#1769

sleep failed silence breath

“i don’t want you to see this”

a glimpse empty trapped

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From words on page 263 of The Cracked Mirror by Chris Brookmyre (Abacus Books, 2025).

#1767

a glass brain useless

eyes down a glimpse devils here

the oubliette voice

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From words on page 263 of The Cracked Mirror by Chris Brookmyre (Abacus Books, 2025).

#1766 (#052)

girlfs out on the town

drink, play, and keep a look out -

protect each other

#1765

the New Town badger

in a Mazda (passenger)

sleep eyes in half-light

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From words on page 263 of The Cracked Mirror by Chris Brookmyre (Abacus Books, 2025).

#1764 (#051)

great-willy woman

stands and speaks up for herself

shows us how it’s done

#1763 (#050)

docht is power, strength,

wandocht is the opposite -

i am very wan

#1762 (#049)

mornings after nights

contorted by little-ease

type positioning

#1761 (#048)

lixiviated:

when a + b = c

and a new life starts

#1760 (#047)

walking all wonky

gaining police attention

feeling so bumpsy

#1759 (#046)

the panic then calm

that comes with rearview blue-lights

and the hopeful prayer

#1758 (#045)

the click of our love

the keys that we each keep safe

the love lock witness

#1757 (#044)

cocklebells dripping

playing the song that signal

the world warming up

#1756 (#043)

becoming someone

through antonomasia

my name left behind

#1755 (#042)

let's lampoon that man

send him to the sillograph

take him down some pegs

#1754 (#041)

fucking mellyvous man

with a voicebox full of hate

he spews over all

#1753

the cabbage dragon

swooped above the moon and lost

his way home for months

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From words on page 91 of Roverandom by JRR Tolkien (HarperCollinsPublishers, 2013).

#1752 (#040)

the old trusty mug

the sound of biscuit in tea

a dunker’s delight

#1751 (#039)

i can't understand

having one dog let alone

polydoggery 

#1750 (#038)

vox pop avoidance

round the creepy-peepy crew

with a quick shuffle

#1749 (#037)

a stall stocked so full,

this mirabiliary

was one to admire!

#1748

take you everywhere

know roughly where i'm going

have time to stretch/stop

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From words on page 19 of Lessons for Young Artists by David Gentleman (Penguin, 2025 [Kindle Edition]).

#1747 (#036)

hobby-horsical

a mind only on one thing

things that steam and smoke

#1746

gentle, still and cold the fields fast asleep in the winter solstice sun

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Written for the December Tricycle Haiku Challenge using the Winter season word, Winter solstice, but was entered late.

#1745 (#035)

a curious fox

in a nail-sick shack wonders

at this new rainfall

#1744

only the evergreens will greet the winter solstice outdoors it's lonely

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Written for the December Tricycle Haiku Challenge using the Winter season word, Winter solstice, but was entered late.

#1743 (#034)

thought he had you but

was just ignoratio 

elenchi instead

#1742 (#033)

botryoidal love

at the start so bountiful

so slim by the end

#1741 (#032) and #46

all my hidden thoughts,

intentions, dressed up fancy

arrière-pensée

*

if I make it french

will it be fancy instead?

“arrière-pensée!”

hmm, it sounds more like ballet

than scheming and treachery