Baked

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baking, cakes, Christmas cake, haiku, poetry, season

First Christmas cake baked
Equinox marks season’s start
Only five to go

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Alive!

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alive, haiku, poetry, rain, weather, wind

On walking in the rain

Wild, windy weather
Torrential rain batters woods
Exhilarating!

Riddled

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art, Gallery, haiku, poetry, sunflowers, Van Gogh, woodworm

On noticing a small, pleasing detail

Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’
valued in multi millions
woodworm riddled frame

Art

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art, haiku, holiday, jealousy, National Gallery, Othello, poetry, Shakespear, Van Gogh

On spending three days in London

Night at theatre
Shakespeare’s Globe, Othello
Tension one can chew

Such vibrant beauty
The National Gallery
Vincent’s sunflowers

Were you there?

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dreams, flowers, haiku, memory, poetry, sunflower

Tried to remember
A dream of a sunflower
Were you with me there?

Memories

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breath, haiku, memories, poetry poem, winter

Her breath in white clouds
He remembered moist, blue eyes
They never shared names

Shadow time

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grounded, haiku, meditation, morning, poetry, shadow, sun, tai chi

 

On my garage wall
enjoying the morning sun
my shadow’s Tai Chi

 

Words!

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Dylan Thomas, haiku, passion, poetry, wonder, words

On reading Dylan Thomas

‘Intoxicated’
Sometimes, odd words just grab me
Fire in the blood!

Woe

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author, haiku, poem, poetry, sadness, woe

On listening to a tale of woe

his fair, faded dreams
such great, crumpled ambition
unpublished author

Simple

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beech, fern, haiku, nature, poetry, rain

A simple green fern
under a copper beech hedge
soft rain completes scene