Category: 1. Haiku

Ellipsis

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Much underrated

item of punctuation

what it does is this …

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by Scooj

Silver lining

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Dark clouds lingering

England put under the sword

Saka my hero

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by Scooj

Final(ly)

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This Italophile

makes no apologies for

cheering on England

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by Scooj

Infestation

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Moths in the dog food

hundreds and hundreds of them

culprits evicted

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by Scooj

Freedom

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Incarceration

ten day self-isolation

pass through the threshold

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by Scooj

The hope

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Three lions enter

warming to this England side

it begins again

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by Scooj

British summer

.

There is no pattern

unpredictability

the only constant

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by Scooj

Robbed

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Best years of their lives

denied by a cruel virus

there’ll be hell to pay

.

by Scooj

Contagion

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Delta variant

no respecter of vaccine

Mrs. Scooj succumbs

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by Scooj

Strewwelpeter

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Cautionary tales

like poor Little Suck-a-Thumb

frightening children

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by Scooj