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A new day a new haiku
I’ve scattered these seeds
Sown them down in the damp ground
Will any awake?
Brittle bracken breaks
Trampled in the crisp morning
We follow the glare
Today’s not over
Before the next has begun
Merging into one
Bird song in the sun
Reminds me what spring will bring
Read between the lines
Soft silver shafts shine
Scattering sunlight sideways
Shadows slowly stretch
Frost bites hard and sharp
The relentless every day
The fields, an escape
Hang in the darkness
Fading in the cold night air
To obscurity
How long will I roam
In the purple Midland hills
Til I find a home
Fields frozen in time
But who will be here next year?
Melt into history
How do cold fingers
Creep and crawl so cautiously
Into the thin air?
Seasons cycle on
Bound in their ancient routines
Why ever can’t I?
When your last sun sets
What will you have left behind?
And where will you go?
As our lives lengthen
Such complex threads intertwine
Embrace the chaos
Silver meltwater
Slowly succumbs to the sun
Cleansing your grey limbs
What is a regret?
Is it just a mistake? Or
Does it still cause pain?
Here we stand on guard
Watching over the valley
These short human lives
When westerly winds
Weave whiley winter weather
Whither will we wend?
Even dead leaves, on
Drab dull dismal deary days
Look bright and cheerful
Just for a moment
Everything froze like a stone
Now we are melting
Over bleak fields
And through all the wild hedgerows
Let your cold wind blow
From crimson to gold
Last year’s growth scratches across
My evergreen eyes
Every new day dawns
Over yesterday’s ashes
Phoenix arising
Lift me up again
With memories of summer
Long low winter sun
When the first light dawns
Bright tufts flare orange above
Hazy teal acres
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