Leaving you behind
your words fall between the lines
distant memories.

*

The past is a dream
rolling backwards before then
pushing us forward. 

*

Dreams of the past flow,
Backward rolling streams of thought,
Driving us ahead.

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Faded migration 
The deserted church is closed
Disappeared slowly

*

Made up friendships
faded now, their story told
leaving your childhood

*

The passing of time 
the world moves on every day
losing memories

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(I)

Found in my drawer
A reminder of lost love,
Worn and full of holes.

(II)

Forgotten and worn,
A sock without its pair mourns,
Like love that is gone.

(III)

Drawer now empty 
that once held both of our socks,
Now holds only dust.

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(I)

Spaced in the silence
birds land on top of the trees
welcoming spring back

(II)

Opening the gate; 
The grass is already moist.
Spring is here early.

*

(For #NaPoWriMo - National Poetry Writing Month 2023 - I am writing at least a haiku day set in Nature as many as I can in Shepley Woods near where we live with photographs to go alongside them.

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re-reading a book

for a Podcast later on.

making lots of notes.

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new year illnesses;
coughing into the darkness
hope it passes soon.

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old piano keys;
crumbling in our fingers. 
coastline vanishes.

(From a currently untitled forthcoming book which may also have a cowriter too)

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Freezing village pond
ducks dance on the frozen water
skating over death.

 

(Picture from Alamy)

#Winterhaiku #haiku #haikupoetry

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5 days until Christmas Haiku

Emptying the food shelves

five days until Christmas falls

panic rises high.

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NEARLY CHRISTMAS HAIKU

almost from nowhere;

Christmas sinks upon you all

counting down from 7 to 1.

(Image borrowed from beautyflash)

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(XXX)
Finding happiness
love is expanded facing
The sun together.

#NaPoWriMo (National Poetry Writing Month) Haiku in Bloom 30 and 30: (Now caught up and finally finished)
The full archive can be found at: 
https://onewriterandhispc.blogspot.com/2022/03/napowrimo-national-poetry-writing-month.html

(Picture is of myself and my wife, Amanda Nicholson (also known as Amanda Steel)
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barely in focus

the sun dazzles you walking

out of the forest.

The full archive can be found at:

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#Haiku #Haikupoetry #Haikusequence #haikuada

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(IX)

Early Spring night

middle of forest is filled

with one swallows cry.

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Walking in darkness
your front door briefly lights up
in the heavy rain. 

*

Ripping out the trees
lighting hit the forest hard
flooding the river

*

Sleeping in winter
the trees hiberate alone
awaiting for Spring. 

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Holding arms open

the snow tickles your shoulders

in a cold silence.

*

putting on your gloves

you wish you had your hat on

stepping in the snow.

*

Whispering winter

the snow turns the station white

shunning the moon’s scorn.

*

Opening the door

boat was frozen in the lake

freezing getting home.

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(Wrote the other week in a zoom poetry reading after hearing a Indian Poet describe about how they are constantly hearing ambulances going past their home with ill people from pandemic. I aimed for a haiku with this but the poem decided otherwise and it became a closeish Haiku instead)

No Ambulances

you long for peace

from the sirens

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1984

We still don’t want you
your class team to said after
scoring twice for them.

(A early memory of playing in my class football team. 
It was not the best of times as I never really fitted in that class)

1985

Waking me early
I knew my nana had died
before mother said.

(My mum’s mum, my nana died in hospital 10 years or so after 
the death of her husband, my granddad all...

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The sound of laughter

is carried in the soft breeze

a footprint in time.

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(NB. Three more haikus on the Underground)

28

Asleep on the seat

He only just wakes up

Before it leaves.

29

As the taxi beeps

Outside he tells himself this

Can’t keep happening

30

Guitar in his case

The busker offers the tramp

Some of his coffee.

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NB. Three more haikus about the Underground

25

Northern train at stop

Pauses like it is watching

You walk your two dogs.

26

Getting hotter and

Hotter, it feels like the train

Is overheating too.

27

Pausing for breath

The guard wakes up the girl

For her ticket home.

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NB. Six more Haikus in my sequence Underground 

XVI

You smile after he 
Hides his wedding ring then slips 
getting off the train

XVII

September darkness
Makes the late running train feel
even much later  

XVIII

He doesn’t wake him up
until he has missed his stop 
smiling silently

XIX

the first train sprints out
infused with an energy
into the sunrise.

XX

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** NB. Three more haiku about the Underground.

 (More to come too) **

Underground XIII

You smile after he 
Hides his wedding ring then slips 
getting off the train

Underground XIV

September darkness
Makes the late running train feel
even much later  

Underground XV

He doesn’t wake him up
until he has missed his stop 
smiling silently

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(I)

Out of tune busker
Pausing for a few moments
Opens up a beer.

(II)

Pausing for its breath
The train can’t look back turning
Away from the guard.

(III)

Getting off the train
You almost turn back round to
Get straight back on it.

(IV)

Stepping from the mist

You feel like you are stepping

From a dark film noir.

(V)

Pausing suddenly

you think briefly ...

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Leaving no trace your

Feet disappear suddenly

In the midnight air.

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slowed down to silence
at midnight in the forest
even the birds sleep

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