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’

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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

sanctuary

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boating lake, children, ducks, fun, haiku, play, toddlers

pursued by toddlers
ducks seek safety of boat lake
some ruffled feathers

 

Christmas gales

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children, christmas, gales, haiku, weather, wing

wind and rain argue
gales battering at christmas
children still smiling