Sir Benfro Haiku* by Elizabeth Obadina

Dawn - ready for Wales

Through the fog a blackbird sings

Dusk - rain-drenched welcome

Slate-grey granite cliffs

Wind-blown gorse. Trees bent double

Pembrokeshire unchanged

Sirens sounds. Lifeboat launched.

Blue skies, blue seas, gulls wheeling,

No call-outs today.

Graptolites on slate

Three hundred million years

Waiting for daylight

Sunset in Porthgain

Fifty years spent visiting

With friends, not much’s changed

* This year I resolved to at least write a haiku everyday, even if I don’t manage to write anything else! I spent a couple of days this March catching some rare rays of sunshine in Pembrokeshire - known as Sir Benfro in Welsh.