03/31 cold
In cold Canada
Delayed gratification
We choose patience
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Small beasts be wary
From little things, big things grow
Tadpoles will eat you
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First as a defence
Nose and mind and meal enrich
Spicy secrets shared
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A gaggle of geese
Walking or swimming are they
In flight they’re a skein
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Can I buy a vowel?
Lost across the Atlantic
You know what I mean?
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Four leaves or three leaves
You share photons with a plant
Isn’t that lucky?
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smoke ___ lazy tendrils
rising above fire ruins
like a moth flutters
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Fuel, vessel, focus
It has and is all it needs
For enlightenment
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fine filaments
of a world offline
- true connection
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this banquet of taste
makes my mouth reel ...
chocolate, you bittersweet angel
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baroque cheekbones gleam/
gilt smiles stitched too carefully/
time looks away first
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at the banquet’s edge /
napkins bloom like red slow wounds /
outside, bowls are stars
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Controlling nature
For food and joy, the earth smiles
Know your pace, small one
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Winged Russian lisper
To where do you fly, my friend?
Mothgow, by moonlight
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#Dailyhaikuchallenge: snow drift
imposing snow drift
a coniferous pine hides
safe another year
Pollinator lure
Or coloured optic sphincter
Rainbow goddess named
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snow white, sleeping beauty
warm in her winter coat
surrounded by thorns
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down to the river
the ice drifts by; i watch
your breath cloud the air
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grandfather: wellspring
of stories and gentle lies
the child needs to hear
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the crone bends her head
over yellowing pages
writing out her life
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i found a pebble
that matched your eyes, flecked with white
like so many stars
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frost on the window
dreaming of the nightingale’s song
we wrap ourselves warm
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summer blaze, swept through
the brick fireplace, scorched black
all that’s left standing
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frost and fog, settling
over the sleepy small town
november last days
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They came from heaven
Colour joy until fall leaves
Rake into rainbows
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Photons and fabric
Colours and visions so bright
Futures faded now
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I’ll flirt with danger
We understand each other
But I won’t tempt fate
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Affection so pure
Through all trials will last, as sure
As these words will end
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Charming skylark song
Rarely, with luck you might hear
The ground lark singing
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