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
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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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"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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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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