The Haberdashery of Haiku
... and occasional Tanka. Started after a competition on the unbound.co.uk blog (see#1 and #2).
Thursday 30 April 2020
#151
I hate this *breathe* room
The floor is lined with my guts
It stinks of my rot
Wednesday 29 April 2020
#150
Light replaces dark
When visiting Our Lady,
She shows me the way.
Tuesday 28 April 2020
#149
Peace reigns inside me
When visiting Our Lady,
She takes my conflict.
Monday 27 April 2020
#148
Light reigns inside me
When visiting Our Lady,
She out takes the dark.
Sunday 26 April 2020
#147
A strange fulfillment
When visiting Our Lady,
Bathed in her light.
Saturday 25 April 2020
#146
Sleepwalk to my death
This makes my mind so fuzzy
That I cannot see
Friday 24 April 2020
#145
I'm invisible
I don't matter to them now
My use has been spent
Thursday 23 April 2020
#144
i am here you know
i may have separated
off but i am here
Wednesday 22 April 2020
#143
Allow everyone
Close enough to kill you: The
Way of the dodo.
Tuesday 21 April 2020
#142
All of the tangents,
All the asides in the world.
In the staff meeting.
Monday 20 April 2020
#141
When it gets going,
Turns out we really question.
In the staff meeting.
Sunday 19 April 2020
#140
Thrown out to the floor,
It becomes a yawning void.
In the staff meeting.
Saturday 18 April 2020
#139
Leaking palms leaving
Pools all over the table.
In the staff meeting.
Thursday 16 April 2020
#138
Sat in a square shape,
Listening for our tidbits.
In the staff meeting.
Wednesday 15 April 2020
#137
Susan Sorcery:
A misread name that would be
Much better surely.
Tuesday 14 April 2020
#136
We all stay at home,
Breaking contact chains to fight
Coronavirus.
Monday 13 April 2020
#135
I ripped off my face -
It gave far too much away.
Now there is no sense.
Sunday 12 April 2020
#134
An active bandstand
Can be an eventful place.
Comings and goings.
Saturday 11 April 2020
#133
The start and end of
An awkward fumbling embrace.
In the park bandstand.
Friday 10 April 2020
#132
The start and end of
Our teenage intimacies.
In the park bandstand.
Thursday 9 April 2020
#131
We all stay at home,
Breaking contact chains to fight
Coronavirus.
Wednesday 8 April 2020
#130
Two metres apart,
Every person brings distress.
Coronavirus.
Tuesday 7 April 2020
#129
I met my shadow;
We spoke about days gone by.
Coronavirus.
Idea came via a colleague via a
Union Chapel
Newsletter
which included a poem by
Kitty O'Meara
-
not
Kathleen O'Meara
Monday 6 April 2020
#128
Bandstand time travel.
The right passage of notes and
Play anywhere-time.
Sunday 5 April 2020
#127
A smooth rich flow or
Filled throughout with sweet honey.
Imagine either.
Saturday 4 April 2020
#126
Grey sky, concrete, asphalt,
Muddy grass, sepia tones.
Some days are just grim.
Friday 3 April 2020
#125
I fell right through time,
To the other side of me.
I knew so much then.
Thursday 2 April 2020
#124
I cannot ask for,
I’ve never had the questions.
How dark the cave is!
Wednesday 1 April 2020
#123
I’m a beautiful,
One of many chosen few.
My bag tells me so.
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