Tag: Haiku

The one that got away

 

Decorations boxed

ready for hibernation

always one evades

 

by Scooj

 

  • It doesn’t seem to matter how thorough I am with clearing away the Christmas decorations and stuff, one item always seems to evade going into the loft. This year it was the cloth that we put out under the tree (in the washing basket). Does this happen to anyone else?

Il Tricolore

 

An arrangement of

three mini jelly babies

Italian flag

 

by Scooj

 

Three jelly babies, Bristol, January 2020
Three jelly babies, Bristol, January 2020

Battenburg

 

Harlequin sponge cake

wrapped in a marzipan coat

tea-time confection

 

by Scooj

Nose to the grindstone

 

It’s almost as if

there wasn’t a Christmas break

nose to the grindstone.

 

by Scooj

Bells and smells

 

High church christening

grand rituals aplenty

intoxication

 

by Scooj

Homonym 2. Relief

 

Out-standing wall art

hints at animal rescue

and safety within

 

by Scooj

 

  • I was out hunting for graffiti/streetart this lunchtime with the dog, and our ears pricked up when we heard dogs barking. The noise was coming from the other side of this wall and the kennels of the Bristol Animal Rescue Centre. Pennies dropped and the wonderful dogs on this wall made complete sense.

 

Boundary wall of the Bristol Animal Rescue Centre, Bristol, January 2020
Boundary wall of the Bristol Animal Rescue Centre, Bristol, January 2020

Homonym 1. Coaster

 

Here I lay my cup

and through the window I spy

a small trading ship.

 

by Scooj

  • A memory of many, many hours looking out of the window of my Grandparent’s house which was opposite Falmouth Harbour in Cornwall – there was always something going on in the Carrick Roads (the natural harbour area or ria (flooded river valley)).

Filling in the gaps

 

Barely an inch long

fragments millions of years old

telling a story

 

by Scooj

 

I spent a couple of hours looking for fossils at Bracklesham Bay last weekend and it was really tough going. I was lucky though and found these two sawfish rostral teeth from the eocene period – (quite a long time ago).

Sawfish rostral teeth fossils, Bracklesham Bay, January 2020
Sawfish rostral teeth fossils, Bracklesham Bay, January 2020

Winter Heliotrope

 

Looking for the sun

where there is none to be found

a winter beauty

 

by Scooj

 

 

Fixer

 

Shower door, loo seat

mirror, mirror on the wall

deserved cup of tea

 

by Scooj