Category: 1. Haiku

Birthday

 

Clandestine wrapping

and signing of birthday cards,

the children and I.

 

by Scooj

Still working

 

Through venetian blinds

a segmented vista calls

out ‘pack up and go’.

 

by Scooj

Kang La Pass

 

I popped the question

at seventeen thousand feet,

a literal high.

 

by Scooj

First love

.

We were lovers once

those affections did not last

but they were not lost. 

.

by Scooj

Overcast

.

Uncompromising 

Mother Earth is in torpor

awaiting new life. 

.

by Scooj

C.R.I.P.

 

Awful acronyms

dehumanise our language,

dehumanise us.

 

by Scooj

 

  • I came across this at work today – Commonly Recognised Information Picture (CRIP) – a ‘management speak’ term used in emergency contexts. I think it means pulling together information and intelligence that will give us a clear understanding of what it going on. Shame on the person who coined this one.

Bookshop

.

No satisfaction

thumbing through volumes of books

I will never read. 

.

by Scooj

Growth

.

I’m in the greenhouse

That’s where you’ll find me, growing

As a human bean. 

.

by Scooj
* With apologies. 

Dry

 

Prolonged dry weather,

as we call it in the trade,

set to hang about.

 

by Scooj