Haiga Archive
18 September 2009
Invited Artist
Poem Text or Excerpt:
My friend and I explore the playground at the end of my street. The old equipment has suddenly become punctuated by strange bright contraptions. We take turns to climb inside a mounted tractor tyre while the other spins it around. Then swing in and out on a large, rotating kite. But we still end up on old favorites. We scramble over monkey bars, turn dizzy on the merry-go-round and scream down the highest slide…
white cockatoos
crown the pine trees….
summer nuts
Parking my car years later in front of the old playground.
I stare out across an ocean of neatly mown grass with one small island of equipment.
broken nest
the peanut package warns
it might contain nuts
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Publication Notes:
Haiku first published in Haiku Dreaming Australia.
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Invited Artist
Keywords:
friend, playground, equipment, tires, swing, kite, merry-go-round, round, objects, slide, scream, cockatoos, birds, trees, nest, broken, peanut, nuts, play, human, child, adult, memory, joy, happiness, emotion, activity, haibun, photo representational, closeup, color, human, activity, th