Haikus
Haikus about everything and nothing for no particular reason.
Alan Shearer
Metal worker's son
Gave us reason to believe
Now Alan from work
All The Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes
Dodgy name aside
It's a god damn masterpiece
L.A. ennui rock
Amsterdam
City of my heart
Have you found its hidden gem?
Magic hotdog stand
Back In Black
They'd just buried Bon
All is fair in rock'n'roll
The perfect tribute
Being a football fan
Small moments of joy
Punctuate the years of pain
Just often enough
Being colourblind
I can see colours
Just don't ask me to name them
That game is no fun
Ben Arfa vs Bolton
Pace, power, menace
Tim Ream still wakes in a sweat
Ball caressing net
Big Dan Burn vs Bilbao
Trademark salmon leap
Bends it quite improbably
Using just his head
Borboletta
The sound of summer
While at university
Expanding my mind
Brazil 1-7 Germany
Football become pain
Hello darkness my old friend
I can't look away
Cafe Latte
Why would you ruin
Beautiful black perfection?
Life giving java
Cats
Wonderful creatures
With one annoying foible
They piss on the bed
Coffee
Catalyst for life
I was late to the party
Lost time to make up
Dogs
Truly man's best friend
With one significant fault
They leave us too soon
Dreams
More of a feeling
Than a tangible vision
Fading instantly
Early Starts
When the sun comes up
You have to embrace the day
We don't get many
Fabrice Pancrate vs Watford
Gets it, back to goal
Mullers it in off the bar!
Instant cult hero
Grey
Quite underrated
Classy, in its diff'rent shades
Colour of wisdom
Hannah Wicklund
A bomb through the breeze
Of mass-manufactured beats
One girl and her axe
Haris Vukcic pass (Newcastle reserves vs Man U reserves ~2013)
Eighty yards at least
Absolutely no backlift
Lands on a pin head
Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
I like to pretend
The fifth book never happened
Then it's perfection
It's Hard
I found this ok
In a peculiar way
Not their finest work
Jellyfish
Drifting webs of pain
Why am I so drawn to you?
You so drawn to me?
Joe Walsh
Pure entertainment
A force of nature on the stage
Moon's party equal
Led Zeppelin I
The greatest intro
In rock'n'roll history
Bonzo on the dials
Led Zeppelin II
From blues to hard rock
That Moby Dick drum solo
Busts my gut each time
Led Zeppelin III
Driving viking rock
Beautiful acoustic songs
Zeppelin complete
Led Zeppelin IV
Has their epic song
Don't pretend you don't know it
"When The Levee Breaks"
London
Diff'rent to the North
You can be just who you are
Without being judged
Manflu
Feeling quite muddled
Hot and cold and hot again
But I'll be ok
Misery - Stephen King
Do you like tension?
A claustrophobic setting?
This book is for you
Osula vs Man U
Gets it on the right
Bamboozles defence and himself
Curls in from distance
Paw Patrol
It's quite impressive
Monotony and nonsense
In equal measure
Shearer vs Everton
Shola sets him up
Absolute thunderbastard
Cannonball volley
Shearer vs Portsmouth
Shola backheels it
Shearer at the Gallowgate!
And the record falls
Shields Ferry
Get it while you can
The government won't fund it
Splitting us further
Sir Bobby Robson
Our fav'rite son
Though he belonged to the world
Transcended divides
Spiders
Freaky little dudes
Fascinate me from afar
Try and let them be
St James' Park
Fifteen years' worship
My cathedral on the hill
I'll be back one day
Steve Vai
Technically the best
My ears can't keep up with him
Yet so musical
Sun
Missed in the winter
Embraced in the brief summer
At least in the North
Surfing
I'm so bad at it
Yet it makes me feel so good
The water's healing
Ted Lasso
Does nobody else
Find the football scenes jarring?
Still hard not to love
The best wave I ever caught
Double overhead!
Flying left across the face!
...2ft Hawai'ian
Tyne & Wear Metro
Five trains in service
To carry thousands of folks
For a small fortune
Wind
Nobody likes you
Unless you're light and offshore
Holding up the surf
Woltemade (p) vs Forest
Such a languid stroll
Followed by an exocet
Right in the top bins
Writing Haikus
Writing for no one
Building up a library
Never to be read