Baked

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baking, cakes, Christmas cake, haiku, poetry, season

First Christmas cake baked
Equinox marks season’s start
Only five to go

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Alive!

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alive, haiku, poetry, rain, weather, wind

On walking in the rain

Wild, windy weather
Torrential rain batters woods
Exhilarating!

Riddled

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art, Gallery, haiku, poetry, sunflowers, Van Gogh, woodworm

On noticing a small, pleasing detail

Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’
valued in multi millions
woodworm riddled frame

Art

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art, haiku, holiday, jealousy, National Gallery, Othello, poetry, Shakespear, Van Gogh

On spending three days in London

Night at theatre
Shakespeare’s Globe, Othello
Tension one can chew

Such vibrant beauty
The National Gallery
Vincent’s sunflowers

Were you there?

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dreams, flowers, haiku, memory, poetry, sunflower

Tried to remember
A dream of a sunflower
Were you with me there?

Memories

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breath, haiku, memories, poetry poem, winter

Her breath in white clouds
He remembered moist, blue eyes
They never shared names

Killed

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death, hunters, pathos, pheasants, poetry, sadness, shooting, tanka

On the welsh roadsides
windblown feathers of pheasants
mown down by traffic
Hunters robbed of their victims
Unconscionable pathos

Words!

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Dylan Thomas, haiku, passion, poetry, wonder, words

On reading Dylan Thomas

‘Intoxicated’
Sometimes, odd words just grab me
Fire in the blood!

Simple

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beech, fern, haiku, nature, poetry, rain

A simple green fern
under a copper beech hedge
soft rain completes scene

Time

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coffee, croissant, enjoyment, haiku, morning, philosophy, poetry, time

On starting the day

An almond croissant
and a double espresso
with time to enjoy