ache

20 Saturday Jul 2019

Posted by Bill Bisgood in Haiku, people, Poetry, Short Stories

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haiku, life, loss, people, poetry, relationships, sadness

On observing a sadness

With the ache of memory
she suffered his weight
the insufferable boredom
the physical presence
she had not carried it well
neither her heart
nor her back
remained unbowed

Vibrant

04 Tuesday Jun 2019

Posted by Bill Bisgood in ., Haiku, Poetry, Thoughts

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chrysanthemums, death, friend, haiku, life, memories, poem, poetry, sadness

On visiting an old friend

mute, grey marble vase
faded red chrysanthemum
beech leaves, so vibrant

Cradle

28 Thursday Mar 2019

Posted by Bill Bisgood in .

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baby, doorway, empathy, haiku, life, people, poem, sadness

once somebody’s child
now lives, dross, in a doorway
cradle has fallen

Killed

08 Saturday Sep 2018

Posted by Bill Bisgood in ., nature, poem, Poetry, Tanka, Thoughts

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death, hunters, pathos, pheasants, poetry, sadness, shooting, tanka

On the welsh roadsides
windblown feathers of pheasants
mown down by traffic
Hunters robbed of their victims
Unconscionable pathos

Woe

03 Monday Sep 2018

Posted by Bill Bisgood in ., Haiku, humour, Poetry

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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unpublished author

Feline

29 Sunday Jul 2018

Posted by Bill Bisgood in ., poem, Poetry, Thoughts

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cats, feline, friendship, philanthropy, pity, poetry, sadness

Neighbours cat is thin, gaunt in fact.
He moves stiffly through his silent world
intent on getting to his next comfortable spot
wearing a ‘Please don’t feed me’ collar
to deter philanthropists, like me
who are tempted to overlook his kidney problems.
I dread that approaching day
when he is taken for the final
vets visit.
Please Fate, let him have at least
this one last, contented summer
a fine feline in the warm sun