#2032 (#273)

it's not just a hat

my lucky makarapa

brings the victories

#2031 (#272)

a suffixoid man

with that final element

that is not quite right

#2030

diamonds exhorting

thoughts of a planet called home

time places gently

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From words on page 385 of We Solve Murders by Richard Osman (Penguin, 2025/2024). 

#2029 (#271)

googled half-boiled egg

expecting to be put off

but am now intrigued

#2028 (#270)

semaphore signals

from hands under the tabl

i text the excuse

#2027 (#269)

never called it this:

Elizabethan collar -

just collar of shame

#2026 (#268)

soul food in Seoul

marinated joy fills me 

eating bulgogi

#2025 (#267)

my old Trini friend

gave me soca and doubles

he’s always been dear

#2024

small teeth holding eyes.

dining considered, dismissed

absent-mindedly. 

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From words on page 268 of When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr (HarperCollins, 2008/1971). 

#2023

here must be somewhere

my excuse, hilda, is there

tall blue hair girl, she.

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From words on page 33 (ish) of Hilda and the Bird Parade by Luke Pearson (Flying Eye Books, 2016/2013). 

#2021 and #2022 (#266)

when all is shoogly

but really it is just you

you have to stay still

*

when treadmill shoogly

get some water inside you

to steady the ship

#2020 (#265)

on the village green

he’s stretching out for the day

our own ludraman

#2019 (#264)

twists, turns, surprises

Maltese English a super

rollercoaster ride

#2018 (#263)

suya love, first bite.

a quick stop became habit

in those early days.

#2017 (#262)

brightly shining with 

sweet fruits of many colour

my congealed salad

#2015 and #2016 (#261)

a terror teacher

all the hallmarks they did wear

strict, harsh, demanding

*

our terror teacher

we did in turn terrorise

a classroom breakdown

#2014 (#260)

wedding boozeroo

a carnage i wished i could

only imagine

#2013 (#259)

a pride in her home

she regularly kneels down

with her donkey stone

#2012 (#257)

an open hearth fire

filling the room with warm light

chiollagh in the home

#2011 (#256)

helping my children

make new caddy ole punches

i feel young and old

#2010 (#255)

sailing terms? not me.

unless a racing pirate

in a bulb keel boat

#2009 (#254)

papare music

creating the atmosphere

for the team to win

#2008 (#253)

a burger returns

his work done, finally home

both changed and unchanged

#2006 (please) and #2007 (#252)

a checkstop inside

a gate that stops private thoughts

spilling and hurting

**

a checkstop murder

a little tinker with it

and the path is clear

#2005 (#251)

a story in song

(a singer and a drummer)

such is pansori

#2004 (#250)

crispy buttery

flaky folded bread oh my

i love butter flaps

#2003 (#249)

the softball question

in a relationship is 

the biggest of all

#2002 (#248)

a Tokyo cafe

an omurice comfort hug

and friendly faces

#2001 (#247)

my jelloid tablets

lined up and ready to go

every vitamin

#2000 (#246)

wearing Bantu knots

re-writing the narrative 

away from “scary”

#1999

a cumulus cloud

alone against the blue sky

daffodil seeking

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Written for the July Tricycle Haiku Challenge using the Summer season word, cumulus cloud.

#1998 (#245)

in the Gaidhealtachd lands

an ancient lineage lives

works and dreams Gaelic

#1997 (#244)

arm out - don't argue -

then on through the rain and mud

diving for the try