That time

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fishing, haiku, Pimms, poetry, summer, tennis, Wimbledon

Wimbledon fortnight
Grunts, groans and gallons of Pimms
Time to go fishing

Holidays

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fishing, friends, grandchildren, haiku, holidays, playing, poem, summer

On feeling like Billy No Mates

Friends can’t go fishing
all caring for grandchildren
summer holidays?

time

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death, fishing, haiku, life, living, mortality, poetry, winds

On reviewing the year

This year I have lost
four friends to the winds of time
I’m going fishing

 

times

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fishing, haiku, loss, time, times

Thinking we had time
We planned a day fishing
Sometime, then, no times.

 

Going fishing

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fishing, fly fishing, haiku, hobby, sport, trout

Enjoying the thought 

Tomorrow I go fishing

Trout, this time, play fair

fisher birds

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angling, birds, cormorants, fish, fishing, haiku, nature, philosophy, wildlife

today, went fishing
watching cormorants catch fish
ah well, birds well fed

tempting bait – haiku

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angling, fish, fishing, season, tackle

new tackle glitters
catalogue of temptation
to catch fishermen

all that glitters – haiku

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angling, fishing, fly fishing, game fishing, lures, trout, trout fishing

feather and glitter
poor imitation of fly
will trout be hoodwinked