Poet Profile

(aka Mikeymike) (Mike Keville)

I’m a nuts and bolts man / jack of all trades and a non-academic; not through choice - I have dyslexia and a very bad memory; but I get by with spell-check and a lot of help from my friends on 'FaceBook'... I’ve had poems appeared in some online magazines: Hedgerow, Sonic Boom, Failed Haiku, notes from the Gean and Lynx - A Journal of Linking Poets. I create also haiga and photo-haiga.

Awards and Other Honors: I’ve had a couple of honourable mentions in Failed Haiku’s H. Gene Murtha Senryu Contests (2016 and 2018) and in the Prune Juice Jane Reichhold’s Memorial Haiga Competition (2016).

Books Published: between here and home a lifetime, ed. Caroline Skanne, wildflower poetry press, 2016.

song thrush
adding the missing notes
to an old wind chime

winter leaves
next time he asks
I just might go

street light
never apart for long
me and my shadow 

carpe diem
but first
breakfast

family tree
the seed that fell
further away

post-op
from behind a cloud
sunshine

Credits: between here and home a life time, ed. Caroline Skanne, wildflower poetry press, 2016.