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Underground (Part 28 to 30)
(NB. Three more haikus on the Underground)
28
Asleep on the seat
He only just wakes up
Before it leaves.
29
As the taxi beeps
Outside he tells himself this
Can’t keep happening
30
Guitar in his case
The busker offers the tramp
Some of his coffee.
Saturday 3rd October 2020 2:37 pm
Underground Part 13 to 15
** NB. Three more haiku about the Underground.
(More to come too) **
Underground XIII
You smile after he
Hides his wedding ring then slips
getting off the train
Underground XIV
September darkness
Makes the late running train feel
even much later
Underground XV
He doesn’t wake him up
until he has missed his stop
smiling silently
Wednesday 9th September 2020 11:17 pm
Haiku Homework (Grade 1)
Haiku Homework (grade 1)
Got haiku fever
WOLer craze firing me up
Searching for deep thoughts
Must be 5-7-5
Learnt at College of Haiku
Not complete dumbo
Told my next step is
Present words of deep wisdom
Mat sat under cat
Despite passing bottom of class
you show budding promise.
(Principal - College of Haiku)
Don Matthews June 2019
...Thursday 29th August 2019 9:32 am
The First Night We Met
You watched from behind
As I swayed to the music
The first night we met
No network coverage
To cover and color time
The first night we met
No calls to remind
Us that we’re not wild and free
The first night we met
You called me “beauty”
While I saw beauty in you
The first night we met
Nineteen-twenties jazz
Silent phones, no texts, and you
...Monday 25th March 2019 5:40 pm
(4) 5-7-5 Haikus
Caught in these struggles
Like water finding its way
We will endeavor
Chasing his father
Walking within his footsteps
He lives in shadows
Resonating beauty
Walking on imported air
Formidably cool
Gracefully they move
Like Elephants swimming free
Above earth’s trappings
Saturday 27th January 2018 9:39 am
Menage A Trois
Menage A Trois
The creeping half-light
casts unnatural shadows
on a cooling path.
Silver sister moon
bites down hard on the sky king,
silencing bird song.
This, being England,
she does beneath a cloud veil
of shy modesty.
Unbelievers still
raise their eyes to the heavens
in acts of worship.
Magic or science -
or just something poetic
on a spring morning?
When the sun re...
Friday 20th March 2015 11:20 am
Keats
He put into words What cannot be put in words. What a poet he was.
Sunday 15th September 2013 9:44 pm
9/11
who could have known it?
terrorists taking no stock
would trade in futures
who could have known it?
those towers were autumns bridge
tears coming to fall
A R
E S
T T ...
Wednesday 5th October 2011 4:01 pm
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