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My poor failing eyes
so slow to settle on the
slender blue beauty
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by Scooj
Common blue damselfly (Enallagma cyathigerum)
Tag: Haiku
Ramada nights
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Hotel car park sounds
distant hum of motorway
car music booming
.
by Scooj
Leeds
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My ancestral home
a place where spelling my name
isn’t a problem
.
by Scooj
- My surname is from West Yorkshire, and it is such a refreshing pleasure not to have to spell it out when checking in to hotels, or confirming restaurant bookings etc. It is not a common name in the south.
Raiders
.
Damn their pigeon eyes
carrot tops decimated
strawberries goners
.
by Scooj
What to write
.
A fork in the road
write a nature haiku or
political rant
.
by Scooj
Legacy
.
I’ve an olive tree
a gift from my dead father
I’ll pass it on too
.
by Scooj
Arsenal 1 – Barcelona 0
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Ladies’ silverware
new champions of Europe
come on you gunners
.
by Scooj
Into the swing of it
.
Another party
the gift that keeps on giving
Ma’s 91st year
.
by Scooj
- I ask ya… how many parties does an old lady need?
Lemmings that pivot
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Winds of change blowing
charter for sycophancy
to be seen to do
.
by Scooj
- I have been around the block a few times in my job as a public servant and civil servant, and observed the ‘change lust’ that occupies Ministers, their Special Advisers and organisational seniors. It is a sight to see, where ‘yes men and women’ unquestioningly make change, because ‘change is the new norm’, and who would dare challenge or suggest alternatives.
- All Governments and Government Departments do it. It causes disruption, but the surge in activity looks like something is being done, and ‘that’s what the voters want to see’. What the voters don’t see are the inefficiencies of change, the costs of change, and that top-down change rarely results in the outcomes hoped for, but hey ‘at least we were doing something’.
- I’m an old cynic. It is my job to question and to call out what I think is wrong. I am no pragmatist or ‘human resource counter’, I am a brilliant employee who has to go through and try to survive another huge change, but survive I will. And all the others who are caught up in this flurry of excitement will move on and take their disruption with them.
Perfect day
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It is the best day
when swifts announce their return
invisible cries
.
by Scooj
Natural adventures 