As we head into the weekend, it’s the perfect time to slip into that haiku headspace… here’s a few poems from John Wainwright, Tamara Fletcher and Jonathan Hadwen to help you on your way.
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44th k.
the iPod has no song
for this
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suburb of sailboats
neighbours
compare masts
Jonathan Hadwen
[photograph by Andrew Phillips]
length of her pink tongue
a standard measure of happiness
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magenta t-shirt
a Sunday caricature
of himself
Tamara Fletcher
[photograph by John Wainwright]
one curlew
alone
the widow learns to walk again
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bird of paradise bows to the noisy mynah
John Wainwright