haiku nineteen

village graveyard –

sweeping autumn leaves

from my ancestors

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haiku eighteen

a moment-

that single coil of owl’s flight

above the marsh mist

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haiku sixteen

nearly weightless it leaps

eyeing my broad bean seeds

damn chattering squirrel

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haiku fifteen

wolf moon

the crows sudden silence

 my childs hesitation

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haiku fourteen

wanting him –

a dark shadow falls

from last years diary

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haiku thirteen

the old collie

opens one eye

and blinks at the orphan lamb
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haiku twelve

light sea breeze

bends the horned poppies –

there goes that twinge of sciatica…

haiku eleven

watching long dead stars 

my back straighter -

snow falls

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haiku ten

still air before a storm

the pigeon waits in the bare oak

nothing more.
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haiku nine

last white rose

nods beneath winter sleet –

flit of a wren’s tail

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