Longing

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birds, haiku, poem, poetry, summer, sun, weather, winter

On Winter days

long shadows, short days
weary Sun too tired to climb
song birds long to sing

ready

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gin, haiku, nature, poetry, seasons, sloes, summer

On hunter gathering, at least gathering.

Summer slipped away
blackberry season ending
sloes ready for gin

gone

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beach, haiku, holidays, poetry, summer, sun hat

end of summer hols
beach echoes to sound of gulls
abandoned sun hat

Summer

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beauty, butterfly, haiku, nature, poem, poetry, seasons, summer, tortoiseshell

Aglais urticae
epitomises summer
the small tortoiseshell

luxury

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blackberries, fruit, haiku, nature, poetry, seasons, summer

summer bountiful
hedges full of blackberries
sheer luxury

Summer

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haiku, nature, poetry, summer, weather

one day bright blue skies
the next, grey, wet and windy
good old Summer time

bubbles

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beauty, damsel fly, garden, goldfish, haiku, life, nature, poem, poetry, pond, summer, wildlife

On pond watching

blue damsel flies dart
exquisite, fragile hunters
goldfish blows bubbles

wild

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flowers, garden, haiku, honeysuckle, nature, plants, poetry, summer

vigorous and wild
all challengers thrust aside
honeysuckle rules

Sunny

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haiku, nature, poetry, summer, sun, weather

On the back of the chair
My sun hat poised for business
All it needs is … sun

Fallen

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cold, gardening, haiku, nature, poem, poetry, shiver, summer, weather

On shivering

Middle of summer
Unseasonably cold breeze
Fallen rose petals