 

As she climbs 

The night mountain

She cleans herself 

And takes her place

Disdainful and contemptuous 

Of the world below her

For she knows

There is no rival

In existence to compete

With her serenity.

Lucette C. Bailliet 

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Childhood friends

Where are you 

Friends of my  childhood?

Violette, Charlotte, Arlette,

Armelle, Brigitte, Françoise 

Like the pearls of a necklace

Strung between two silken knots

You are but shadows of my youth

You only exist in my memory

Between a span of a few years 

I have forgotten your face,

The colour of your eyes,

The games we played,

The stories we made

Only the sound of your names remains.

Empty shells of grownups

If married you would  have changed your name

If divorced you might have reverted to your maiden name

I knew you by your first names

You were my friends

That was sufficient for me

Childhood does not care

For social protocols 

Already your steps imprints

Are fading on the road of souvenirs

In the whirlwind of life.

You and I have moved on

Nostalgia might be romantic

For a moment or two

But the pull forward

To get on with it 

Is too strong a current to resist

So Au revoir and adieu 

My lost friends. 

Lucette C. Bailliet 

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Murray-Darling River

If our neighbour

Declares a river

Has the same rights

As a human being,

Here in Oz

We go one further,

And kill out 

Our main river

All for the sake

Of holy greed.

One would think

Water is primordial 

To life on the driest continent

It turns out that profit is.

Rest In Peace!

Lucette C. Bailliet 

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My pen is blunt

EeeMy pen is blunt nowadays 

Where is the rage against injustice

Sharpening its point?

Today I want more kindness.

Where is the horror shock

To wars and their victims?

Today I want more love.

Where is the sense of emergency 

When looking at climate change disasters?

Today I want more security.

Is my due time limit showing its obsolescence?

Acceptation of droughts and cyclones 

Devastation and catastrophes 

Have done their job of slow erosion

Today I want to live in peace.

I'm tired and it shows

No scandal rises my ire any more 

Be it political, economic, 

Social or environmental 

I let the bygones be bygones.

The world can fight without me

Until I can put a smile back 

On my beloved faces 

Then it's all I need to return 

To dispatch the fiery windmills 

Lightning the world's skyscape.

Lucette C. Bailliet 

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Falling asleep

Falling asleep

In the blackness of the night

Falling asleep 

In the inert silence of the night

Breathing slowly, deeply, heavily

In the stickiness of the airless night

Limiting sight behind

The drawn blinds of her eyelids

What's there to see 

In a room 

With closed curtains

Behind closed Windows 

Behind  locked shutters

Blocking any moonlight 

Tempting to awake

Sleeping Beauty

Resting there

Her mind is a blank ripple

Crossing the mirror 

Of her nightlight dreams

Empty dreamscape 

Of perpetual fog

Swirling to an unfelt wind

To the Rhythm of an absent music

Time advances by ticking away

Infinite disturbance 

Tearing at her flesh endlessly 

Remorselessly to dissipate

Erasing her remains. 

For To sleep is to die nightly.

Lucette C. Bailliet 

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The blind assassin

It is said

One has to be grateful 

For small favours

Then I'm grateful

For pens is what we handle

As writers we are

And not butchers

Otherwise knives

Would fly and

Blood would flow

Bad blood

Coloured black

By rumour

For if Justice is blind

Rumour is the blind assassin.

Lucette C. Bailliet 

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Chilling out

You know it's hot

When the rhubarb stems wilt at sight

You know it's hot

When the strawberries melt in the shade

You know it's hot

When the chilli are drooping 

You know it's hot

The basil goes limp

You know it's hot

When the roses wither on the spot

You know it's hot

When in the evening breeze

You chill out with Eyes Bloodshot, 

Tales of Halloween! 

Lucette C. Bailliet 

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So proud to have my first chilling story published within, thank you to TSL, Ampat Koshy,  Firdaus Pervez, Aakriti Kuntal, Santosh Bakaya and everyone involved!!!

Sunset

Sunset sees us

Stomping in the forest

Hunting any hint

Of a fresh breeze

A welcomed respite

After the scorching heat 

Of a summer day

Swiftly we lose depth

The forest becomes

A Flat set

Of black vertical trunks

Against a fiery vivid display

Beautiful Chinese shadow screen

The world is but a show

You can watch it

Or you can be part of it

The choice is yours.

Lucette C. Bailliet 

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Whroo, Whroo

Whroo, whroo

The bronzed wood pigeons 

Wooing all day long

Whroo, whroo

No respite 

From the crested wood pigeons

Their wooing intrudes

On my mind

Whroo, whroo

When suddenly 

The penny drops

Whroo, whroo

Isn't the name of the gold digging place

Of yore in the forest?

It's neither a British name,

Nor an aboriginal one, 

Just an onomatopoeia!

Love it!

Lucette C. Bailliet 

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Happy 2019

It's too hot to be sad

It's too late to be unhappy 

Here are The end of 2018

And the birth 0f 2019

No expectations for that one

What's the use

Just get on with it

So let's celebrate,

Happy New Year!

Lucette C. Bailliet 

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