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Shedding leaves of gold
a silver birch undresses
Autumnal treasure.
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by Scooj
Tag: Haiku
More than twenty four
Static in traffic
my attention is drawn to
a bush filled with birds
more sparrows than I can count
clustered in a tiny space.
Wheel of death
The spinning circle
something is ‘not responding’
frustration sets in.
by Scooj
Earth has no borders
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The world is dying
while nationalism thrives
what does this tell us?
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by Scooj
Walk in the rain
No more delaying
we’ll do a short one today
and rein in the walk.
by Scooj
Smells of Summer
In these dismal days
of central heating, my thoughts
turn to the summer.
by Scooj
Love
The Beatles said that
the love you take is equal
to the love you make
a sentiment I favour
but wonder if it is true.
by Scooj
Statue
Queen Victoria
ghostly white, still, stony gaze
commands her subjects.
by Scooj
On noticing that the statue of Queen Victoria on the edge of College Green in Bristol has been cleaned up, but the dirt that gave the statue details some relief, has gone and she now resembles a ghost. Happy Halloween.
Curiouser and curiouser
As if by magic
a green rabbit emerges
my ears and whiskers!
by Scooj
Heavy hand
Writing on the wall
says ‘nobody wins the war’;
graffiti plays out.
by Scooj
The words were scrawled up on a wall of The Bearpit, walls which Bristol City Council keep on painting only to be tagged moments later. The City Council in their zeal to tidy up The Bearpit (for whatever reason) are not bringing people with them. Their ‘ban it’ mentality is leading to a degradation of a space that only two years ago was vibrant, colourful and tidy. In trying to tackle problems such as addiction and violence and homelessness and graffiti and skateboarding, the clampdown is using the ‘clean up’ of The Bearpit as a deflection of its own failings and those of the Government in these years of austerity, and is wrongly conflating these issues.
Homeless people are not necessarily addicts. Addicts are not necessarily graffiti artists. Graffiti artists are not necessarily skateboarders. Skateboarders are not necessarily violent. Violence is not necessarily practiced by homeless people. And so on…
Work with the people who use this space.
Nobody wins the war.
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