Haiku Bob – Round 2: moon stranded
April 5, 2018 by 7 Comments
Easter Saturday
no signs of life
inside 50
dipping sun
we keep our noses
in front
player breaks his leg
a few twisted branches
exposed
twilight
a stray kick
scores a goal
makeshift forward line
the moon stranded
in the pocket
darkness closes in
the coach rearranges
the deck chairs
after the loss
one by one the stadium lights
go out
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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.
HB – on Easter Monday footy rose again!!
Dips – Thanks to St Patrick and the Son of God. The rest look like the lost tribes of Israel. Delilah certainly gave Tommy Hawkins a haircut.
Easter Monday is becoming a religious experience.
Jeff Kennett has risen from the dead. Say it isn’t true. Just when I started to warm to him for Beyond Blue, his troglodyte attitude to pokies and women (how’s that for being a mental health advocate?) WTF?
Hawthorn are welcome to him. “A dog returning to his vomit.”
Superb HB. The Titanic/Collingwood reference very apt.
Whilst recently in New Zealand, I had decided to not access any news of round 2.
But then, whilst driving, I saw a roadside sign with the words: Haiku Pathway.
I was reminded that there is a Way – to seek passage, like Basho on the Road to the North Country, through the pathway of Haiku. In particular: yours.
I agree with you and Luke about the deckchairs. But beyond one game or t’other, I join with the Pica fellowship in applauding your Way of trying to make sense of this thing called Faith.
Thanks Luke and Stephen.
Stephen – thanks for the pic. I’ll try to add it to the site somewhere.
Cheers,
HB.