The Tour of Random Places
(Inland UK Haiku)
Village at Peace
Shrivenham where calm
Fills the streets quaint safe carefree
Don't tell the tourists
All Change
Solihull where roots
Deepen into history yet
Investment changes
Pot Luck
Stoke breathes culture
The sense of community
Impoverished, proud
Scotland the Prood
Windswept wild and dreich
Wicht and prood - I've a muckle
Fainess for Scotland
Proclaimin'!
Bathgate Proclaimed in
Pensefu sang - Community
No more? Ach, never!
O'tha Borders
Selkirk, haim o'ma
Nana - lassie o'tha Borders
Pride in every smile
England's Scottish Steel
Corby steels itself
Industry's now sadly Scotched
Yet Pole Fair-awa!
Nottingham Sups
From the forest to
A host of merry folks in
Historic hostelries
Old Newark
A castle stands, a glance
To Cromwell's past, drifts down the
Trent, flowing history
Stainless City
Sheffield polished steel
Stainless heritage a clan
And cutlery clang
Suffolk Comfort
Suffolk peaceful air
Hanchet End where? Family, home
Relaxation waiting
So It Does
South of Belfast a
Friendly welcome awaits in
Banbridge - so it does
Norn Iron Rises
Viewed from verdant hill
Northern Ireland rises - a
Homeland and sanctuary
Peace in London
London's constant hum
But peace is found - canal coots
Ducks the dusk sunset
Shop Til You Drop
To the Village! Shop
Off the rails, arrive by rail
Fly home? Ahh...Bicester!
Posh Diversity
Peterborough Posh
Play next the Nene, city flows
With diversity
Steyning the Landscape
Where the Adur flows
Through Steyning's Downs, eager to reach
Shoreham-by-Sea
Worcester Sauce
When will Worcester bells
Cathedral cease? When the
Severn flows no more
Northern City Devils
Civic pride and fierce
Mancunian tribes - Northern!
Whether blue or red
You're Bard
Sonnets by Avon
Shakespeare pervades each daily
Sight and Stratford sound
Peaks and Troughs
Steep peaks and summer
Highs tourists flock in hordes
Lake District adored
Snowdon Pit Stop
I queued for the loo
In Snowdon's summit café with
Grannies and Mountaineers
As Steep As It Looks
Mam Tor looked down on
Winnats Pass as cyclists climbed
On exhausted legs
Hills and Vales
Warm breeze in the Vale
Of Evesham yet Malvern's Peak
Riven with cold gales
Pen Y Flocks
Brecon flock the sheep
Will follow to Pen Y Fan
Long line to the top
Ox/Bridge
Joined together - an
Academic rivalry
Oxford/Cambridge blues
#haiku written in response to 3 word answers from many friends to the question, "Describe where you live in 3 words."
