Haiku

Year 9 Lincoln High School students wrote these haiku on a trip to the Botanic Gardens. Their work is published as part of The Pulse Pilot.

By Angus McGregor

Leaves The giant green leaves
Towering high above me
Lots of them around

Water falling down
From big rocks up above me
Into pond beneath

Big sticks standing tall
Touching the roof above me
With leaves on them

By Alice Lyall

Specks of gold flecked trees
Quiet and careful catches eyes
Draws you even closer

Gentle teardrop leaves
Have long flown across grey skies
The weeping willow cries

Winters forgotten leaves
Lie abandoned on the ground
Golden earthy hues

The blue above winds fingers
Felt only by the windswept trees
Deepest furthest site

Long rigid bare limbs
Crying out for leaves sweet warmth
Waits for spring in hope

By Elizabeth Peters

Gardens The botanical
Gardens, a ray of colours,
Beauty surrounds you

I lie in the tree
Looking for inspiration
My page blank of words

By Ewen Clayden

Sundial doesn’t work
Complicated to read time
Silly ancient thing

Fun to crawl in
Fiberglas material
The cave is a fake

By Miles Bennett

Pearl smattering
Golden cones of summer days
All things must slow

Leaning child
Falling leaves of eternal colour
Rippled green water

Screams contaminate
The smoggy air of time
Voices float to their ancestors

The over kill
A deadening silence
Never ending

By Harry West

Lying on hard ground,
Unaware of life above,
Where they used to be.

Orange and yellow,
Hiding the grass of summer,
A memory now.

Moss lay undisturbed,
Underneath the silent oak,
Taking in sunlight.

By Hannah Ballantyne

plants It shines like crystal
Yet it shimmers ocean blue
Beautiful paua

Reach towards the sky
Branches are brown, leaves are green
The evergreen tree

By Jess Ashton

Calming blue ripples
Hidden depths of savage green
Marred by bars of steel

Roots of dirt and brick
Beauty hidden in shadows
Dazzles in sunlight

Leaves cling to their branches
Gradually they fade and fall
Buds of life spring forth

By Rosie Wilson-Taylor

A stone look alike
But something is different
A face is imprisoned inside
A mans
Dark colours swirl around him
Different coloured birds try to help
But quickly fly away
Finding the black magic deeply hidden inside.

Watching the ducks swim
Moving round so peacefully
Under the sunshine

Human like creatures
Living on branches of trees
In a secret land

By Tristan Misselbrook

Willow covered shore
Speckled ducks thrive and eat bread
Rock living deep down

As green as cool grass
The bright sun lighting them up
Neat ferns so perfect

By Zane Cameron

The crane amazing
it sits there silhouetted
against dark blue sky

Sprinkling of colours
Seeming to shine under the
Great ball of gas, sun

September 2009

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