Memorial Haiku…..Our Restless Planet…..BBC Pics of Scotland……
by Bernie Bell - 09:06 on 02 August 2025
Memorial Haiku…..
Last weekend my Alma Mater, Lampeter University, held a reunion - a particularly poignant reunion as the College is losing its students to Carmarthen….….
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1d44kzw950o.amp
I couldn’t go to the reunion - I don’t travel at all these days - but the ‘SDUC: 1975 and all that….‘ FB page was full of photos and memories of a good get-together.
Pete Bagshaw set a task for an Eng. Lit. student to write a Haiku about the re-union and then proceeded to write one himself, which I think is absolutely excellent – catches the situation perfectly.
“Summer reunion
College friends in Autumn years
Relive our Spring days”
I often post friend Bart's Fraikus (Haikus written on a Friday) in m’blog……
http://www.spanglefish.com/berniesblog/blog.asp?blogid=17188
It’s a complex form which, to be honest, I can't get to grips with. I'm always amazed at how Bart encapsulates so much in so few words - and the same is true.... of Pete’s Haiku!
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Our Restless Planet…..
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BBC Pics of Scotland…..
25th July – 1st August 2025…..
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgjy76z5ygqo
Steph Lamb’s pic. brought back good memories of Scalpay Island….
https://theorkneynews.scot/2018/06/01/the-western-isles-or-there-and-back-again-vi/
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