Haiku Bob – Round 22 – the far corners (A Dane Swan Tribute)
autumn colours
the tattooed rover
adds his
a chill
in the winter sun —
Swan scuffs his first kick
not breaking stride
Swanny weaves winter
into spring
cloud drift Swan waddles through a gap in the crows
pack forms –
Swan ducks his head
into the cloud
freshly cut fields
Swan feeds
on the MCG
still no goals
just Swanny
running
Swan again
the Sherrin must be
a lung
spreading butter
to the far corners of my toast
Swan everywhere
miskick
Swan goals
in spite of it
up the ground
and back again
Swan’s shadow
long winter —
the ball stained
with Swan’s foot
spring shadows
Swan gets cornered
into kicking the goal
football
the ocean
Swan swims in
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.
Swan and Boris
In the goal square
Tattooed nous wins
HB, a crappy Haiku attempt at my favourite Swan moment when he beat Enright in a goal square contest one night at the G. One of my favourite non-Geelong players.
Great tribute from you.
Love “the ball stained – with Swan’s foot”. Powerful images. HB – Haiku Brownlow?
Love it all HB.
The toast.
The up the ground and back again.
All of it.