
Sometimes the beauty
of my home world
is too big to bear

Rachel McAlpine CC BY 2.0
Sometimes the beauty
of my home world
is too big to bear
Rachel McAlpine CC BY 2.0
Sometimes only a shadow
shows the loveliness
of the thing
Rachel McAlpine CC BY 2.0
your fingers
fronding my spine—
green waters
Haiku written in a workshop at Palmerston North on Valentine’s Day 2019. Poem and photo cc by 2.0 Rachel McAlpine: copy and share as you please, with attribution.
I am human
I make mistakes.
Morning glory, evening shame.
with such devotion
one by one
you kill those baby caterpillars
pic and poem by rachel mcalpine cc by 2.0
Daily Prompt from The Daily Post: Tend
candle for the planet —
let’s keep the flames
in a jam jar
pic and poem by rachel mcalpine cc-by-2.0
climate change —
an end to nuance, long text
and dappled things
pic and poem by rachel mcalpine cc-by-2.0
photo and haiku by rachel mcalpine CC BY 2.0
we kissed in the sea —
now sand is smiling
in the carpet
haiku by rachel mcalpine CC BY 2.0 photo of Oriental Bay, Wellington, by David Leverton CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
and everyone had a sticky
floaty flimsy short-term shadow
trying to lose the sun
poem and photo rachel mcalpine CC BY 2.0