Australia Day

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Australia, celebration, haiku, poetry, shiraz, wine

Spent the day afloat

Sunshine, sail and fine red wine

Sealegs desert me

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Down under

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Australia, evolution, haiku, insects, nature, poetry

Different insects

Some weird and wonderful

Same survival wars

travelling

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Australia, haiku, holiday, poetry, rucksack, travel

trusty rucksack packed
desert boots patched, shorts dusted
southern hemisphere

new love

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Australia, drinking, humour, poem, poetry, relationships, shiraz, tanka, wine

(tragic tanka)

I’m with my new love
an Australian shiraz
we get on so well
but it may not last for long
she has that empty feeling

Take flight!

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airline, Australia, flight, flying, haiku, holiday, plane, poem, poetry, travel

Searching for a flight
Best deal to Australia
Anticipation!

subtle moon

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Australia, desert, haiku, moon, southern hemisphere

over red desert
a pale and upside down moon
provides subtleness

chorus

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Australia, birds, cello, eucalyptus, haiku, holiday, J S Bach, kookaburra, music, Yo Yo Ma

under eucalyp
Yo Yo Ma, Bach cello suite
kookaburra trills

cool

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Australia, beer, cold, eucalyptus, haiku, heat, memory, summer, winter

a glass of cold beer
under eucalyptus tree
winter’s memory

desert rain

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Australia, desert, haiku, rain, sand, weather

sudden, cool rain fall
sends up puffs of dry, red soil
short desert respite

holiday

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Australia, beaches, haiku, seduction, summer, sunshie, weather, winter

away from winter
visiting Australia
sunshine seduces