Rough sleeper

.

I don’t want to smell

no one wants to be smelly;

have you got two pounds?

.

by Scooj

  • Part of a longer conversation with a man that I met this morning. Expletives removed.

Hum

 

Intoxicating

flowering shrub resonates

with a host of bees.

 

by Scooj

Sorrow

 

Classical music

reaches the heart of a man

a solemn tonic.

 

by Scooj

Father-in-law

.

I don’t know him well

Alzheimer’s got in the way

now he lies dying.

.

by Scooj

Prediction

 

May loses her job

UK remains in Europe

I can dream can’t I?

 

by Scooj

Evening walk

 

Air thick with wood smoke

hangs in the urban valley

catches in my throat.

 

by Scooj

Rock

.

Unstoppable change

when landscapes are unstable

we seek out a rock.

.

by Scooj

Rebirth

 

Lobbed over the hedge

laughed about then forgotten

a new life begins.

 

by Scooj

Pidgeon post

 

A little message

dropped on an unsuspecting

station passenger.

 

by Scooj