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A new day a new haiku
Lift your drooping head
To the brighter horizon
I will meet you there
Follow fading clouds
To escape greater darkness
Falling into me
In a flush of white
Following the flower trail
To where I came from
A pair of Mallards
Weave and work a winding way
Through shedding rushes
I lost my way here
Hide beneath a fallen tree
Washed away like leaves
A harsh hard winter
Fading trees to leaves to mud
A clean skeleton
Blossom breathes new hope
Into my thorny black mood
Another spring comes
Bare trees without leaves
Fingers freeze in the chill breeze
Runny noses sneeze
Up the mountain side
Where my fears and troubles hide
Slip, slide, steady, stride
Some climb others jump
Some hammer others persuade
We pull together
Windows in the hill
We curl up and hibernate
In a warm straw nest
What view will I find
If I climb outside my mind
And see someone else?
Lurking in dark caves
Twisting through secret tunnels
Ghostly smugglers roam
The sea mist rolls in
We turn back to the solace
Of a fireside chair
Rain clouds rolling in
I sink back into my hood
But the waves still roar
Seething frothing waves
Tumbling over themselves
Crashing into me
Scramble up mountains
Clamber over fallen trees
Stretch your stubborn mind
Up in the hill fort
Run so fast we can’t be caught
The lines became taut
In the dark shadow
Of the looming mountain side
Find a place to hide
As I hide inside
A fallen tree, I wonder
What it means to be
Moss creeps slow yet sure
Engulfing shaded shadows
With scraggy green beard
Take a long hard walk
Mix with friends in gold sunlight
You have a memory
Carve through the valley
Moving through a clear blue haze
Dodging long red rays
Eke out an ending
From the last of the long light
Birch bark burning bright