Round 9 – Haiku Bob: like my life

no goal for an hour
losing the thread
of our conversation

 

 

we look good
for a quarter
just like my life

 

 

late autumn —
the different colours of the teams
beating us

 

 

day almost done —
Collingwood players not finished
doing nothing

 

 

nightfall —
after falling to another defeat
I fall into bed

 

 

face-mask restrictions eased —
the coach
on everyone’s lips

 

 

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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.

Comments

  1. Bill Wootton says

    All those colours, Rob, are there any that haven’t combined yet to give us a shellacking? Love the truncated conversation haiku too.

    Still, Go Pies,

    Bill

  2. haiku bob says

    Thanks Bill.
    I believe the brown and gold are still waiting in line…
    Hopefully they’ll leave their coach behind.

    Cheers,
    HB.

  3. On and off the field,
    We all need to Do Better
    and to Think Better …

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