Welcome to my blog “Photos-Poetry-Haiku”. I hope you enjoy your visit. I am an Amateur Photographer / Poet from Dumfries in beautiful South West Scotland.
I enjoy Minimalist Photography, sometimes single images, sometimes multiple images on a theme. Most images here will be in colour but I’ll include black and white images too.
My poems tend to be short, I’m a Scot after all and words are precious things! I also write in Scots dialect. Whether Scots is a separate language or not, I’ll leave to others, I just like to write.
The above probably explains my interest in Haiku and its associated forms. I agree with the statement that syllable and line count are not vital in contemporary English (Scots!!!) language haiku. Many writers produce fine haiku using the 5-7-5 syllable count, however, I feel that counting English syllables in this way can make the haiku too long and can loose the essential quality of the form. Haibun are prose poems that use embedded haiku to enhance the overall effect, although the haiku should be able to stand on its own without referring to the prose. Haiga combine an image with a haiku in the same relationship as the two parts of a haibun.
Anyway, enough of the arty-farty stuff. Please use the menu to navigate, I’ll add and update as I go on, I’m still new to this! Also, please feel free to comment, one of the main points of this is to connect with like minded people.
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Just found your pages Derek, goodness there’s some wonderful stuff here. I love Hill O Stanes.
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Thanks for that Richard, means a lot coming from you. I meant to do this sort of thing before, this lockdown made me get the finger out! Have you pages on here?
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Nice blog
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Today, you gained a fan of both your writing and photography as well as a blog follower. I’ll be back to enjoy more of the beauty you share.
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Thanks for your kind comments, fair made my day! Makes it all worth while.
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Your winter poem is quite brilliant. I love how you wove a double meaning with the deepness of the silence as well as the snow.
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Thanks again. I’m pretty new to the blog world. I started it as a way to get through lockdown. Fair chuffed you liked the Scots poem before, hope it wasn’t too difficult for you. Haiku and minimalist images go together I reckon. Anyway, great to meet you and hope all well with you over there. It’s a small world 👍🤗🙏🏻
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Having watched a number of Scottish movies, I could absolutely hear the dialect in my head as I read your poem. It was magic. I hope you’ll continue to blog even after the world has been returned to a safe place. I enjoy both your photographs and your writing. Be well.
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Just stumbled across your blog. Some beautiful stuff here, Derek with rare perception and depth. Thank you – I shall be back.
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Thank you for your very kind comments. Makes it all worthwhile. I enjoy your thoughts on life and will keep in touch with your blog. Hope W is keeping well 🙏🏻👍
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She is indeed Derek, thank you. Four and a bit months on and she’s walking almost normally again now.
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Entertaining ! I’ll follow you !
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Thanks a lot, we seem to have done similar interests, so I’ll reciprocate 👍
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Thank you so much, Derek . Awesome post ! really enjoyed the read !
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Hello Derek, from across the North Channel. I’m only finding you today and love your blog!
I also write, but seasonal 3-line verses, and like you, I find the 5-7-5 syllable count too rigid. From my reading, I understand that the Japanese do not have punctuation marks as we know them but use “cutting” words instead and so in translation, these “cutting” words have been counted as syllables!
I have signed up to follow you 🙋♂️ (By the way, this Ashley is male; think, Gone With The Wind, and that will give you an idea of my age).
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Hello Ashley, great to hear from you. Thanks so much got your kind words, much appreciated. Your quite right about “cutting words” in haiku, which enforces the idea that 5-7-5 is too long in English. Ill return the follow, and yes, I remember With The Wind too ! 😱
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