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A new day a new haiku
Hang in the darkness
Fading in the cold night air
To obscurity
How long will I roam
In the purple Midland hills
Til I find a home
Fields frozen in time
But who will be here next year?
Melt into history
How do cold fingers
Creep and crawl so cautiously
Into the thin air?
Seasons cycle on
Bound in their ancient routines
Why ever can’t I?
When your last sun sets
What will you have left behind?
And where will you go?
As our lives lengthen
Such complex threads intertwine
Embrace the chaos
Silver meltwater
Slowly succumbs to the sun
Cleansing your grey limbs
What is a regret?
Is it just a mistake? Or
Does it still cause pain?
Here we stand on guard
Watching over the valley
These short human lives
When westerly winds
Weave whiley winter weather
Whither will we wend?
Even dead leaves, on
Drab dull dismal deary days
Look bright and cheerful
Just for a moment
Everything froze like a stone
Now we are melting
Over bleak fields
And through all the wild hedgerows
Let your cold wind blow
From crimson to gold
Last year’s growth scratches across
My evergreen eyes
Every new day dawns
Over yesterday’s ashes
Phoenix arising
Lift me up again
With memories of summer
Long low winter sun
When the first light dawns
Bright tufts flare orange above
Hazy teal acres
The wide open sky
Stetches out all around us
Everywhere we go
Winter starts to turn
The first signs of life spring up
From autumn’s debris
How many more years
Will you stand and watch over
This fading landscape
Juvenile Oak trees
Keep their red leaves all winter
It’s called marcescence
Greenish goads grow gold
On our rugged robust rods
Spiny evergreens
Slowly the snow drops
Fluttering flurries unfurl
Seizeing the daylight
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