life propped up
by memories
and denials

This is not one of my haiku but it appeared in Blithe Spirit  (2018) Volume 28 Number 2 under the column 'Tricky Haiku' where Colin Blundell invites comment on these. I suggested:

life
propped up by memories
and denials

Blithe Spirit (2018) Volume 28 Number 3 page 14

my mother’s life
reduced
to two folders
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reduced
to two folders
my mother's life

in the nursing home

Coronation Street

as my mother passes

tribute festival
more corpulent versions
of the real thing

charity muggers
somehow I feel
less charitable

blue sky
with a hint
of winter
if that was it
...if only

only one fly

as I close

the summerhouse door

rowan berries

waiting for blackbirds

- the pecking order

hosepipe ban
watering his garden
at midnight

young ladies whistling

at my naked torso

...sarcasm?

Chernobyl disaster 

decades after 

still counting Geigers 

surrounded by flowers

the Buddha

holds back a sneeze

reading obituaries 

with birth dates

after mine

First Nation people
selling culture
by the hour

equine erection
my wife glances at me
disappointed

Published by Poetry Pea 17 June 2019