walnuts in the shell the whole bag tossed on the lawn gray and black squirrels scratching sound porch door the squirrel teeth to chew more pantry is empty squirrels lined a row on the patio long bench the fans of the house old peanut butter tails shaking the eyes bugging squirrel siesta hundreds of squirrels with plans to pirate the house squirrel brigands rise 4.1 10/8 © Brian Peter Hodgkinson
Category Archives: haiku
It Started With One Bag
night we
night-wee wump splash faaaak! robe with fury hen wet tail ring vert rooster smack .6 6/6 © Brian Peter Hodgkinson
[don’t swallow their truck]
jawing on the truck dropped by flocks that twerp you suck self hampers the stuck not siesta duck pummeled by billy buck boned muckety-muck pedants run amok nabbling like the woodchuck with pluck, buck the schmuck but tail do not tuck or you, they punt as their puck to hock round their ruck 2.3 10/7 © Brian Peter Hodgkinson rhyme
Spring Sun
the dark spring morning ambulance siren screaming hoarfrost drops flower spring birds tap the glass nesting grass and twigs falling the icu bed the lungs filled with phlegm septic shock from pneumonia the spring sun lifts up 1 foot in earth-bed pipes of fluids pierce the veins breathing the spring day 3.4 10/7 © Brian Peter Hodgkinson
Vigilance Haiku
sheep lay down the lambs mid pastures of tall blue grass the shepherd eyes bear