#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.

#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.

#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

#985

tiny hands plucking 

seeds as small feet grip the fence 

squirrelling a feast

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Written for the 2023 British Haiku Society Awards Competition

#983 (Jallianwala Bagh, Amritsar)

the air is so still

time stopped in memoriam,

though the well still cries.

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Written for the 2023 British Haiku Society Awards Competition

#981

the pond surface is

as alive as my mind is

taking it all in

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Written for the 2023 British Haiku Society Awards Competition

#496

lego floods the floor

like a river’s burst its banks:

the sign of the boy.

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Written for the 2021 British Haiku Society Awards Competition

#495

tingle in my heart

last thing I will ever feel.

winter (frozen hard).

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Written for the 2021 British Haiku Society Awards Competition

#494

ev’ry autumn I 

remember how I fell too.

leaves on the surface.

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Written for the 2021 British Haiku Society Awards Competition

#493

dragonfly hovers

as still as I sit watching.

how long can we hold?

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Written for the 2021 British Haiku Society Awards Competition

#492

flowers in the cracks,

life sprouting where there’d been none.

spring in the city.

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Written for the 2021 British Haiku Society Awards Competition