Tim Gardiner
Born 1978, Great Yarmouth, United Kingdom.
Manningtree, Essex, United Kingdom.
Dr Tim Gardiner is an ecologist, poet and children's author from Manningtree in Essex, UK. His haiku have been published in over 100 print and online magazines and he has been widely anthologised. His first collection of haiku and senryu, On the Edge, was published by Brambleby Books in 2017.
Personal webpage http://www.essexfieldclub.org.uk/portal/p/Insect+poetry.
Christmas Eve
just one more
childhood lie
past the basho tree sumo on a bike
a phone rings
in an empty office
poet's day
Financial Times, October, 2014, republished in Haiku in the Workplace
basho's house
damn it
another frog
smuggler's coracle
I poach a smile
from your lips
Blithe Spirit 27.3, November 2017
lone ranger riding in and out of love
Blithe Spirit 27.3, November 2017
tumbleweed
getting the hell
out of dodge
I let her
into my life
Trojan Horse
Blithe Spirit 28.1, February 2018
empty tomb
the footprints of those
who came before
crumpled
on my desk
paper tigers
for once
jazz seems appropriate
the bar half full
donkey ride
a boy carried away
from his father
Presence 56, October 2016
his childhood a mirror to my own