Sweet

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anger, animals, cats, haiku, nature, pets, poetry

On overhearing an argument

embattled lovers
spitting bundles of fury
sweet little puss cats

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Cruise

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birds, canoes, cool, haiku, kids, nature, poetry, river, swans

On deciding to be cool …

screams from the river
city kids enjoy canoes
swans choose to cruise by

Caught!

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birds, blackbirds, gooseberries, haiku, nature, ornithology, poem

There, I rest my case,
a fledgling caught in the act
could be a jailbird!

(Poor image, taken through window)

Better

sweetness

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birds, blackbirds, garden, gardening, gooseberries, haiku, nature, poetry

On moving on from blackberries

ripe, red gooseberries
should you doubt their crisp sweetness
blackbirds will confirm

Lunch

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birds, deckchair, haiku, nature, poetry, summer

sunny afternoon
good book, cool drink and deckchair
magpies eye my lunch

That time

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fishing, haiku, Pimms, poetry, summer, tennis, Wimbledon

Wimbledon fortnight
Grunts, groans and gallons of Pimms
Time to go fishing

Trust

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Billy Connolly, humor, humour, quote, trust

Today, no haiku. For no relevant reason I thought I’d share a quote by the great Billy Connolly;

‘Never trust a man who, finding himself alone
in a room with a tea cosy, doesn’t try it on.’

‘OK’

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haiku, humour, poem, self

ticket inspector
full of earnest importance
declares me, ‘OK.’

Fun

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children, gulls, haiku, ice cream, nature, poetry

where the pale gull soars
above a wild, grey ocean
children lick ice cream

Old friends

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friends, haiku, poetry, reunion

after thirty years
a reunion tomorrow
so, what could go wrong?