Forgotten

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bookshop, bookstore, forgotten, haiku, Keats, life, love, poem, poet, poetry

On spending time in a shadowed bookshop

Old copy of Keats
Pencilled on the dust jacket
‘Do not forget me’

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Glory

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grandchildren, haiku, happiness, humour, laughter, life, poem, smiles

Laughter fills the air
A Glory of grandchildren
Find myself smiling

Spirits

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birds, haiku, migration, nature, poem, spirits, summer, swallows, weather, wildlife

Seen with my own eyes,
we have swallows, fine people.
Spirits of Summer.

soon

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beauty, brief, ephemeral, flowers, haiku, magnolia, poetry

On seeing pink petals fall

 
pale magnolia
an ephemeral affair
beauty so soon lost

Roar

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haiku, lawnmowers, nature, ornithology, poetry, seasons, sky, spring, sunshine, weather

Beautiful Spring day
Brilliant blue sky and birdsong
Roar of lawnmowers

Whim

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haiku, languid, poetry, whim

On having an odd moment …

Today, on a whim
No particular reason
Softly say, ‘languid.’

There, doesn’t that feel better?

Outbreak

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blooms, blossom, cherry blossom, haiku, poetry, summer

Cherry trees blossom
Blooming sure sign of summer
Outbreak of haiku

Optimist

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birds, haiku, humour, internet, nature, poetry, telephone, woodpecker

Such optimism
Woodpecker, telephone pole
That’s my internet!

Greens

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choice, customers, haiku, plastic, poem, poetry, pollution, shops

A wall of plastic
all in the name of profit
the customers’ choice

Ooze

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cool, haiku, humour, ink well, poetry, words

Sometimes words grab you
Like,’ink well’, how cool is that?
A well, oozing ink!