The Story So Far

Early excitement

Small squad proves predictable

'Beamish Line' beckons

(Haiku about Swindon Town in the 2023/24 season)

An English Spring

The first signs of spring

Council-planted crocuses

Or is it croci?

Last Night it Snowed

Walking in fresh snow

Looking back at the footprints
That prove you exist

Eagle

Riding the thermals

Your feathered majesty soars

And looks down on us

(Write Club homework based on phrase 'eagle soaring')

Abstract

'Make them more abstract'
That's my lesson from last time
Horse pain lightbulb coal

Four 'Guess the Musicals' haiku

1.

Great and Powerful
Or just a frightened old man
Behind a curtain

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2.

A wager is struck
Flower girl becomes Duchess
Becomes unhappy

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3.

Love in the gold rush
Two husbands, one too many
Time to go wan’drin

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4.

A 1950s
Romeo and Juliet
In New York City

Calm

All seems calm
Windchime
says different

(Included in British Haiku Society Annual Anthology 2012)

Frost

First frost
breaking the ice
on the birdbath

(included in British Haiku Society Journal Volume 21 Number 1)

Letter

I know what's in this letter -
That's why
I'm not opening it

(included in British Haiku Society Journal Volume 22 Number 3)

View #2

View from the oche -
Two long-tailed tits in the tree
Cat relieves itself

Moustache

Excellent moustache!
A Wild West re-enactment
would make you Sheriff

Wagtail

Pied Wagtail walking
Like a wound up clockwork mouse
On lush green carpet

View #1

View from the kitchen -
Unopened charity shop,
Poo bag stuck in tree

Vapour

December morning
Sunshine strikes frozen fenceposts
Vapour starts to dance

Lava

Evening rush hour
Brake lights pour down the incline
Like molten lava

Storms

Thunderstorms roll through
exclamation marks of sound
punctuating night

Weltmeister

Presentation time
Argentina came up short
Germans lift the gold

Winner

Mario Gotze
with a chest then a volley
breaks Final deadlock

Poised

An hour has gone by
and we're no nearer knowing
who wins the World Cup

Preview

The world's best player
The tournament's finest team
Which one will prevail?