Even when the sun
Breaks though ever thicker clouds
Still the rain will fall
A new day a new haiku

Even when the sun
Breaks though ever thicker clouds
Still the rain will fall

Shouts echo cold Styx
Bounce around the blackened bricks
Carry candlesticks

Bramble and bracken
Reclaiming what was stolen
Slow and steady war

My toes start to freeze
The rain can’t fall endlessly
Summer sets us free

Look me in the eye
Lift your face up to the sky
Don’t tell me you’re shy

No acquiescence
No conflict. No distractions
No compromises

Here we can shelter
Out of the rain, but we can’t
Escape rising floods

As days grow longer
Snowdrops snatch the open sky
While they have the chance

Stuck at the start line
Jumping for the lowest branch
Falling back again

Holly leaves turn sharp
When they are cut back or grazed
I try to stay calm

Milky fog drags past
Tangled briars can’t hold it back
I pull myself through

Frozen fields forlorn
Between bramble and hawthorn
The first light of dawn
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