first goal—
how the drudgery of the week
ends
déjà vu—
Daicos lifts
my mood
clouds on clouds—
defenders finding bits of space
out of none
nature calls
the muffled sound of the goal
I miss
half-time
my daughter and her friend
compare nails
game in the balance
each twist
in the winter branches
half-light
as shadows grow
our lead dwindles
final siren
I am that child
eating jam donuts
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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.
Thank you (again) HB.
I can’t seem to add the photographic image here,
but will try to paint it anyway:
In the last roll of the dice,
Taylor Adams grabs Silvagni’s arm and kicking leg
Whilst our Jezza leaps from a distant suburb to smother.
The decisive moment.
A match-wining goal
is thus thwarted
by two game-saving heroics.
Heart-stopping and heart-warming.
Like those jam donuts.