Tag: Haiku

New glasses

 

From one pair to three

there’s no need for a neck chain

thank goodness for that.

 

by Scooj

Signs

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Crocus spears emerge

snowdrops now in reverence

The land is waking.

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by Scooj

Twitter

 

Appropriation.

Beautiful winter birdsong

captured by the net.

 

by Scooj

 

Yaffle

 

Am I mistaken?

I think I heard the call of

a green woodpecker.

 

by Scooj

Wet walk

 

At my feet he lies

wet dog smell filling the air

I’ll light a nice fire.

 

by Scooj

Waterfalls

 

Relentless rain taps

rat tat on Velux windows,

slooshes from gutters.

 

by Scooj

 

Tusk

 

Brexit campaigners

there’s a special place in hell

for you says Donald.

 

by Scooj

 

Couldn’t help writing about this rather undiplomatic comment and tweet from Donald Tusk, President of the European Council, yesterday:

I’ve been wondering what that special place in hell looks like, for those who promoted , without even a sketch of a plan how to carry it out safely.

Undiplomatic it might be, but probably representative of huge numbers of British people who find ourselves in political meltdown and heading towards decades of uncertainty and economic/political isolation. To use a phrase coined by Theresa May, we will truly become ‘citizens of nowhere’, because the UK will be a hugely less potent and influential nation than it has been for the last 40 years.

The people he refers to are the likes of Boris Johnson, David Davis, Jacob Rees-Mogg and of course the odious Nigel Farage. These leaders of the Brexit campaign stirred up discontent in the country and blamed all our domestic problems on Europe, it was a disingenuous campaign and masked a far right nationalist agenda which had more to do with pride, selfishness, independence, market forces, suspicion, competition, hatred, than it did with being part of the European Union.

I despair. I am ashamed of (and confused by) the choice our country has made. I am worried for the opportunities of my children and their peers. I am embarrassed that we have become a global laughing-stock. I worry about when our own self-imposed austerity will ever end to see us through this mess.

What happened to compassion, partnership, collaboration, the greater good, fairness, balance, people before profit? (you’ll rarely hear such words from Brexit leaders).

David Cameron has divided our nation because he wanted to unite his party. I think there might be room for him in the special place in hell too.

Prohibition

 

Synchronicity

together wit and beauty

beholder sees all.

 

by Scooj

Sugar baby

 

A sum of three crowns

but sadly none the wiser

’70s decay.

 

by Scooj

Silence

 

City without cars

benefit of pitching snow

everything is calm.

 

by Scooj

 

  • Bristol rarely gets snow, so this event is noteworthy, it is also worth highlighting that Bristolians have their own word for ‘settling’ (of snow) which is ‘pitching’ so I have used it in this haiku. Walking to work was a pleasure this morning on two counts, firstly the sheer beauty of seeing the world through a different lens and secondly the almost complete absence of cars. It set me thinking how beautiful the world would be with fewer cars on the road, they are a convenient nuisance.