minute’s silence —
the stillness
of the clouds
removing our hats
for the remembrance
all these old blokes
my age
Anzac Day —
unlike the bugler
Collingwood stumbles
“Age shall not weary them,
nor the years condemn” —
Pendlebury gets caught
defeat looms —
I really ought to call
home
another drubbing —
the faded names
on the Honour Roll
latest defeat —
journos jostle to lay
the first wreath
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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.
Just love that last stanza – huge implications expressed in such an economy of words!
Brilliant, HB.
One of your very best HB. The journos jostle getting more crowded by the day.