#1701 (#364)

trying to keep warm

by going up and down in

the platform 6 lift

#1570 (#243)

parked on double lines

by a disused parking sign

not quite blotted out

#1567 (#240)

slowed right down because

there are aunties and uncles 

in the cycle lane

#1490 (#175)

ants round a cherry

the boy says it's a party

(for those attending)

*

Outside my son's school there was a crushed cherry on the pavement that was attracting mass of ants running to and from it. He said it was a party and wondered why a second crowd of ants not far away weren't going to it. He said, “It's a party, but not all the ants are going.”

#1453 (#145)

walked away quickly

changed tempo on meeting trees

ambled back slowly

#1404 (#100)

Lookup I SEE U

papered windows two black holes

what are they doing?

#1154 (#248)

refreshing autumn air

on my first day back at work

reviving my brain

#1133

learner bulliers 

overtaking not waiting

they will go to hell

#1088

ear pods gym treadmill

getting real emotional

nostalgia/fitness

#1035 (#169)

we escaped the rain,

(it was biblical) and found

a rearview rainbow.

#1012 (library assistant dangers)

pushed into a room

to deal with a winter bee

slow but scary huge

#927

an abandoned tea

sat waiting in the kitchen 

but she’s gone away

#920 (#086)

tapas whitebait plate

with cold beer, sunshine, and friends

in Barcelona

#877

leaf at my window

brief, fleeting butterfly-like

thought it was alive

#824

not the digger but

the robin it was watched

ev’ry single move

#784

binge watched in error!

one episode left to air!

one week more to wait!

#774

the spooky jet sounds

from the inside of the clouds

unnerve derelax

#764

crammed on the back seat

i thought more would get off there

like this all the way

#763

i saw a mem’ry

of croissant; a ghost croissant

that haunts me all day

#762

a man and goose chat

backdrop of low mist in park

morning pleasantries

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Submitted to the Japan Society Haiku Corner (2023 Week 50)