Kocho
: Within Touching Distance
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wondering if-
one day hot, one day cold...
and now it's spring
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a honeymoon
brochure
drenched in an April shower
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our Greek Island -
too early in the season
for the plumbing to work
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it's a distinctive view
the sketch is a caricature
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coming home
a forlorn cloud here & there
covers the moon
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francis |
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the prodigal son turns up
on armistice day
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* * * *
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his poetry
much influenced by the work
of Rupert Brooke
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under an English heaven
emigrants and refugees
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huddled round the TV
watching the news
central heating full-blast
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I walk out of the house
into the teeth of a blizzard
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summer appears
an orchid in a blue vase
on the boss' desk
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a crane fly moves nimbly
across the dark ceiling
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onto the patio
a single-minded youth
night-visiting
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the extra talk is stifled
to keep in trust first talk
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francis |
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sometimes photos
bring him right back,
she snaps that old rose again
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paper-folded leopard
prints of paint-dipped fingers
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under the birch
and the moon's dappled light
small creatures
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dick |
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are the fungi they picked
safe, or - what do you think?
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survival course
a week in the bush
living off the land
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water everywhere
in mud and sweat and tears
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within touching distance
in all its seven colours
an umbrella lifts the sky
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the fun fair's rifle range
is packed with local huntsmen
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looking bemused,
a young girl peppered
by cherry blossom
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the new clutch hidden
in the mute swan's nest
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Participants:
Diana Webb (England)
Francis Attard (Malta)
Frank Williams (England)
Dick Pettit (Denmark)
Rotating sabaki
Relevant
elsewhere in Simply Haiku:
Within Touching Distance: tomegaki.
Convenor's comments by Dick Pettit
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