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Stare case

Posted on October 23, 2018 by yamey
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ASTAIR

Your eye is enticed 

towards a celestial light,

relentlessly

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Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged climbing, greenwich, haiku, helix, hypnotic, london, optical, poetry, spiral, staircase, verse, vision, visual | 3 Replies

Promises

Posted on October 21, 2018 by yamey
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At the high altar

Promises are now made

That no one may alter

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Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged altar, church, haiku, marriage, micropoem, poetry, promise, swear, verse | Leave a reply

House of God

Posted on October 20, 2018 by yamey
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CLOUDS Hannove

 

The house of God reaches

upwards to meet with

the cloudy firmament

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Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged church, clouds, god, haiku, house of god, london, micropoem, photography, poetry, sky, verse | 1 Reply

Tennis at Wimbledon

Posted on October 20, 2018 by yamey
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BALL

Power, skill, tactics,

tennis on the closely clipped lawn:

game, set, and match

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Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged ball, grass, haiku, match, micropoem, net, poem, set, skill, sport, tennis, verse, wimbledon | Leave a reply

Ryanair

Posted on October 17, 2018 by yamey
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Waiting, waiting, waiting,

Always delay’d

Why did we fly Ryanair?

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Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged airline, anticipation, blogging, delay, flight, flying, haiku, late, micropoem, poem, Ryanair, verse, waiting | 2 Replies

Sicilia

Posted on October 16, 2018 by yamey
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Reptile on a wall

Hot stone in Palermo

The warmth of Sicily

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Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged haiku, haiku and photography, italy, lizard, palermo, poem, reptile, Sicilia, sicily, stone, verse | Leave a reply

Rainfall in Sicily

Posted on October 16, 2018 by yamey
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Palermo in the rain

A sea of umbrellas

Bad weather today

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Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged haiku, micropoem, palermo, poem, rain, sicily, street, umbrella, verse, weather, wet | Leave a reply

Amnesia

Posted on October 9, 2018 by yamey
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AMNESIA

I  tell you what I recall

 not what I have forgotten:

memory

 

 

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Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged amnesia, blogger, blogging, brain, consciousness, forgetting, haiku, memory, mind, personality, poetry, recall, verse | 1 Reply

Like a candle…

Posted on October 8, 2018 by yamey
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Inspired by a wax sculpture, “Dasha”, by Urs Fischer

CANDLE 1

 

Like a candle, an idea

burns through her brain

burrowing still deeper 

CANDLE 2

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Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged art, burning, candle, flame, haiku, london, micropoem, poem, poetry, sculpture, Urs Fischer, verse, wax, wax sculpture | Leave a reply

Horse power

Posted on October 7, 2018 by yamey
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horse 1
horse 3
horse 4
horse 2

Horse power, no diesel

glimpsing  the past:

on today’s Piccadilly

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Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged anachronism, archaic, carriage, deja vu, equine, haiku, horse, horse power, london, micropoem, omnibus, piccadilly, poem, poetry, verse | Leave a reply

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