Poison stars thread silk
in deathly constellations.
Cricket’s song unsung.
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Paul Hughes 2011
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Well, I don’t pretend to be any good at Haiku but I’m emerging from a very dry spell (training as a psychotherapist is draining my creative juices) and thought I’d have to write something. James Carter once said he writes haiku when he’s short of ideas. So, it seems a valid exercise. James hates limericks. I like them. So, here’s one I wrote this morning.
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Bill was a corgi from Kent
The Queen said “your tail is bent!
But wag it, dear fella,
and like a propellor ,
you’ll pass by with royal ascent.”
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Paul Hughes 2011
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Madam Topping assures me that the plural of “haiku” is “haiku.” So, thank you Ma’am and apologies to all…
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I think your creative juices show through in your psychotherapy training Paul.
And I love limericks.
Thanks Nige! Nice of you to visit. The good news is that I’ve a poem slowly maturing in my head. Two months of poetic sloth may be coming to an end…