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Category Archives: #HaikuReview

I watch a movie
That I have never seen then
Review through haiku

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Onward

Posted on February 29, 2020 by carltellstales
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A right proper quest
Of magic, adventure and
A face full of tears.

#HaikuReview | Carl Burkitt

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Late Night

Posted on February 16, 2020 by carltellstales
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There was…bits…and stuff.
I liked…jokes…something missing…
The…John Lithgow though.

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Thunder Road

Posted on February 16, 2020 by carltellstales
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The film’s opening
Monologue is perfection.
My eyes were oceans.

#HaikuReview | Carl Burkitt

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Hairspray

Posted on February 16, 2020 by carltellstales
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Velma Von Tussle,
Miss Wimsey, Seaweed J Stubbs.
The writer wrote NAMES.

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Parasite

Posted on February 9, 2020 by carltellstales
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There was…and then…and…
Then what about the…with the…
And then the…there was…

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1917

Posted on January 11, 2020 by carltellstales
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They should’ve called it
Stressfulteen Stressfulteen. Christ.
Bloody stressful…teen.

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Jojo Rabbit

Posted on January 5, 2020 by carltellstales
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Taika Waititi
Is on fire at the moment.
Properly aflame.

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Little Women

Posted on January 3, 2020 by carltellstales
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Ruddy good film, that.
A right, rollicking, bloody,
Ruddy good film, that.

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Knives Out

Posted on December 5, 2019 by carltellstales
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A fun whodunit.
A whofunit if you will…
You won’t? Fair enough.

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Official Secrets

Posted on November 9, 2019 by carltellstales
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Good, but the couple
Never had a consistent
Side of the bed. Odd.

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  • Bloody hell
  • Having a suddenly urgent, and surprisingly vocal, wee in a public toilet
  • The people who stare at stars
  • 8:00 AM
  • Bullet point personality
  • Force
  • Sarah
  • Company by Tim Key
  • Sunday roast
  • There’s a cup of tea sitting on my desk teasing me with energy and warmth
  • Missing the point
  • There you are again
  • Good morning
  • There you go
  • Fight
  • Deep Blue Sea by Louis Jenkins
  • Sunday
  • Ending
  • Hello, little chin
  • Aliens by Tim Key
  • Where am I?
  • Trying new things
  • Detective duos I could be a part of
  • What is it for you?
  • Boring
  • Things a baby who has been fed and changed and had a good nap might still be crying about but we’ll never really know
  • I bet
  • Staring at a painting I’ve never really looked at before
  • Just a game
  • Punny
  • If I was an animal
  • Christmas Poetry by John Hegley
  • Moon poem
  • Summer Stage
  • To be honest
  • Smile
  • My hand
  • A bus shelter being replaced
  • Untitled by James Mark Miller
  • Longer and longer
  • The ingredient I most relate to in salt and vinegar Pringles
  • Sad?
  • Who knows
  • Arms
  • Bamp by Jonathan Edwards
  • I am a retired lumberjack
  • Each one
  • Watching
  • A Christmas tree in an open top sports car
  • A tree surgeon arrived unannounced
  • The rain is dripping
  • Always the same answer
  • I saw a few leaves earlier
  • Wild
  • The last time I saw a man going to work on a train
  • Nipping out on a Saturday to buy a 4-way extension lead, a Magic Mop refill, an expanding dish rack (with utensil pot) and a stiff-bristled scrubbing brush
  • At the end of the day
  • I knew
  • A man remembering a boy thinking about another boy
  • Catch by Matt Harvey
  • Delicious
  • Delia Smith yelling ‘let’s be having you’ on the pitch at half time to Norwich City football fans
  • A poem for Matthew McConaughey
  • And you’ll miss it
  • Elvis Presley in a chip shop
  • Vigour
  • I will eventually be everything awake
  • He
  • Teenage Son by Jonathan Edwards
  • In
  • What Does A Baby Think It Is? by Carl Burkitt
  • What I’m thinking
  • Too many legs
  • Fog
  • The morning after
  • Homemade
  • Don’t ask me why
  • Lazy fingers
  • Fate by Dan Rhodes
  • The things we get
  • Opening lines of poems I’ll never finish
  • Normal
  • Voyeur
  • Zookeeper
  • Stuff just always happens
  • Rubbish
  • The Orange by Wendy Cope
  • Coin toss
  • A mess behind the door
  • Desperate teeth
  • Plotting
  • Visions
  • Laughing by Dan Rhodes
  • Year after year
  • And sigh
  • Kit man
  • Horses may bite or kick
  • My heart wants to say windows
  • Cameo
  • Countryside sheep are fluffy footballs
  • I was gone
  • Ace
  • I’m my PJs
  • Size doesn’t matter
  • Upstairs
  • Reading poems to you while you’re nodding off on my chest
  • How can I help?
  • No more than five school children allowed in this Post Office at a time
  • No idea
  • Yoga For Cows by Liam McCormick
  • Best friends
  • Preference
  • Arms
  • Enjoy!
  • A seat in a cinema
  • Brighton on a Tuesday
  • One little hair
  • I Decided To Stop Therapy by Joe Dunthorne
  • Today I went for a walk
  • Flowers on good days
  • I just decided to take it easy
  • Ancient trust
  • We’d like to ask a few questions about your experience
  • Out of stock
  • The worst day of all time
  • Trick
  • Things strangers might say about me when I am the subject of people watching
  • Who would play you in the movie of your life?
  • A couple of hours ago
  • Head
  • Packing
  • Every word
  • If I could write lyrics like Ray Davies in the second verse of Autumn Almanac
  • Hard shoulders
  • A couple of weeks ago
  • Ride
  • It hasn’t really
  • All I could think about
  • Don’t waste it
  • Penned in
  • Desperate
  • The worst
  • Lemonade and gravy
  • A face that isn’t mine
  • Two friends and a dog called Pigs
  • New skin
  • Sparrows And Mortar by Rob Auton
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