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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

Seasonal haiku

Posted on October 6, 2018 by yamey
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Autumn_500

Leaves are falling

sun rises late, air cooling

I’m thinking autumnal  

 

 

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Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged autumn, autumnal, blogger, blooging, contemplation, haiky, leaves, poem, poetry, seasonal, verse | 3 Replies

Man Ray

Posted on October 6, 2018 by yamey
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Artwork by Man Ray (1890-1976)

DADA

It’s so simple yet so alluring

a sieve, a mouse trap:

it’s pure Dada

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Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged art, Dada, haiku, kitchen, london, Man Ray, poem, surrealism, verse | 2 Replies

Question of clothing

Posted on October 4, 2018 by yamey
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JACKET

Is it à la mode?

A tailor’s design?

Or is it a torn jacket?

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Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged artistic, clothing, fashion, fashionable, haiku, jacket, london, poetry, questions, tailor, trendy, verse | 1 Reply

Under foot

Posted on October 4, 2018 by yamey
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Contemplation of an artwork by Doris Salcedo

DORIS

 

walking across the names

of refugees drown’d:

such is artwork today

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Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged art, conceptual art, Doris Salcedo, drowning, haiku, london, maritime, micropoem, poem, poetry, refugees, verse, walking, White Cube | Leave a reply

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