Tag: 1. Haiku

Tenerife

.

Island cast adrift

from Africa’s desert shore;

volcanic mountain.

.

by Scooj

Airport time

.

Tenerife awaits;

a mixture of excitement

and anxiety. 

.

by Scooj

Warm

 

Warm still greenhouse air

tinged with the delicious smell

of tomato leaves.

 

by Scooj

Bad world

 

A massacre of

innocents. Difficult to

explain to a child.

 

by Scooj

Birdsong

 

Sweetest pair of wrens

disproportionate voices

lightening my heart.

 

by Scooj

Car boot sale

.

Note to self…Hornby 

trains worth so much more than I

was led to believe. 

.

by Scooj

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. 

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by Scooj