• FOOTBALL ON ROBBEN ISLAND HAIKUS
    The Beautiful Game Gave freedom-fighters respite In freedom’s struggle. Apartheid’s victims, In Robben Island’s prison Played the Peoples’ Game. It was an escape, But also an expression: The need for new rules. When Rainbow colours Pass the ball in harmony: The Beautiful Game.
  • Nil Nil Haiku
    France v Uruguay, Irritable vowel syndrome: But no end result.
  • Chris Waddle Paradox Haiku
    The word “quality”, Chris Waddle’s constant cliché, Is not quality.
  • Haiku 9
    “Nelson Mandela.” The whole wide world shouts your name: The end of Babel.
  • “Bloomin’ Football: A Football Pilgrim’s Progress
    “Bloomin’ Football”, a World Cup floral festival, Early June, at St. Mary Magdalene’s: World Cup flags draped from yew tree to porch, Countries portrayed in displays of flowers, Firstly, Brazil, created by Sarah from the Glebe allotments, A deep ivy green evocation of the lustrous rain forest, Clematis, Hosta, and a profusion of wild flowers. […]