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A new day a new haiku
This light has travelled
Ninety three million miles
In just eight minutes
Washed out and washed up
Carried downstream to the sea
Where I becomes we
I twist and I turn
Too soon I will burn, you will
Rise from the ashes
In thy rheumy eyes
Fierce, wild, fearless explorer
Another life hides
You may never know
Which journey will be your last
Brambles overgrow
Wherever you are
Look up at the stars and sun
Ever present hope
How long will it take
For my bones to break and turn
From dust into light?
An oppressive gloom
Settles over the last year
Days start to lengthen
When I’m out of doors
Even in damp drizzly rain
I can taste freedom
We can see further
From someone else’s viewpoint
Don’t just stay inside
Growing together
As trees are to the forest
So are we to joy
How soon we are gone
And what could we leave behind
That will out live us?
Squeeze through the snicket
In twisted tangles entwined
Go long foolish heart
If I were to walk
Onwards and oblivious
Where would I end up?
Tangled in hedgerows
Taking over old green roads
Where new lives arose
Can life be simple
Or is this complexity
Inevitable?
Midwinter mist still
Rising from the spreading mud
We don’t need these things
New ideas sprouting
Hardened by the wind and frost
Will they ever fruit?
Titans rise and fall
While lowly peasants endure
Less talk more action
Lone long-eared lapin
Lose yourself in lawless lawns
Lithe lurchers lurk low
Rainbow refractions
Rhythmic reverberation
Ripples in a pool
Weight me down, way down
Anchors hold me hard and fast
Deep down in the lake
Lonely waifs and strays
Meandering aimlessly
Downtrodden downstream
Take all our courage
Take advantage, stack it up
Make the fire burn
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