Red

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Australia, climate, haiku, nature, poetry, weather

On great sorrow

red skies bring dark days
such heartbreaking images
Australia burns

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

Down under

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Australia, evolution, haiku, insects, nature, poetry

Different insects

Some weird and wonderful

Same survival wars

travelling

Tags

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

Tags

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

Tags

Australia, desert, haiku, rain, sand, weather

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