poetry diary

Where footprints end
the sand stirs softly, borne by
autumn winds.

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For haiku heights September challenge. Today’s prompt is footprint.

A happy child sleeps,
while the last of the tall ships
floats off with the ducks.

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For haiku heights September challenge. Today’s prompt is paper boat.

Falling rose petals,
lull exhausted earth to sleep,
at summer’s end.

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For haiku heights September challenge. Today’s prompt is sleep.

Next door’s small black cat
vanishes every summer;
quantum paradox?

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For haiku heights September challenge. Today’s prompt is paradox (I found this very tough). Schrödinger’s Cat is a famous paradox in quantum physics involving a black cat which is neither alive nor dead. Our neighbours have two (sometimes..).

Two people in spring,
like hummingbirds, edging
towards their first kiss.

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For haiku heights September challenge. Today’s prompt is hummingbird.

Afterwards, driving
on summer roads, he felt
consumed by love.

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For haiku heights September challenge. Today’s prompt is birth. Some feelings are unforgettable. My daughter is 16 now.

Turf hides many tales,
green where armies fought, but the
corn is glorious.

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For haiku heights September challenge. Today’s prompt is glory. Edgehill was a battle in the English Civil War, fought close to where I live.

Autumn lights the leaves;
trees flaming red-gold, smoke-soft,
until the first frost.

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For haiku heights September challenge. Today’s prompt is lights, and I saw a tree half-turned to red beside the road this morning.

Abandoned shack
above the beach, with footprints
ending in the sea.

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For haiku heights September challenge. The prompt is a rather bleak ‘starve’.