new season starts
at the 10 minute mark
I catch my breath
first quarter
the umpire plucks the ball
from the clinging pack
dusk deepens one more missed goal
the debutant’s
first shot at goal
straight through the middle
MCG in March
Buddy’s skied hook
post-high
Cloke drags down another falling leaves
alone inside fifty
just Buddy
and his man
sultry night
our defence
in bits
entering time-on
what’s left
of the moon
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.
Lovely Me Haiku, lovely. You are a blessed reminder that footy can and should be interpreted in 100’s of different ways.
That should have been “Lovely, Mr Haiku, lovely”.
Beautiful stuff HB,
Whose going to replace Krakouer and Leon this year, not only in the team, but in your Haiku?
Wonderful. A good haiku says more about the feel of a game than a thousand word match report. Welcome back.
good question phil.
buddy and rioli appealed most this week….i guess i have a slant there.
but haiku always offers me an out.
if you lose, talk about the weather!