#1722

a scarecrow poet

standing in view of The Strand

hopes not to repel

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Written for the November Tricycle Haiku Challenge using the Autumn season word, Scarecrow.

#1720

scarecrow cremations

fill the air so they can fly

as they dreamed they would

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Written for the November Tricycle Haiku Challenge using the Autumn season word, Scarecrow.

#1710

scarecrows stand stoic,

still. no noisy jump scares, they

silently menace

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Written for the November Tricycle Haiku Challenge using the Autumn season word, Scarecrow, and edited slightly for publication.

#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.

#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.

#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.

#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.

#1646

katydids cry out

for love - we think only that 

winter is coming

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Written for the September Tricycle Haiku Challenge using the Autumn season word, Katydid.

#1644

waiting to be heard

katydids sit in the trees

looking for poets

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Written for the September Tricycle Haiku Challenge using the Autumn season word, Katydid.

#1306

the fox in the coop

brings the chilly autumn wind 

that cuts to the bone

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Written for the Tricycle November 2024 Haiku Challenge using the Autumn season word, autumn wind but not finished until now and so not entered.

#1304

the dreams of the year

start to blow away as leaves

on the autumn wind

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Written for the Tricycle November 2024 Haiku Challenge using the Autumn season word, autumn wind.

#1269

that much vaunted change

of green to red leaves means less

when you’re colour blind

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Written for the Tricycle October 2024 Haiku Challenge using the Autumn season word, red leaves.

#1266

vine invisible

until its leaves have turned red

against evergreen

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Written for the Tricycle October 2024 Haiku Challenge using the Autumn season word, red leaves, but not entered.

#1264

sudden late bloomer

red leaves appearing against

the evergreen tree

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Written for the Tricycle October 2024 Haiku Challenge using the Autumn season word, red leaves.

#1254 (#335)

katana-shaped fish

its guts kept in though for taste

mackerel pike autumn

#1253 (#334)

i was working on

mackerel pike yesterday then 

the day got away

#1252 (#333)

so much of life is

preparation - reed cutting

always for later

#1251 (#332)

an hour to go

i find a kigo (apple)

and i take a bite

#1250 (#331)

migrating birds fill

then empty, fill then empty…

the annual moods

#1249 (#330)

what a way to end

after the admiration

tattered lotus woe