AFL Round 11 – Haiku Bob – starting a fire

 

 

starting a fire –

at the opening bounce

someone gets knocked out

 

 

 

scent of woodsmoke –

Pendlebury pauses

and changes direction

 

 

 

 

autumn colours –

a purple patch

in the first quarter

 

 

 

clear skies

the ball disappears

into the crowd

 

 

 

late autumn night

the drone

of another goal

 

 

 

spinning leaf

Fasolo curls one

over his head

 

 

 

deep into autumn

Young’s kick goes deep

inside fifty

 

 

 

night cools

the fast scoring

slows

 

 

 

winter looms

the veteran’s calf

wrapped in ice

 

About rob scott

Rob Scott (aka Haiku Bob) is a peripatetic haiku poet who calls Victoria Park home. He writes haiku in between teaching whisky and drinking English, or something like that.

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