Category: 1. Haiku

VW

 

It’s the deceit that

really galls; so arrogant

you forgot what counts.

 

by a very angry Scooj

Interweb

 

It must be Autumn,

there’s no need to step outside,

Google told me so.

 

by Scooj

Bamboozled

 

Searching for sunlight

running roots crack through asphalt;

irrepressible.

 

by Scooj

Trenches

 

A scrawled note to loved

ones before the whistle blows

then over the top.

 

by Scooj

Strawberry Line

 

Father and daughter

on a cool September day

cycling together.

 

by Scooj

Web

 

To be trapped is to

be filled with a fear so great

that all fight subsides.

 

by Scooj

But it was a nightmare

 

It was not a bad

dream; our night time visitor

dropped ‘Bun’ in the loo.

 

by Scooj

School drag

A school-bound child screams

‘take me home mummy please’; it

is too much to bear.

by Scooj

Tree rat

 

Autumn harvester

too much maligned grey cousin

of Potter’s Nutkin.

 

by Scooj

Fifteen years

 

The Summer days of

our life together will not

be dampened by rain.

 

by Scooj