empty

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granddaughter, haiku, life, loss, love, poetry, sadness

baby granddaughter
visit ends, waves and kisses
such an empty space

affair

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affair, haiku, love, poem, poetry, relationship, words

be they friend or foe
that relationship with words
poet’s love affair

New

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child, grandchild, haiku, life, love, poem, poetry, welcome

New grandchild is due
try to write a welcome poem
oh, the excitment!

Eternal

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eternity, haiku, life, love, passion, photography, poem, statue, window

on the window sill
a small statue of lovers
eternal embrace

Forgotten

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bookshop, bookstore, forgotten, haiku, Keats, life, love, poem, poet, poetry

On spending time in a shadowed bookshop

Old copy of Keats
Pencilled on the dust jacket
‘Do not forget me’

Romance

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flying, haiku, jet lag, life, love, poem, romance, Valentine's Day

On being jet lagged

Spent Valentine’s Day

Flying home from distant Oz

Romance somewhat lost

reaching out

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compassion, haiku, hate, hatred, kindness, love, poetry, sadness

On seeing an act of kindness

’tis said that kindness
is best bestowed on haters,
on the bleakest souls

Hold

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haiku, hugs, London, love, Manchester, peace, surrender, terror

for London

Wage relentless peace
Take up arms, hug someone, now
Never surrender

Riposte

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Britain, courage, death, England, haiku, life, love, Manchester, poetry, terrorism, UK

Showing their courage
What is Manchester’s riposte?
Poetry and Love

hold tight

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answers, haiku, hatred, horrors, love, Manchester, people, terror

amidst such horrors
do not give in to hatred
reach out and hold tight