Haikus

I thought, Why not blog something seasonal over Christmas?  Cannot currently lay hands on Christmas poem from mid-90s, but here are some haikus that I wrote at around that time.  They were published in Cous-cous in 1995.


STATUS

So much self-deceit's
called in to guard that story
anything stands now.


NEW HOBBY I

Worst Christmas -- unreal
as the first dream episode
in ageing sitcoms.


NEW HOBBY II

Doubly sad to hear
the old reasonable voice
used for this madness.


POSITIVE HAIKU

It's not wishful thought
or a verbal sleight of hand;
see, the new house works!


My life is a lot less glum now than it was in the mid-90s.  Current work in progress, or projected, is for the 'What's your history?' competition from Holland Park Press.  A competition entry I wrote under similar circs last year, and entered by email from my brother's house on New Year's Eve, was a great success; I'm not expecting that history will repeat itself, but I can have fun imagining.