Document 1484
Haikus posted between 22 July 2006 and 30 July 2006
Author(s): John McDonald
Copyright holder(s): John McDonald
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sica quate muir
twa deuks squaik:
smitches yondermaist
such a silent moor
two ducks squawk:
dots on the horizon
Saturday, July 29, 2006
ma blin neebor
fingers ilka new blume
...an smirks
my blind neighbour
fingers each new bloom
...and smiles
pouin snail
frae ma door -
his glisterin fuit
prising snail
from my door -
his glistening foot
airlie brakfast
clockers skelterin
aw bit yin...hirplin nou
early breakfast
cockroaches scuttling
except one...limping now
drucken lauchter
tassies fleet i the puil
saiklessness
o a new muin's lip
drunken laughter
cups float in the pool
pureness
of a new moon's edge
a perfit raing
o ill-colourit girse -
riven posters
a perfect circle
of discoloured grass -
torn posters
swaws rattlin
owre the herbour waa -
maw flees...gaes naewey
waves crashing
over the harbour wall -
gull flies...goes nowhere
ah...yince mair
the fume o buddleia -
simmer nivver foryets
ah...once more
the fragrance of buddleia -
summer never forgets
Friday, July 28, 2006
kintra kirk
hamelt lairstanes
pent-rins
country church
home-made headstones
paint-runs
nuin het
three tikes ligg
daffin i thair drames
noon heat
three dogs lie
chasing their dreams
Thursday, July 27, 2006
blithefou skirls
frae the puil -
the mither's tirr owre
...the noo
joyous squeals
from the pool -
the mother's tantrums over
...for the moment
bein duntit
bi bummers an butteries -
buddleia in blume
being bumped
by bees and butterflies -
buddleia in bloom
Wednesday, July 26, 2006
on the gean
a saicont flourishin -
bindweed tooters
on the cherry tree
a second blossoming -
bindweed trumpets
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
scuil-yetts lockfast
derk winnocks
a bangster's bleck-ee - lang syne
school-gates chained
dark windows
a bully's black-eye - long ago
a fire-flaucht
owre the firth
jaup o the watter
a shooting-star
over the estuary
slap of the water
aw day
reddin rods
bi nicht a soutar
all day
scything roads
by night a shoemaker
Saturday, July 22, 2006
liggin amang
biddy-bottles' sheddaes
jakies blithe i the sin
lying amongst
wine-bottles' shadows
winos enjoying the sun
jazz session -
sparks jinkin
doon the lozen
jazz session -
raindrops ziggzagging
down the pane
mawin -
dugwuid flourish
doon ma neck
mowing -
dogwood blossom
down my collar
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Haikus posted between 22 July 2006 and 30 July 2006
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