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

Nemesis

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children, humor, humour

On witnessing the destruction of an innocent
and how we smiled, and cried

‘Oh yes, she loves her Daddy, she’s her Daddy’s girl.’
No response from the big blues eyes.
From her high chair at the head of the table, little Charlotte surveyed her smiling, adoring family and Christmas gathered friends.
Father sat, wrapped in a smile of parental innocence. Some of us saw it coming.
‘Tell Daddy you’re his little girl, sweetheart.’
The silence stretched.
Of course.
‘No’

Dictatorship

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adult, child, children, control, dictatorship, haiku, parenting, poem, poetry

On hearing a conflict

‘Don’t talk back to me!’

‘Now I’m not allowed to think!’

‘Just do as I say’

Silence

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bus, children, haiku, poetry, school.street, silence

Morning, ten past eight
school bus harvests  the children
suddenly, silence

update

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children, computers, eggs, grandmothers, phrase, sayings

Perhaps the phrase
‘teaching grandmother to suck eggs’
needs updating
‘teaching grandchildren to use computers’
is much more relevant
I mean
how many grandmother’s now suck eggs
or would know why?

dreamer

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children, dreams, granddaughtet, haiku, imagination, kettledrum, poem, poetry

(on listening to chatter)

My granddaughter shares
the kettledrum of her dreams
Imagination!

wet

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birds, children, fun, haiku, july, mud, rain, seasons, swalows

first day of July
swallows seem fed up with rain
kids enjoy the mud

Oh!

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adults, children, haiku, maturity, parents, self, time

 

that magic moment
when your well grown up children
first see who you are

bus

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children, haiku, laughter, school bus

I can hear laughter
children lark at the roadside
the school bus arrives

win

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ants, children, gain, haiku, loss, nature

crushed on the footpath
iced bun dropped by distraught child
bonanza for ants