Hot bath and a book
Still, steamy contemplation
Of Vimes and Sybil
Children not at home.
Hotel Seymour stands empty.
Except for the dog.
Dogs barking at night
Locked blind inside their gardens.
Helpless excitement.
The Thames from the sky
Cable car passes above
Grey murky water
Amanuensis:
Not lover or friend.
Shorthand office clerk
Loud voices outside
Going home from the nightclub.
Empathy missing.
Cars on the high street
Pass like waves crashing on sand.
Urban undertow.
Haiku should contain
Seasonal words called kigo.
Wild orange blossom!
A week of haiku:
Summer days of doggerel.
Count these syllables!
White coat in summer?
July experimentation.
Pipettes and pollen.
Middle of the night
Is when I miss you the most.
Well, and daytime too!
This morning's dawn light
Creeps around the window blind.
How crepuscular.
With a crash of glass
A painting fell off the wall.
Midnight thief of sleep
If it floods, my love,
It's downhill from Nottingham..
With a little luck.
A poem should rhyme
Unless it is very short
Or translated wrong