#770

the ashes of the 

burned-out city want to be

soil not soil

#769

ghosts of christmas past

i welcome you to my home

beloved lost welcome

#768

my past before me

pointing with accusation

a ghost i thought gone

#25

ghosts ghosts ghosts ghosts ghosts

ghosts ghosts ghosts ghosts ghosts ghosts ghosts

so hard to repeat

and looking at the words now

do they look strange to you too?

#767

ghosts before Christmas 

as I remember my past

haunting nostalgia

#766

Christmas ghosts abound

this night the veil weakens so

hold tight til morning

#765

fireside Christmas,

book in hand, crackling sounds,

ghosts in the chimney.

#764

crammed on the back seat

i thought more would get off there

like this all the way

#763

i saw a mem’ry

of croissant; a ghost croissant

that haunts me all day

#762

a man and goose chat

backdrop of low mist in park

morning pleasantries

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Submitted to the Japan Society Haiku Corner (2023 Week 50) 

#761

if i concentrate

i can just about recall

the way she looked then

#760

if i concentrate

i can just about recall

what i need to do

#759

drops of water in

the coat of a small black cat

no wonder it frowns

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Submitted to the Japan Society Haiku Corner (2023 Week 49) 

#758

there’s never really

any point to me being 

anywhere ever

#24

i spend much of my 

time imagining your death -

ev’ry single way.

because what we imagine

cannot possibly happen.

so when i look sad

it’s because I've re-lived your 

death once more again -

but this way you will live on.

this.

         for immortality.

#757

darkness by teatime

startles the hedgehog watching

and waiting for night

#756

rain so pathetic

it leaves a blur in the air

that soaks to your bones

#755

concrete cell background

why would you choose this on teams?

austere-thetic

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Submitted to the Japan Society Haiku Corner (2023 Week 48) - although I have changed the last line here from Austere-etic.

#754

2pm outside

inside it feels like evening

and sleep clouds your mind

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Submitted to the Japan Society Haiku Corner (2023 Week 47).

#753

in the Greek Islands

escaping the fall of leaves

for hot autumn sun

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Written for the Tricycle October 2023 Haiku Challenge using the Autumn season word, autumn sun.