HAIKU

In this section you’ll find a quieter companion to the images — poems that echo the light, shape and silence behind the photos. For my book Fleeting Reflections II I invited poets via Instagram to respond to selected images with their own haiku, collaborating with The Wee Sparrow Poetry Press to pair photograph and poem in a subtle cross-medium dialogue.

Each haiku honours the spirit of traditional Japanese “haiga” — short, image-evoking poems that don’t explain, but rather resonate. The combination of photograph and haiku invites a second look: you see the light, the water, the reflection — and you feel. The poem doesn’t describe what’s there, it hints; it leaves space for memory, mood or silence.

So scroll slowly. Let each page hold its quiet pulse: the shimmering photograph, the whispered poem. Together they become something more than picture or text — a fleeting moment turned still, yet alive with suggestion.