I flew down from Edinburgh yesterday – I'd been visiting the Fringe festival –  on the flight-path to Norwich than runs down the east coast and goes over my old hometown of Scarborough. I had a window seat and my observations resulted in this haiku and tanka...


4 miles high, view so clear –
a speedboat’s wake seen
circling the headland

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against the clouds
3 concentric circles
each one a perfect rainbow
surrounding the plane’s silhouette
like a roundel