In August the Poetry Workshop at the Carmelite Centre practised haiku. Participants produced poems which were then discussed in the group online. Here are the haiku by Philip Harvey. Philip titles this series ‘Seventeen Signs’, seventeen 17-syllable lines using public lockdown signs in italics.
winter sunrise
play area closed
plane flight a pastime of
the past
the working week again
breakfast
take away only
online headlines
woman alone on train alone
stay home save lives
on her phone alone
morning magpies
one point five metres apart
peck for nature strip
worms
wide blue sky
thank you for your understanding at this
time
empty road
once quick brown stick
went
click and collect
in the maw of the jaw-drop dog
carpark vacant grids
storewide reductions
carpark line ups with
symptoms
holdups at the bank
please wear a face covering
speechless in small groups
chairs stacked lights out
thank you for dining in with us
bain-marie deep cleaned
leaves curl in the wind
follow directional arrows
assemble rest
computer non-stop verbals
face masks required
its fingertip worlds
highway with nobody
shop capacity is eight
apartments of one
they glow in the day
wash your hands regularly
they glow in the night
winter sunset
sorry we’ve had to close again
night a place to dream
staring at the known world
for
more information visit
knownworld dot com
curfew
etiquette
keep your distance where you can
you
and the gatepost
heavy
rain
your wellbeing is our priority
trees
take hits
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