Category: 1. Haiku

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

Swindon

 

If anyone can

tell me what the hell’s going

on here, please could they

 

by Scooj

 

Making waves

 

Autumn waves crash on

tiled floors, a terrarium

for urban living

 

by Scooj

Piper

 

Penny whistle man

playing for a few coppers

and humanity

 

by Scooj

S.O.S.

 

Secretary of

State for the environment,

I don’t believe you.

 

by Scooj

Commentary on a speech made by Elizabeth Truss on 14 October, entitled Open Environment.

6.15pm

 

Dusk comes early now

and bats flutter, fattening

for Winter slumber.

 

by Scooj

Bondage

 

I sit in front of

my screen, deprived of freedom;

I’ll let my mind walk

 

by Scooj