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Haiku for the twelve months of the year from around the world. |
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Haiku for the twelve months of the year from around the world. |
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Poet: John Bird Region: East Coast of Australia |
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JANUARY Sky |
chain lightning ~ a sigh as the sky reseals |
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FEBRUARY Death |
slow-dying light the goshawk's belly flashes white |
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MARCH Flight |
sagging fence round the holding paddock ~ northbound swifts |
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APRIL Flowers |
cenotaph ~ a bee settles on the alamanda |
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MAY Land |
hilltops pierce the valley mist a swirl of egrets |
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JUNE New Life |
tax year ends fingerlings pattern the bay |
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JULY Animals |
cold rain on the pet shop window a pup's pink tongue |
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AUGUST Time |
fifty years on ~ that same urge to climb the playground pine |
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SEPTEMBER Water |
the canoe glides under mangroves her white neck |
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OCTOBER Loss |
hailstorm over ~ half their tomato crop intact |
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NOVEMBER Aquatic Life |
spring tide a crab hole slurps in its turn |
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DECEMBER Family |
city cousins gone he lets his best friend in ~ smell of wet fur |
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