A new, daily work in progress
A walk of 4872 paces | a red line of sorrow | where once stone was hewn | evening breezes winding down

using a @what3words location as the basis of a #haiku
///turntable.merchant.huts

on life's turntable
merchant classes dominate
so few live in huts

#walking #walkingartist #what3wordsphoto #stroud #redline @walctogether

A new, daily work in progress
A 2 day journey of 8 leagues on Tamēssa's dark waters | taken by slow moving current | a flash of kingfisher | passing through narrow passages between reedbeds and under fallen trees | under the bridges of old men

using a @what3words location as the basis of a #haiku

///bends.oppose.actual
rivers many bends
often oppose chosen course
fate in actual fact

#floatingartist #what3wordsphoto #thames @walctogether

A new, daily work in progress
A walk of 563 paces | elder and blackberry ripen | tinder dry grasses | crickets scatter

using a @what3words location as the basis of a #haiku
///melt.studio.hungry

ready to melt but
the cool studio beckons
now I feel hungry

#walking #walkingartist #what3wordsphoto #stroud @walctogether

A new, daily work in progress
A walk of 5236 paces | messages discovered | unseen buzzards | mystified dog walkers

using a @what3words location as the basis of a #haiku
///nooks.loose.deep

in these remote nooks
with only loose directions
lost in deep, dark woods

#walking #walkingartist #what3wordsphoto #stroud @walctogether

A new, daily work in progress
A walk of 1490 paces | finding deserted circles | echos under Brunel’s bridges | birdsong and distant traffic noise

using a @what3words location as the basis of a #haiku
///looked.hoped.risky

wherever he looked
those things he’d hoped to find
were proving risky

#walking #walkingartist #what3wordsphoto #stroud @walctogether

A new, daily work in progress
A walk of 1971 paces | curlews plaintive call | the River recedes | softly day begins

using a @what3words location as the basis of a #haiku
///revolts.estuaries.shine

a new day revolts
night pushed back as estuaries
shine with burnished bronze

#walking #walkingartist #what3wordsphoto #riversevern #sabrina @walctogether

A new, daily work in progress
A walk of 1243 paces | leaving my mark on the land | the land leaving a mark on me | under beechwood’s murmuring leaves

using a @what3words location as the basis of a #haiku
///forest.cloth.abode

not yet a forest
but under a cloth of green
still nature's abode

#walking #walkingartist #what3wordsphoto #stroud @walctogether

A new, daily work in progress
A walk of 5758 paces | slack tide suddenly changes | the River transformed | water rushes up channels

using a @what3words location as the basis of a #haiku
///salmon.using.petrified

salmon once swam here
and men using putchers fished
petrified of change

#walking #walkingartist #what3wordsphoto #riversevern @walctogether

A new, daily work in progress
A walk of 1534 paces | sentinel watches through tired eyes | over the wasteland of silent fields | stubble stands as a memorial

using a @what3words location as the basis of a #haiku
///disbelief.judge.pines

disbelief withheld
holding back the wish to judge
he pines for quietude

#walking #walkingartist #what3wordsphoto #gloucestershire @walctogether