The smallest room yields
to the expanding kitchen;
more home improvements.
by Scooj.
Dethroned
Category: 1. Haiku
Painting the ceiling
Why don’t we simply
pay for a professional
to suffer for us?
by Scooj
Split
Nation divided
by weather and politics;
flood, drought and Brexit.
by Scooj
Hail
At first a gentle
plink plink tapping the windows,
then the crescendo.
by Scooj
Dad joke
.
Last words to colleagues –
‘armageddon outta here’;
pained groans and laughter.
.
by Scooj
Context is all – the office conversation as I was packing up to leave was about the terrible and declining state of the world, of everything.
The wall
Those days can happen,
when you don’t know what to do
when you hit the wall.
by Scooj
Clowns
Beneath the costume
we are not so different
you the clown and I.
by Scooj
Late in the office
Others have gone home;
shut the door on your way out
I think to myself.
by Scooj
Nightmare
.
Everywhere I look
I see the ragged remnants
of my waking dreams.
.
by Scooj
Autumn
Halowe’en is gone
pumpkins hurled in the compost;
time passes quickly.
by Scooj
Natural adventures 