Category: 1. Haiku

The Silence of the Pumpkin

 

Slice open your head

scramble and scoop out your brain

then coerce a smile.

 

by Scooj

Visit The Poet Rummager to read and join in the Monster Masquerade

Redland Grove Park

 

A golden tide sweeps

in and children kick about

having fun; then rest.

 

by Scooj

Tide-line

 

At its highest point

the sea deposits its gifts

in long rows to dry

 

by Scooj

Afternoon snooze

 

A stolen moment

fourty winks only, I say,

sweet deliciousness

 

by Scooj

Long day

Pancakes, cinema,

weekly shopping, watch the match,

tacos and haiku

 

by Scooj

Love Earth

 

That moment when you

rise above the clouds and the

wonder is revealed

 

by Scooj

Polly Higgins

 

Single-handedly

determined to make others

sit up and listen

 

by Scooj

 

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Butterfly paper napkin

 

Versatility

embodied; a plate for cake

or pretty nose wipe

 

by Scooj

Missing since September 29

 

A wife and three girls

desperate for any news;

Daddy please come home

 

by Scooj

 

prompted by small notices strapped to lamp posts around Bristol centre this morning.

War memorial

 

So many left to

fight and gave their lives in haste;

now the grass grows green

 

by Scooj