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A new day a new haiku

The days still shorten

In the shrinking horizon

So we must press on

17th November 2020
The slow silent creep

In wiry tendrils entwined

Bramblers always win

16th November 2020
These fleeting moments

Impossible to capture

Like hunting for ghosts

15th November 2020
Hazy halos hang

Between bare brackish branches

Murky mists make myths

14th November 2020
And what will remain

Of the things we do and say

In a thousand years?

13th November 2020
When all you have left

Are memories, cling on tight

Never let them go

12th November 2020
Old questions expel

From every crook and nanny

Derelict puzzles

11th November 2020
Some days slowly slide

Into dreams from somewhere else

Gently slip away

10th November 2020
Through our father’s fields

We will follow every path

Crooked and oblique

9th November 2020
Suffocating fug

Creeping between chinks and cracks

I seal myself in

8th November 2020
When the scythe comes down

And severs the world in two

Time himself stands still

7th November 2020
Four walls and a roof

A solid comfortable trap

Adventure awaits

6th November 2020
Hope dawns unbidden

With a blue moon exigent

So I try again

5th November 2020
Rip this land in two

So there is nothing to miss

When you’re tearing past

4th November 2020
If you keep moving

You can stay out in the cold

Indefinitely

3rd November 2020
Float away downstream

Carried in gentle currents

My eyelids closing

2nd November 2020
Darkened tributaries

Glimmer, glisten in gold leaf

Desperately clinging

1st November 2020
Setback, set the fire

A setup, set me alight

And so set me free

31st October 2020
Fade into twilight

Scramble through the brambly hedge

Into a warm nest

30th October 2020
Squint through the half light

Seek and search for the half rhyme

Is this a half life?

29th October 2020
So easily crushed

This magic of making things

Where does it come from?

28th October 2020
Drip drop chip chop chap

Left leaves leave leaving leaves left

Beg big bag bog bugs

27th October 2020
In a hazy shroud

Defeated and deflated

Can I carry on?

26th October 2020
Lonely winding lanes

Lead my mind away from pain

I don’t want to face

25th October 2020