Finals Week 3 – Preliminary Final: part of the moon – Haiku Bob
Magpies bow out
part of the moon
worn away
sometimes the marks
sometimes the goals
Jamie Elliot
a single mark
can change a whole season
or not
rock paper scissors Raynor
giving voice
to the wind
umpire’s whistle
silence gathers
on the train platform
semi-final defeat
fallen blossoms
another season over
too soon
grand final week
my mother’s hydrangeas
still the favourite
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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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