how to stay warm –
the game opens
with more tackles than kicks
break in the clouds
play gets switched
to the sunny side
burst of sunshine
a tangle of shadows
around the ball
changing conditions
the ruckman
does the roving
icy wind and rain an Irishman prepares to enter the fray
sun, moon and rainbow Dawes misses the lot
in the winter sun
and now the rain
confusing decisions
rain stops
magpies go back
to kicking goals
under the rainbow’s arch
the importance of winning
vanishes
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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