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A new day a new haiku
In our children’s eyes
How will this be remembered?
The start, or the end?
Between day and night
The light of another world
Carries us beyond
Between blue blankets
Frost settles in for the night
Can I hibernate?
Paddles pick their way
Fighting through frosted ice sheets
Frozen fingers burn
From ice dusted fields
The will of the wisp arose
Luring us away
Ice crystals fracture
Clear light into scarlet waves
Everything is still
Distant mountain peaks
Shining as the sun sets peach
The saucer moon peeps
My empty echoes
Slump against this hollow trunk
A bottomless pit
Mired in murky marsh
The hidden heron spies us
Invasive species
The deceit of dusk
A dim shroud to hide behind
As I slip away
Being together
Reminds us of what we’ve lost
The days get longer
Through the undergrowth
What wordless wonders whisper?
Unspeakable tales
Decomposition
Changing death into new life
And from life comes hope
Bramble tendrils wind
Distant planets intertwine
There’s always a sign
So soon the sun sets
Slides below the horizon
On the shortest day
Sun rises slowly
Creeps along the horizon
Washed up and away
Fade out into the background
Inconspicuous
Keep running up that hill
Though we’ll never reach the top
We’ll keep on running
Although they are slow
All the things that grow below
Must begin to show
Empty windows creak
Cracks become leaks become creeks
Nature reclaims her
The wind sings a song
Howling with rage and sadness
Older than the birds’
Riding on the bones
That this old skeleton rode
Where lions burn gold
The seasons unfold
Grasses wither and get old
Summer turns to gold
Molten branches bend
Silver trees drop golden leaves
Circles have no end
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