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A new day a new haiku
Sunlight still filters
Through these dusty old windows
I keep them open
Remake the rainbow
Reimagine refraction
Reform and reborn
Though the days are short
Keep on walking on and up
A little each day
Swim against the stream
Keep walking the winding road
Plough your own furrow
Huddle up against
The wind, the sleet and the snow
Stronger together
Leaf strata compose
An ever growing cover
For our longest sleep
Darkness lies below
When it enters in our eyes
Where does the light go?
With the burning sky
We beat a familiar path
To forge new memories
As the days shorten.
The shadows stretch out longer
Underneath my eyes
Weave and wind my way
Through the twisted maze of trees
Where I lost myself
Our food is all gone
Our home has turned into stone
The sun is our all
Glowing in cold skies
Our silent silver sister
Always out of reach
As each year passes
I lose more of my branches
And turn to ashes
If I could leave these
Cold grey winter days behind
I’d start to miss them
Trees turn sun to wood
With the wood we build a fire
The fire makes a home
Fractured frozen frost
Covering every surface
Why are they so white?
Subtle spirits hide
In the space between the trees
Broken labyrinths
Silently the days
Dissolve into woody seas
Burnished by the sun
Frost bites my fingers
I hold tighter to the days
While any remain
All my empty words
Flutter and fall to the ground
And return to dust
Ice cold fingers creep
Across fading failing fields
Winter’s frozen grip
And again we wait
Retire to familiar ground
While winter passes
Shadows grow longer
While a greying cloak gathers
Around silent trunks
This soft brazen glow
Hangs between the growing nights
A patient robin
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