#1702 (#365)

the yellow flowers

planted in your memory

shine brightly as you

#1701 (#364)

trying to keep warm

by going up and down in

the platform 6 lift

#1700 (#363)

lunch neatly arranged small items in compartments extracted with care

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Written for entry into the 2024 British Haiku Society Awards.

#1699 (#362) (lightning storm)

crooked fingers stretch across the night sky to me my hair stands on end

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Written for entry into the 2024 British Haiku Society Awards.

#1698 (#361)

a whole district gone consumed by the thick grey clouds obliterated

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Written for entry into the 2024 British Haiku Society Awards.

#1697 (#360)

the lengthening night descends like a bird of prey and we have no chance

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Written for and entered into the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society's 2024 Tokutomi Memorial Contest using the Autumn season word lengthening night and also entered into the 2024 British Haiku Society Awards.

#1696 (#359)

on Christmas morning

full stocking in the tree light 

the wonder of it

#1695 (#358)

waiting for santa

listening out for the signs

but mostly in dreams

#1694 (#357)

first sunrise wakes me: and so i close the curtains, my head cursing me.

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Written for and entered into the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society's 2024 Tokutomi Memorial Contest using the New Year season word first sunrise and also entered into the 2024 British Haiku Society Awards.

#1693 (#356)

peace descending on the floor of the autumn woods a time for planning

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Written for and entered into the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society's 2024 Tokutomi Memorial Contest using the Autumn season word autumn woods and also entered into the 2024 British Haiku Society Awards.

#1692 (#355)

polythene blankets over the withered garden regenerate me

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Written for and entered into the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society's 2025 Tokutomi Memorial Contest using the Winter season word withered garden.

#1691 (#354)

the godless month gets away from me as does a mutinous thought

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Written for and entered into the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society's 2025 Tokutomi Memorial Contest using the Autumn season word godless month.

#1690 (#353)

scene change jealousy watching the departing geese then more monotones

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Written for and entered into the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society's 2025 Tokutomi Memorial Contest using the Spring season word departing geese.

#1689

a scream for silence

watching the figure cry she

heard the hard fury

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From words on page 594 of The Book of Dust, Volume 3: The Rose Field by Philip Pullman (David Fickling Books/Penguin 2025).

#1688 (#352)

this new year’s first smile

ensured by real explosions

if not from your kiss

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Written for and entered into the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society's 2025 Tokutomi Memorial Contest using the New Year season word scent of first smile.

#1687 (#351)

stumblingly drunk-lost ‘til the scent of plum blossoms starts to guide me home

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Written for and entered into the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society's 2025 Tokutomi Memorial Contest using the New Year season word scent of plum blossoms.

#1686 (#350)

does silence exist?

everywhere there is some noise

where there's not. heartbeats.

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Written and submitted to Frogpond 

#1685 (#349)

the future zooms on flies over the past, leaves it below wondering

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Written and submitted to Frogpond and entered into the 2024 British Haiku Society Awards Competition

#1684 (#348)

date palms in the wind

from the backstroke silent world 

where time's suspended

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Written and submitted to Frogpond and entered into the 2024 British Haiku Society Awards Competition

#1683 (#347)

all people will go but when it’s unexpected… the maze is harder

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Written and submitted to Frogpond and entered into the 2024 British Haiku Society Awards Competition

#1682 (#343)

stood in a hallway

just a hundred miles long

desiring coffee

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Written and submitted to Frogpond and entered into the 2024 British Haiku Society Awards Competition

#1681 (#342)

the cold moon rises

indifferent to your plight

unless you have love

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Written and submitted to Frogpond and entered into the 2024 British Haiku Society Awards Competition

#1680 (#341)

clarity of blue

the ceiling stretching over

and the first clean breath

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Written and submitted to Frogpond and entered into the 2024 British Haiku Society Awards Competition

#1679 (#340)

3:30 : bright moon

high up in the clear blue sky

as freezing as ice

#1678 (#339)

Hurry Close a place

for lovers to be as one

and do so quickly

#1677 (#338)

guided by migraines

pulling me this way and that

leading decisions

#1676 (#337)

the giant wolf cloud

slowly moving forward to 

briefly eat the moon

#1675

outwardly orange; 

inside gnarled, warty, green and 

bitter as the gourd.

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Written for the October Tricycle Haiku Challenge using the Autumn season word, Gourd.

#1674 (#336)

winter sun so low

i can catch it with my eyes

wear it as glasses

#1673 (#335)

cold in the shadows

where the sun cannot see you

to offer you warmth