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The haiku sensation that is sweeping across London
27 May 2009The haiku phenomenon is officially gathering pace. Here is a selection of haikus sent in by Evening Standard readers. Comment below to add your own...
Soft grey skies muffle
the hopeful blossoms scented
with leftover sun
Sensational sunshine
Or dreary drizzly days
The London Lotto
Landed at Heathrow to
unenglish blue skies and sun
What a lovely day!
What should annoy me
Instead makes me love you more
London is my home
Worry where were bees
Was assuaged when two assailed
With love the blue sage
Rattling tube trains
Push wind through the station
Her breath on my cheek
Spring rain pattering
Against the tube train windows
She keeps on talking
On railway tracks
In the silent station
The wrong type of snow
Tramp in a doorway
Sleeping under yesterday's
Financial Times
Deathshead Hawkmoth
In the British Museum
My breath on the glass
City office block
Seventeen storeys up
A single light
Late night closing
Broken glass in the gutter
Reflecting starlight
Mist round the street lamp
An orange-grey dream dragon
Fading into dawn
Morning hangover
The sun flashing from windows
Without a warning
East Sheen showers
I peddle the wet tow path
To my office shelter
Over the lych gate
To the Jesuits' graveyard
A pair of jackdaws
The strawberry moon
caught between glass and beer-mat
a burnet six-spot
May bank holiday
Jackdaws snaffle midges from
A fallow deer's back
Morning commute
The train's momentum
In the small of my back
The ferry boat makes
For the Middlesex side
Parakeet calls
First in the office
My whistling echoes
Up the stairwell
May evening
All the shop dummies
Unclothed
City garden:
A bather's ribcage
Points to the sky
Along the lane
Of whitewashed cottages
Her summer dress
Summer rain
The clank of a ladder
Somewhere outside
Solstice night
Hearing every raindrop
Hit the stones
Reader views (24)
When London awoke
It stretched up to a blue sky
And embraced the sun
- Susan Sarfaty, London, England, 06/06/2009 16:31
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Sweating in Hades
'Stand clear of the closing doors'
eLTee bawls in hell
- Lee, London, London, UK, 05/06/2009 11:05
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Still hot on the Bridge
The running tide breathes up home
Late train to Southend.
- Karen W, Southend-on-Sea, England UK, 03/06/2009 13:20
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Cars, Trains, Buses, Bikes
Wasted pain saying goodbye
London on a new day!
- Wendy Fiddes, London, 03/06/2009 12:12
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They say I'm alone
I don't know why they say so
My soul is will me
by
Pat Patillo
- Patillo, columbia, missouri, usa, 02/06/2009 09:50
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Squirrels in the park
Begging bystanders for nuts.
Alert and happy.
- Eleanor Barham, London, UK, 01/06/2009 15:59
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A week in London
A lifetime of memories
Forever treasured
- Justin Duplessis, Edinburgh UK, 01/06/2009 04:10
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London's Summer sun
Turned Liverpool Street to gold
And made us feel rich!
- Susan Sarfaty, London, England, 31/05/2009 16:05
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A rose lifts its perfect
head ton greet the sun. The
secateurs cut deep.
- Joy Wethered, Seaford, England, 31/05/2009 09:13
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Chelsea and Whitechapel,
Traffic and green parks,
An Angel, a memory.
- Lyn, Newcastle, 29/05/2009 23:52
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Slowly the city is waking
as happiness is caught in a sunbeam
and held in a smile.
- Monica Millan Balducci, London, 29/05/2009 16:53
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The city basks in sun.
Another day has come and gone.
It all remains the same.
- Sue R, London, 29/05/2009 16:09
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The House of Commons
Is really common these days:
Quality has gone.
Speaker Martin is
Leaving us. We shall not miss
His "Order"! what bliss.
Gordon Brown, your time
Has gone forever. Leave us
To rebuild our lives.
- Tom Williams, Oxford UK, 29/05/2009 08:07
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Hot, Sweaty with Grime
Dark, Dim, platforms littered too
This our underground
- Pardeep Gupta, Isleworth, 28/05/2009 16:07
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Oy! Those are my haiku, but aren't attributed!!
Rattling tube trains
Push wind through the station
Her breath on my cheek
Spring rain pattering
Against the tube train windows
She keeps on talking
On railway tracks
In the silent station
The wrong type of snow
Tramp in a doorway
Sleeping under yesterday's
Financial Times
Deathshead Hawkmoth
In the British Museum
My breath on the glass
City office block
Seventeen storeys up
A single light
Late night closing
Broken glass in the gutter
Reflecting starlight
Mist round the street lamp
An orange-grey dream dragon
Fading into dawn
Morning hangover
The sun flashing from windows
Without a warning
- John Hawkhead, Yeovil, UK, 28/05/2009 14:09
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What an awful world
War, drought, crime, pain, heartbreak, fear
Will it ever change
- Jaki Heath, Kent UK, 28/05/2009 10:59
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A house, pond and ducks
this nest is well feathered
at the people's expense
- Jellymoulds, Suffolk UK, 28/05/2009 10:25
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Gloomy credit crunch
Workers bringing in packed lunch
Where's the joy in that
- Maureen Andersen, london, uk, 28/05/2009 09:32
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Big rainbow city
Multi racial and alive
Embracing you all
- Maureen Andersen, london, uk, 28/05/2009 09:29
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Warm sun baking parks
Sullen skies spitting grey rain
Watch the weather map!
- Maureen Andersen, london, uk, 28/05/2009 09:25
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Haiku:
Duck house and loo seats
No shame at being found out
MPs say sorry
- Stewart Andersen, London, UK, 28/05/2009 09:15
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Weary, wonderful,
City of dreams to be,
Summer sun finds a home.
- Clare, Herald Island, New Zealand, 28/05/2009 09:06
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Mince and tatties
Boiling on an ancient stove
My favourite meal
- Kenny Harris, Caterham, Surrey. England, 27/05/2009 22:42
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Tourists, looking up
Big Ben, so tall, familiar
Miss the Queen driving by.
- Kay, los angeles, California, 27/05/2009 21:31
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