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Monthly Archives: November 2013
Cut loose:
Showers of beech leaves, Paving the dark streets with gold – Freed by the north wind.
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Tagged beech leaves, copper beech, cut loose, freedom, gold leaf, haiku, north wind, paved with gold, poetry, set free
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Late blossoming:
On a leafless bush, Vibrant, pink roses still grow- Where there should be hips.
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Tagged defiance, elderly beauty, haiku, late blossoming, mature beauty, poetry, rosehips, roses, sexuality, stubbornness, unseasonal
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Jewels:
Crab-apple necklace, Hangs on an old wooden door – Shining red and gold.
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Tagged bright, crab apples, decoration, haiku, inviting, jewels, necklace, poetry, refreshing
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Two kinds of beauty:
Two silver birch trees, One clothed in fine golden leaves, The other quite bare.
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Tagged fancy clothes, haiku, naked beauty, nakedness, natural beauty, ornate beauty, poetry, side by side
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Looking up:
In the grey twilight, Trees clothed in spots of white light – Lift the shoppers’ gaze.
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Tagged cheering up, festive lights, gloomy winter day, haiku, hold your head up, looking up, poetry, spirits lifted
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Undercurrents:
In copper beech woods, Dry leaves rattle in the breeze – Though it seems quite still.
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Tagged announcement, apparent stillness, autumn, beech woods, copper leaves, fringes of consciousness, haiku, poetry, rustling sound, strangers
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Absence:
Silent lavender, Crane fly legs adorn old webs – the perfume faded
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Tagged absence, absence of bees, bees, crane fly legs, divorce, fish-net stockings, haiku, lavender, loss of summer, memories, perfume, poetry, separation, silence, spiders' webs, winter
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Welcoming:
Flocks of honking geese, Flying into the sunset – Enticing strangers.
Resistance:
Three apples remain, Still hanging from the branches – Hundreds on the ground.
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Tagged apples, haiku, holding out against the inevitable, poetry, resistance, strength, the fallen masses
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Guidance:
Against a grey sky, Past brightly lit offices – Five white swans fly by.
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Tagged gloomy winter, grey sky, guidance, haiku, light, moment of clarity, poetry, shade, swans, the middle way, work
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