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A new day a new haiku
If what was above
Matches what is underneath
Then there would be peace
Rivers snake within
Fusing water and sunlight
Magically melded
Gliding down the gorge
Sliding to the sighing shore
And fired in a forge
Long forgotten clans
Once roamed across these high lands
Now they sink in sand
Buckthorn, birch and beech
Yew were before sycamore
Copper, bronze and iron
You were here before
Anyone ever thought of
Caledonia
Wait for the wind to
Pick us up and set us free
Floating with the breeze
Birch and Rowan start
Their slow steady invasion
Kill views and bring life
The sky opens up
As we head yet further North
Welcome to Scotland
Blushing parasols
Exploding in the hedgerow
Each a universe
Send out my warm rays
Stretching long across the fields
Catch me when I fall
Don’t be shy, blossom
Let your natural colours show
Every day we bloom
Following the sun
To find out where he came from
And all that he’s done
Climbing every style
I’m combing every corner
Roaming every mile
Ever growing up
Reaching, bending, changing tack
Never reach the top
Bound across the field
A hound unleashed and frenzied
Sound and safe and free
Let’s turn a corner
Let me loose, let me run free
Let’s burn a path
Small lives shoot upwards
Offshoots flourish in long days
Each a unique blade
What magic uncurls
From such slight wiry tendrils
Summer holds her breath
Let go of today
And welcome in tomorrow
Yesterday has gone
Sticky cleavers climb
Bluebells chime, hailing spring time
Fragment mint and thyme
Warm son, lift me up
I bask in the golden glow
Shining from your smile
Flash floods flush fish flesh
From deep beneath the sewers
Defile the highway
We climbed up the hill
To catch the last on the sun
We’ll stay forever
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