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A new day a new haiku
If you want to shine
You need hard work, polish and
Plenty of mistakes
Of many reasons
To let the grass grow wilder
This is my favourite
If you could bottle
These long summer holidays
They’re a rare vintage
Together we ate
Blackberries in the early morning sun
Now they are all gone
Just another leaf
Turning light into sugar
More than I can do
Let it wash downstream
Carried away to the sea
Far away from me
Rain smattered roses
Their smeared and spattered petals
Scattered in the lawn
Let all my troubles
Wash over the waterfall
Crash into pieces
On the correct path
Wherever you are going
You’re already there
Packed like peas in pods
Bursting like bees in a bush
Squeezed like squid in squash
What a privilege
To have lived another day
And feel the sun’s rays
Lie in the clover
Keeping close to solid ground
Still ready to bolt
This is a sunset
Why are we sitting inside,
Days wasting away?
How do honey bees
Turn nectar into sweetness?
Do they need to dance?
Ten people possess
One hundred fingers and toes
And many light hands
The rain ever falls
Mixing with sunlight and air
And green overflows
The verdant summer
Is starting to give way to
Faded autumn hues
Lost in the long grass
Hedgehogs and meadow withies
Trundle through the brush
Peeping peering out
Between the broken branches
Fickle fragile fawn
To become a moth
The caterpillar must grow
Into his true form
Nobody wants you
But still you get everywhere
Much maligned cushag
The evening breaks up
In a thousand splintered clouds
We too turn to dust
The dreaded mirror
Exposing my every flaw
Things I can’t ignore
Walking the thin line
Between beauty and broken
Where the best songs hide
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