Haiku Bob – Round 1 – Collingwood v Western Bulldogs: familiar scent
March 27, 2017 by 8 Comments
Autumn night –
the stars all in place
for the opening bounce
at last the footy –
the sweet pain
of a gallant defeat
umpire’s whistle –
the crowd suddenly
finds its voice
lingering summer –
the pace of the game
slows to a trickle
windless night –
the long slow drop
of Cloke’s bomb
half-moon
they kick the goal
we need
familiar scent –
the season opens
in defeat
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.
Very pleased to be reading the internationally renowned exponent of haiku on the Almanac site – for his eleventh season!
Great to be back JTH.
It promises to be another heartbreaking year.
Go Pies!
One man’s heartbreak is another man’s joy. :)
Welcome to the new season HB.
HB I thought the Pies were pretty good. They’ll win a few this year. If its any consolation I don’t reckon Cloke will make the Doggies best 22.
Welcome back HB. A fine start to the season.
Re booing of Cloke: what were they booing him for? Being crucified by Buckley last year? Plain dumb.
Gotta love the commentators praise Cloke efforts like he was BOG but it he had the same game for Pies would have been condemned! Booing I think it part of the tradition and did you see the was the Collingwood players treated him after the final siren. Top stuff
No quarrels with how the playing group treated Trav, but the booing was pretty average I thought, especially compared to the reception Petrie got on Sunday.
The haiku is a gem, Bob.
Agreed DC – I thought the booing was good theater, and half in jest. It might well have been a collective purging of 12 years of watching him line up for goal as if he was walking the plank. Occasionally, he nails one. And I thought the commentators ‘analysis’ of his game was baffling. A typically good ordinary performance from the big fella.
Thanks for the comments guys.
HB.