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A new day a new haiku
Before you know it
Curled up tight in fading light
And the day is done
What would it take to
Make you feel like you belong?
Should you leave this road?
There’s a roof to find
And someone riding a bike
Hidden in the grass
Calling corvids crow
Catch carious carrion
Cacophonously
What was once precious
Now crumbles down to the ground
Memory salvage
I want to belong
To the forest, to the fields
To the universe
Meandering back
To the long meadow grasses
Where time too stands still
They have locked the gates
Left the footpaths overgrown
Treeviction pending
Clouds smeared on the blue
Tarnishing the clear blue sky
With all my mistakes
Ripening berries
Sitting sweetly on the straw
Bursting with flavour
Each road I wander
Every footpath I follow
Always lose my way
Blown over the hills
Carried from forest to field
Never stop to rest
Days dripping downward
Wander in a daze of sound
Daisies droop groundward
When the rain had passed
From out of the dirty ground
Such beauty arose
Sharp blades newly shorn
Sweep the surface of the lawn
Seasonal seeds reborn
Many legs and limbs
Lift heavy loads together
Laughter makes lighter
Lost in the meadow
Quivering with the seed heads
What if this was home?
A million stems
Each the same, all different
Evenly diverse
We all need a nest
A place to curl up and hide
Or watch life go by
High up overhead
Trees stretch and are born again
How long your limbs spread
Sneak a cheeky peek
Slink though the winking fence chink
Fall, fell, fill, full, folly
I am a rain cloud
Once I was the deep blue sea
Moving though the crowd
What makes a city?
When is alone loneliness?
Where are you going?
Feet beat sleek Greek streets
Stumble over broken stones
And slip in the heat