Bloody typical!
after months of dry weather
rain due for Upfest.
by Scooj grrrr.
Tag: Poetry
Office view
Here sit I each day
overlooking the treetops
dreaming of freedom.
by Scooj
This Haiku started off as something rather different, but I didn’t like it – I include it below just to demonstrate the transition of what I wanted to convey, but couldn’t in the first form.
It’s a privilege
to sit at canopy height
and observe the birds.
Car boot sale
Little shelter from
an intensifying sun;
moved heaps of crap though.
by Scooj
Downside summer
Scorched earth allotment
courgette plants and beans withered;
prolonged dry weather.
by Scooj
Blackberrying
Succulent berries
nature’s generous bounty;
purple stained fingers.
by Scooj
Ant day
A few days each year
queen ants emerge from their nests;
gull feeding frenzy.
by Scooj
Night pirates
In the night
they came with their swords
and stole dreams
in the night
buccaneers of my tired mind
left me with nothing.
by Scooj
Beautiful Demoiselle
Rising from the stream
graceful fluterer settles;
an angel in blue.
by Scooj
Blur
A miracle of
convergent evolution;
hummingbird hawk moth.
by Scooj
It’s coming home
Inconceivable
isn’t it that England might,
just might, bring it home?
by Scooj
Natural adventures 