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Failure
Thinks she's a failure
As a Wife and a Mother
A failure of all
Wednesday 30th December 2020 3:15 am
W.H.O.
Do you need someone?
On this World Mental Health Day
Does someone need you?
Friday 9th October 2020 8:54 pm
Underground (Part 28 to 30)
(NB. Three more haikus on the Underground)
28
Asleep on the seat
He only just wakes up
Before it leaves.
29
As the taxi beeps
Outside he tells himself this
Can’t keep happening
30
Guitar in his case
The busker offers the tramp
Some of his coffee.
Saturday 3rd October 2020 2:37 pm
Underground (Part 25 to 27)
NB. Three more haikus about the Underground
25
Northern train at stop
Pauses like it is watching
You walk your two dogs.
26
Getting hotter and
Hotter, it feels like the train
Is overheating too.
27
Pausing for breath
The guard wakes up the girl
For her ticket home.
Wednesday 30th September 2020 8:18 pm
Underground Part 16 to 21
NB. Six more Haikus in my sequence Underground
XVI
You smile after he
Hides his wedding ring then slips
getting off the train
XVII
September darkness
Makes the late running train feel
even much later
XVIII
He doesn’t wake him up
until he has missed his stop
smiling silently
XIX
the first train sprints out
infused with an energy
into the sunrise.
XX
...
Monday 14th September 2020 11:59 pm
Underground Part 13 to 15
** NB. Three more haiku about the Underground.
(More to come too) **
Underground XIII
You smile after he
Hides his wedding ring then slips
getting off the train
Underground XIV
September darkness
Makes the late running train feel
even much later
Underground XV
He doesn’t wake him up
until he has missed his stop
smiling silently
Wednesday 9th September 2020 11:17 pm
Underground Part 1 to 6
(I)
Out of tune busker
Pausing for a few moments
Opens up a beer.
(II)
Pausing for its breath
The train can’t look back turning
Away from the guard.
(III)
Getting off the train
You almost turn back round to
Get straight back on it.
(IV)
Stepping from the mist
You feel like you are stepping
From a dark film noir.
(V)
Pausing suddenly
you think briefly ...
Tuesday 18th August 2020 7:11 pm
Trapped - Haiku
I'm trapped in darkness
Searching for the light to leave
Will I ever find it?
Tuesday 11th August 2020 6:53 pm
The Lockdown Spring Renga Project
March - June 2020 :
During the early months of the UK lockdown, in response to the Covid-19 pandemic - I've been organising and running an online community writing project through various Facebook community boards, but in two different communities: Fakenham, in north Norfolk, where I live & work, and the Isles of Scilly, which I've known and loved for over twenty-five years. The two poems produ...
Thursday 9th July 2020 12:11 pm
We Never Suspected A Thing
We Never Suspected A Thing
Serial Killer
Feathers on the patio
Innocent soft eyes
Thursday 2nd July 2020 3:05 pm
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