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A new day a new haiku

Between capped mineshafts

We crept down the eerie dale

Our captors pursue

17th February 2020
Dragged under water

Into seething froth and foam

Sinking in regret

16th February 2020
Lashed by wind and rain

Across the cold lonely peaks

The doors all bolted

15th February 2020
And now snowdrops spring

Around every new corner

Another surprise

14th February 2020
Now ivy surrounds

And pulls you into the ground

Turning upside down

13th February 2020
Just a stump remains

You were cut down in your prime

Never to grow back

12th February 2020
Whatever we leave

For generations to come

They won’t understand

11th February 2020
What mortal terror

Rent these stone walls asunder?

Every kingdom falls

10th February 2020
Only this corner

Of your stronghold still standing

You lost the battle

9th February 2020
In the place you lay

I trod softly above you

And knelt in wonder

8th February 2020
Sitting still for hours

Still I’m moving many miles

Incongruously

7th February 2020
I long to paddle

All along this long river

To the Pacific

6th February 2020
High rise and inside

Behind misty mountains hide

I go there in mind

5th February 2020
Inside concrete shells

Days and nights begin to blur

Slowly float away

4th February 2020
Endless mountains stretch

A still silent wilderness

Melting in twilight

3rd February 2020
The catkins unfurl

Like sheep’s tails swing in the breeze

And birds will come back

2nd February 2020
High up on a shelf

Folded up into a box

Faded by the light

1st February 2020
Irises open

Spicy saffron stamens spring

Where did you come from?

31st January 2020
Buried by branches

Blinded by brighter birch bones

Between broken briar

30th January 2020
As the first signs spring

They break the cold winter earth

Dreams break hearts in two

29th January 2020
Dawn divides darkness

Am I the lies underneath

Or the breaking sky?

28th January 2020
Once I was alive

Now we live in photographs

Vicariously

27th January 2020
Another day dawns

Lift me with your golden gaze

Help me to forget

26th January 2020
One day will be last

All the things I didn’t do

Will become regrets

25th January 2020