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haiku

Haiku - by Pauline Prior-Pitt

{ Poem }

obituaries
/
/ for people younger than you
/
/ in the daily news
/ …

Mistaking the season - by Yosa Buson

{ Poem }

Mistaking the season
the dandelion is blooming
in the frost on the road

A Tight-Rope Act - by Gael Turnbull

{ Poem }

Holding our breath
/ in apprehension,
/ we grasp life.
/ …

‘suddenly spring…’ - by Alan Spence

{ Poem }

suddenly spring –
/ my heart and the river,
/ full to bursting
/ …

Haiku - by Ian McFadyen

{ Poem }

SUMMER-TIME…
/ Living is easy:
/ wide-horned shaggy cows, rust-red,
/ waist-deep in thick sedge.
/
/ DIPPER.
/ white tux, black dj,
/ takes the ripples of applause,
/ all the stones a…

North Coast Cherries - by George Bruce

{ Poem }

for Elizabeth, my wife
/ three linked haikus
/
/ All around salt in the wind
/ a mile from the sea
/ salt on the tongue
/
/ Against the wall…

from A hyakuin renga in summer - by Alec Finlay

{ Poem }

shrivelled little figs
/ that never made it
/ to the table
/
/ swirling a late cup of milky tea
/ what she’d like…

Football Haiku! - by Creative Writing Group Dean Park Primary School

{ Poem }

chip
/ pokes
/ for posts
/
/ all
/ my
/ saturdays
/
/ o
/ ya
/ beauty
/
/ he shoots
/ she
/ scores
/
/ stretch
/ the
/ net!
/
/ my
/ veryown
/ goal
/
/ half
/ time
/ donut
/
/ total
/ red
/ tackle
/
/ my…

it was this big! - by Alan Spence

{ Poem }

it was this big!
/ the child tells her mother,
/ on the phone…

Ham Voe Haiku - by Alistair Peebles

{ Poem }

an extract
/
/ Hamnafield and me
/ this morning: my pluming breath,
/ its scribbles of scree.
/
/ Among chains and rope,
/ lashed here all winter: Swallow,
/ Lively, Brighter Hope.
/
/ Mandolin,…

Dream Calendar - by Raymond Friel

{ Poem }

/ Red neon burns
/ on brickwork: Tyres & Exhausts.
/
/ As if we didn’t know.
/
/ The hunt’s livener
/ outside the Tontine.
/
/ A trail of port in the…

Two haiku - by Alan Spence

{ Poem }

that daft dog
/ chasing the train
/ then letting it go
/
/
/
/ dumb bumblebee
/ bumps the windowpane
/ again again again…

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