Condemned

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animals, cats, condemnation, feline, haiku, humour, pets, poem, poetry

The stare says it all
Such dire condemnation
Cat at empty bowl

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Sting in the tale

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baking, haiku, humour, insects, marmalade, pun, wasps, whiskey

Baking Dundee cake
Wasps chase whiskey marmalade
So what can go wrong?

theft!

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books, felony, haiku, humour, poetry, read, reading, seduction, theft

felonious books
seduce my curious mind
and steal all my time

Awake

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dreaming, haiku, humour, insomnia, night, poem, sleep

This late, Thursday night
I should be dreaming delights
Not tapping keyboard

Waiting

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cat, humour, mystery, short, story

(yesterday, tea time)

At the end of the drive the cat had positioned himself at the side of the road looking east, then west then east again, as if expecting the arrival of a favourite cousin or an ice-cream van.

(saw me watching, walked away)

Gig

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Bond, gig, haku, humour, lunar, moonlight, Moonracker, pun, rockers

(In response to a challenge, you know who you are  … with apologies)

In Lunar’s pale glow
leather clad heroes gather
Moon Rockers night gig

Dragon

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beach, coast path, dragons, haiku, holidays, humour, sunshine, wales

a stoney Welsh beach
basking in the May sunshine
see, there be dragons

sublime 2

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cello, du pré, haiku, humour, life, music

(On entering a hedonistic streak)

Jacqueline du Pré
a bottle of decent red
and time to enjoy

 

Poppy

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easter eggs, flower, haiku, humour, papaver somniferum, poem, Poppy, rain, raindrops

Bursting with colour
Papaver somniferum
Furry Easter egg

memory

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haiku, humour, memory, Mom, Mum, pancake day, pancakes

popped up from the past
a pancake day memory
Mum gets the burnt one