28 November 2025

Our Boomerang

Leaf 223 – Looking Back

 

S.R. Badmin - Sallow and Blackthorn (Ladybird Book of Trees, 1963)


This is a memory of summers spent in the countryside when I was a kid.

 

 

A week later,

finding our boomerang

– lost in the tall grass.

 

  

 

This poem was originally written and posted on Bluesky in response to a #dailyhaikuprompt: 'tall grass.'