MOVING & CREATIVITY

After replying to Kevin, I realized how much of my creativity is linked to moves. I don’t know why I hadn’t discovered this fact before, but I hadn’t. I mentioned how living in St. Leonards-on-Sea influenced my choice of location for my WW II novels "The Invisible Piper" and "Tempting The Stars." But forgot how Vienna inspired me to write so much poetry. For a few months, I couldn’t stop writing haiku while I was walking around the Stadt-Park. [There is also a darker side to Vienna which I will explore in a later blog. ] Here I will concentrate on the beauty.

Here are a few of the haiku I wrote in Vienna. I hope you enjoy them.

HAIKU

SNOWDROP

The frozen snow-drop

lies in a dark world waiting

for light to touch it.

BEAUTY

Melody is heard

in two lovers' minds as they

hold a golden note.

THE EARLY BIRD

The bird swoops swiftly

before his early breakfast

can wriggle away.

A HAIKU

I am kept awake

by insistent syllables

stealing all my sleep.

VIENNA

A city at sleep

rises to greet a bright dawn

waiting to be touched.

 I'm sure other people's travels have inspired their writing too.