Sep

. . . supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! ◠‿◠

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Police arrested two kids yesterday, one was drinking battery acid, the other was eating fireworks. They charged one and let the other one off - Tommy Cooper

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tombstone angels

and hungry ghosts. . .

the nights are drawing in

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I went to buy some camouflage trousers the other day but I couldn’t find any - Tommy Cooper

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under the spoils of England

moles and mushrooms are busy

again. . .

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we can, and do, respond to haikai by appreciation of a tacit dimension. . .

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in pre-electric days

whale oil lit this owl's house-

late summer evensong

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Indian summer-

school gate mothers

in pyjamas

prints 5

shunga-

falling leaves

tantalise

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early autumn-

a piece of fabric

losing its rag

Q: "Why not show, rather than tell?" - Myron Lysenko

A: writing for the masses as an experiment is one reason . how would you (or other members) do L1 - bearing in mind L2-3 is defining L1 and inviting visualisation (showing a named season by allusion) ? - jp

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dog tales 1: we had dogs once that spat out worming pills neatly during any wolfing session and they could detect prawns (which we got free and they hated) mixed in at the atomic level

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last second

of summertime-

stop watch

I N F O G R A F I C A L U D E

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the seasons

all around our hats

in space

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"I swear by the night when it draws in, and by the dawn when it exhales (Surah At-Takwir, 17-18)

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sitting cross-legged

on a moonlit toadstool. . .

in a puddle

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chilly fall dawn

the cows and I exhale

also

FOLLOW THE MONEY

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glowing

with pride-

Tokyo, 2020

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formally polite works and avoids bad karma and cultivates the soul ? it always works if you mean it . formality is armour and implies the strength of military restraint with options - asshole behavior is always weakness . having delivered the message - walk away . (what they think is their penalty and education)

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a fly

looks in my glasses

to see

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sometimes a stick insect is just a stick. . .

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selling its body to the night

next door's cat sings

an autumn lament

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how soon love becomes a commodity to be traded after the honeymoon period fades with the dawn

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summer hols

gone la la land. . .

to conker time

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the idea of personal and social karma is one way of being positive about options - we all have crosses to bear as that comes with the territory

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last summer's fly

a bit elderly

now

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the simplest form of seasonal reference (which sometimes works as a kigo also) is to simply name the season

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shopping days-

how many sleeps left

prior autumn's end?

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After 36 years of space travel, NASA has confirmed that Voyager 1 has left our solar system and had entered interstellar space. - Daily Mail

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scaling the pond

with a skipping stone-

fallen leaves

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"Researchers who discovered that the longer a cow has been lying down, the more likely that cow will soon stand up, but that once a cow stands up, you cannot easily predict how soon that cow will lie down again." - Improbable.com

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drinking rain

from a field tap-

fool's autumn

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