GOOD FRIDAY

on the cross
the world in darkness
scourge and blood
tears and sobs
the disciples mourn and wait
for the prophesy

HOLY WEEK

Holy Week is the most important time in the Christian liturgical calendar.
For those who observe the solemnity of the Crucifixion on Good Friday and the Resurrection on Easter Sunday...Joy and  Blessings ... Happy Easter !

they rolled back the stone
christus resurrexit vere
the tomb was empty

Heeding Haiku with Chevrefeuille - MLMM

Midweek Motif - Poets United

hot cross buns
ice cream in coffee
the sunday paper
chocolate  easter eggs
diving through waves

fruit cake at christmas
a baileys  nightcap
fresh crusty bread
fragrant laundry

swimming at high tide
in the ocean pool at night

fresh flowers and herbs
listening to jazz
gin and tonic
the smell of dawn
on the beach

my  life
a treasure trove of treats

Haiku Horizons

Painting by Debra Hurd


pay day is friday
drinks flowers and rock oysters
jazz at the basement

just heard on the news
the basement is closing down
sydney's best jazz club




poco a poco
they destroy our heritage
and its old buildings

SHAME

Mr. Blue - Michael Franks For The Weekend

SATURDAY AFTERNOON

potting herbs
sweet basil and chives
on my little balcony
the waves pound the shore
the beach is closed
michael franks
serenading me
with caramel tones
on this lovely autumn afternoon
when i finish
i will sit
drink in all this beauty
with a tipple and sigh

Sunday's Whirligig 154

This week's words come from " Brantwood Senilia" by Paul Batchelor

dangerous friends illness care giving morbid
led daylight room  leave eight trance


dangerous illness
eight friends leave
her mind led
by thoughts
morbid and trance like
dissolve
as daylight streams
through the hospital room




her care giver arrives

Tea For One

colour pinkens life
in a pretty china cup
the tea tastes better
it's a salve for depression
a balm to soothe a sad heart

Midweek Motif  - Poets United

Shadorma

pull and tug
ongoing battle
mind and heart
blind freddy
could even see that
she was deluding herself

a failed hope
last attempt to find
that someone
a soul mate
crossing her pathway
bearing peace lilies not hurt

Poets United
Poetry Pantry # 395

Artist In Search Of A Canvas

Cinquain

a scream
to see 'the scream'
painted on a bottom
artist has run out of canvas
again

flowers
english roses
a better choice me thinks
not so scary for the horses



o dear

Midweek Motif - Poets United

Bugbear

short hairdressers 
a persistent irritant
to long hair'd ladies

Haiku Horizons

Sunday's Whirligig 152

THIS WEEK'S WORDS come from "The Hand-Carved Loon" by Robert Adamson: 

murk bottom made poem bird balsa
things sleek head glides waves cuts


the bird glides
over the sleek waves




he made a balsa sculpture
that reminded her
of that bird
it was lightweight and free
just like him

keep your head
slipping on
the green murk at the bottom
of the rock pool means
tropical ulcers from cuts

not the time
for things to go wrong girly
you're on your own now

Afternoon Swim

it's  autumn now
still swimming weather
the waves dark blue
furl into a pale turquoise
with white froth

the shag swims near me
catches a small fish
unbothered by my presence
my only company today
the best this week so far


i bow to the sky
i beam smiles to the waves
my redeemer lives





Heeding Haiku with Chevrefeuille  - MLMM

Money

money makes the world go around
it speaks every language
the root of all evil is and always has been
the  powerful driver of mankind

money can buy almost everything
everyone has a price
the few who cannot be bought 
the most dangerous people on earth
are and will be crushed  at every opportunity
by the powerful status quo





mammon is alive and well
as yet he has not yet managed to
squeeze himself through
the eye of the needle

dying his hair orange
to disguise himself as a camel
fools no one

Midweek Motif  - Poets United

Bonus Wordle " Sam's Choice " - MLMM

virtue void shimmer grove tonal burgundy 
sweep hurry foot kingfisher nintendo bridge

sam was always in a hurry
to sweep the kitchen
and  get the washing up done quickly
it made him feel virtuous

he preferred to play with the kids
colouring in  a kingfisher drawing
in shimmering tones of burgundy
or playing hopscotch in the orange grove
mastering nintendo games  or  learning  bridge




he liked hopscotch
hopping on one foot
it filled a void in his psyche
a latent desire to be captain hook
the wooden legged pirate from peter pan
just a big kid really




 

Surfers

out there every day
in all kinds of weather
rain hail or shine

Haiku Horizons

Taylor Swift - You Belong With Me For The Weekend

the words blurred into one another
she could hardly believe
what she was reading
it was unexpected and
so much more than hoped for

in the past
every yellowed page
like the one before
proved to be
a big disappointment

First Line Friday - MLMM