tears

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death, friends, friendship, Haiku, loss, poem, Poetry, sadness

friend of forty years
slipped away, into the silence
tears for a good man

Traveller

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cabbage, caterpillar, Haiku, nature, poem, Poetry, travelling

imported cabbage
little green caterpillar
travels far from home

Plot

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Haiku, plots, poem, Poetry, story, writers

the storyteller
busy plotting his dream’s course
avoiding straight lines

Curl

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Haiku, poem, Poetry, tea, time

waiting for tea’s brew
memories rise, steam curling
be patient , have time

green

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fruit, haiga, Haiku, pears, photography, poem, Poetry

a bowl of green pears
not at all appetising
more days in the sun

Shiver

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poem, garden, sun, leaves, Poetry, atomic

ninety three million miles away
a vast atomic furnace rages
as it comes into view
leaves in my garden
shiver

Shimmer

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beauty, birch, Haiku, nature, poem, Poetry, trees

something quite special
as the morning sun rises
young birch leaves shimmer

Fade

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Haiku, nature, poem, Poetry, weather

Winter revisits
hopes of sunny day pleasures
fade with each grey cloud

Hunter

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birds, blackbirds, Haiku, nature, poem, Poetry

head to one side

a blackbird listens for worms

orange eyed, alert

notch

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food, Haiku, Poetry, weather, willpower

a sign of the times
belt goes up another notch
faded willpower