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Jurasic Haikus

The Spinnaker Tower,

An engineering miracle-

For retail therapy.

At Pizza Express

No poems, just a menue

For the holiday.

On European alcohol limits

Italy allows

An extra bottle each week;

Viva Italia!

The bed is lumpy,

The coat hangers are missing

But we both slept well.

Pip, pip, pip, pip, pip

Off goes next door's smoke alarm;

Good job it's not ours.

It rained this morning

So I took my mac, but now

Swelter in the sun.

Junior disco

I cannot see to

Read or write, and the noise

Blots out all thought.

The beach, sans fossils,

Is silent, but the swallows

Swarm in happy clouds.

3.15 am

A young sea-gull calls

Like a squeaking gate up on

The caravan roof.

Austen & Palgrave,

Tennyson & John Fowles

All lived in Lyme Regis.

If I canot see 

The Long Man for the darkness,

Maybe he's not there?

Brian Hick August 2011  on holiday with our granddaughter

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