after my team wins
I tell her I can play
guitar
leaves aflutter
the forward line
looking lively
wind gusts –
the back and forth
of the Sherrin
Autumn sky –
a shade more black and white
in the crowd
commentators on mute –
Pendlebury narrates
the win
burst of sunshine
Collingwood briefly
back to life
MCG dusk –
players jumping
at shadows
Autumn rain
drinking in
my football team’s win
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.
The joy of haiku is how an economy of words says so much. Images more than descriptors.
Loved the playing guitar and Pendlebury narrates verses.
Thanks HB
Another Brilliant Set of Haikus.
Ball rolled on the ground,
favored men couldn’t grab it:
Selwood under wraps.
Flat, slow and fumbly’s
no way to play footy, son.
Geelong lose again.