a haiku's brief...

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A haiku's brief  is

to evoke wonder in three 

lines. A haiku's brief.

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5-7-5

the ironic Samaritan...

I found God last week.
He was confused and wandering the streets.


So I took him in.



Just as billions of gullible people have been taken in by him over the years.



It's what I do...

hanging baskets - the case for...

Pity the death row inmate who can appeal only until the bitter end -
a basket, once hung, continues to appeal for weeks.

Respect...

social work? - ah, yes, I remember it well...

- the natural world -

a man beating his woman
was as a butterfly
beating its wings...




- or, as someone once never said, "you can't beat nature - but everything else is fair game" -



("he's lovely when he's not drunk")

family trees...

I'm descended from a long line of haiku writers.


Or should
that be three
short lines?...


('17 Syllables plus' re-mix)

the lean machine*...

My sister tips the scales at 15 stone.
When she tips them a tad more, she's
only 14 stone 8...


(*it's knowing how much to lean, apparently)


- do not attempt this with digital scales -

when absence makes the heart grow fonder...

if distance is no
object, then who am I to
object to distance?...



- putting the 'far' into caring far more...



('17 Syllables plus' re-mix)

home sweet home (size 6)

There was an old woman who lived in a shoe -
And, boy, was she happy!...
"You just can't beat'em! -
proper homes with proper heels!"...


(she'd only ever lived in flats before)

modesty becomes me...

So many people I come across look upon me as a perfect stranger.

Flattering, of course, but hard to live up to...



- though it sure beats trying to be a perfect gentleman, which wasn't always easy (I may be a bit of a loner now, but I still believe in maintaining standards)

Walkers Crisps: fast food? - hardly...

Anyway, I'm not a great fan of fast food -
except for a certain type of bean, of course.

The runner...

unrequited love...

"t'wasn't the rose that 

 gave me a prick, t'was the prick 

 that gave me a rose"... 

I guess she means me - I should have known 

she was more of a rocks 'n' chocs sort of girl... 

(17 Syllables)

dancing in the street...(with apologies)

FIGURE SKATING n. ice skating in which the skater traces outlines of selected patterns... 

NIGURE SKATING n. as above, but on black ice. 

- ironic, really: a PC's the one place you needn't be...

(A joke that can only be written, and never told aloud. May God forgive me)

My wife's a rolypolyglot -
that's fat in anyone's language.


Well, in quite a few, anyway...

the 70th anniversary of the Blitz...

When he realized how expensive a long war might turn out to be, Hitler thought he'd try to raze some capital. By opting for London, he was indeed asking for it.

And he got what he was asking for. Eventually...

September 7, 1940.

turns out the left hand's the right hand, and the right hand's the wrong hand!...

I tried my hand at ventriloquy yesterday -
but, boy, was I crap...
"Try the other hand, dummy." Said the dummy.
Bingo!

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I tried my hand at ventriloquy yesterday. I was
rubbish. So I tried the other hand...

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the passion for travel...

      ----- A FLIGHT OF FANTASY (now boarding) -----

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I like to arrive at airports with an hour in hand:
it's cheaper than luggage, you can pack a lot into it, and
best of all, the customs won't make you unpack it...

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(mind you, if you can lay your hands on a case that's been thrown out of court...)

...anon...anon...anon...