Haiku by Walter Penna

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20230307

try another line

see if spinnerbait catches

verse in black water

20230223

Eastern or Western

soup is soup hunger hunger

guilt feeds on judgement

20230107

Walter's Room*

my namesake's room sits

from where see across the park

as if with his eyes

*Currently the Poet's Room, made available to local poets at the Jacobean Forty Hall, Enfield, UK. Walter was the last occupant of this room up under the eaves when the estate was privately owned.

20230212

no dishwasher here

crockery flows in the sink

thought finds its own way

20230117

a dog called Riley

acting hot water bottle

scooches some comfort

Katunga

pale 3rd cut Lucerne

these square-shouldered pasture blondes

await collection

20230119

offduty nurses

swarm cling-ride on running boards

to Mount Tambourine

20230220

empty bowl remains

ready soup remains unmoved

eyes consume such hope

20230115

rows red tipup seats

crowd the overcrowded aisle

leave narrow passage

20230226

from its high dark branch

loud music finds non-dancers

with vulture shoulders

20230301

semi-precious gems

now mislaid Apache tears

mock my sense of loss

20230201

Imbolc

A single haiku

A plural (I drop the s)

But the day lengthens

20230228

Leap Year bides its time

sudden measured proposals

need some other spring

20230227

the time to write comes

when a present tense swings by

lays it on the line

20230225

ladle dips dips stops

soupseller goes to buy silk

the heat is turned off

20230211

in the Stallion Bar

old French Legionnaires sit talk -

fish swim in the tank

 

Walter Penna, the Cornish poet resident in London, considers himself Cornish European, writes haiku and other poetic forms. Influences – Bashô, Robert Frost, Ogden Nash, Hilaire Belloc, Chekov and Théophile Gautier among a lifetime of others. haikua

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