Tag: Haiku

Die Fledermaus

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My heart uplifted

watching tiny bats flap by

as day becomes night.

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by Scooj

Row

 

Thirteen years ago

those halcyon days we had

calm before the storm.

 

by Scooj

  • From Wikipedia:

From Latin Alcyone, daughter of Aeolus and wife of Ceyx. When her husband died in a shipwreck, Alcyone threw herself into the sea whereupon the gods transformed them both into halcyon birds (kingfishers). When Alcyone made her nest on the beach, waves threatened to destroy it. Aeolus restrained his winds and kept them calm during seven days in each year, so she could lay her eggs. These became known as the “halcyon days,” when storms do not occur. Today, the term is used to denote a past period that is being remembered for being happy and/or successful.

May be not

.

I’ve no sympathy

TM a useless PM;

divided nation.

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by Scooj

Out of breath

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Heart rate is slowing

a mad dash to platform 9

I made it on time.

Well I needn’t have bothered

I don’t live in Switzerland.

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by Scooj

School swimming lessons remembered

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That little schoolboy

petrified and insecure;

a bully teacher.

Butterflies in his tummy

and mental paralysis.

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by Scooj

Downward

 

Precariously

pigeon pair shuffle slipping

roof ridge tile challenge.

 

by Scooj

Greta

 

A fitting tribute

to the girl who changed the world

a work in progress.

 

by Scooj

Play

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While the cats are out

two hours with a can in hand

I squeak with delight

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by Scooj

  • On to letter D tonight.

Aphids

 

Tiniest fairies

dance in the evening sun

lime green destroyers.

 

by Scooj