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Where nightmares come true
slowly shoppers shuffle
off to the gallows.
by Scooj
Category: 1. Haiku
Contrast
Scorched earth, parched parkland
marked with civic oases
dry weather sets in.
by Scooj
*except for this weekend when it is due to rain.
Upfest upset
Bloody typical!
after months of dry weather
rain due for Upfest.
by Scooj grrrr.
Office view
Here sit I each day
overlooking the treetops
dreaming of freedom.
by Scooj
This Haiku started off as something rather different, but I didn’t like it – I include it below just to demonstrate the transition of what I wanted to convey, but couldn’t in the first form.
It’s a privilege
to sit at canopy height
and observe the birds.
Car boot sale
Little shelter from
an intensifying sun;
moved heaps of crap though.
by Scooj
Downside summer
Scorched earth allotment
courgette plants and beans withered;
prolonged dry weather.
by Scooj
Blackberrying
Succulent berries
nature’s generous bounty;
purple stained fingers.
by Scooj
Ant day
A few days each year
queen ants emerge from their nests;
gull feeding frenzy.
by Scooj
Beautiful Demoiselle
Rising from the stream
graceful fluterer settles;
an angel in blue.
by Scooj
Blur
A miracle of
convergent evolution;
hummingbird hawk moth.
by Scooj
Natural adventures 