POEM STARTER

Write a series of five Haikus that span five years of time following an important event.

Try to show how emotions or opinions change over time with each poem.

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Poetry

Humour

2024 Blue walls are crumbling How quickly the conjurors are melting away 2025 Budget papers leaked insiders Not wholly true but close enough 2026 Half term Oranges And other even more cumbersome metaphors 2027 Blue walls are still dissolving with toxic microplasticity 2028 Five years pass, sheep are grazing in what seem mostly greener fields

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Chris Hemingway

Poet, songwriter, two published pamphlets (‘paperfolders’, ‘party in the Diaryhouse’)