Plot

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Haiku, plots, poem, Poetry, story, writers

the storyteller
busy plotting his dream’s course
avoiding straight lines

draught

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nature, ode, poem, Poetry, wasp

a wasp hovers
close to my right ear
I feel draught from his wings
don’t move, keep reading, he lands

Home

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holiday, humor, humour, Llanelli, Short Stories, socks, travelling, wales

Last leg of a trip from Western Australia to West Wales. Rucksack and battered sun hat though it was February, on a train lurching its way through Llanelli.
‘Excuse me but I’ve gorw say,’ the only other traveller, she sat across the aisle, ‘I’ve gorw say your socks, your socks are really cool.’
I knew I was home.

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Then

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haiku, hugs, lonely, people, poem, poetry

On times gone by

there were, in those days
people who invited hugs
strangers shook hands, smiled

Lost

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haiku, humour, night, poem, poetry, solstice, spirits, weather, wind

On a very short ghost story …

as on a chalkboard
night wind fingers the windows
lost solstice spirits

ache

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haiku, life, loss, people, poetry, relationships, sadness

On observing a sadness

With the ache of memory
she suffered his weight
the insufferable boredom
the physical presence
she had not carried it well
neither her heart
nor her back
remained unbowed

Lunch

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birds, deckchair, haiku, nature, poetry, summer

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

Times

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reading, thoughts, time, woe

A note:
Somewhat disconcertingly, I have just looked to the top
left corner of my book in order to check the time, woe is me!

‘OK’

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haiku, humour, poem, self

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

Gone

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fiction, haiku, life, taxi

On a little fiction, fill in the blanks.

He thought he knew her
Sunlight through an open door
Retreating taxi