Haiku

A Spring of Dreams – Trench

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Trench

By Scott Bailey © 2013

Dancing with my wife,
last week the telegraph came:
Coughs ring round the trench.

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Three hundred and sixty-five poems in all shapes and sizes, sprung from dreams and emotion. Published day after day for a year. There are haiku, sonnets, katauta, lanturnes and many other forms – including free form. The moods are as varied as the forms and often reflect my mood on the day. There is sadness and grief, joy and love.

If nothing else – these can provide a small moment in everyone’s stressful lives to stop and contemplate the world in a different way.

Seasons

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I’m fresh out of spring
Beyond the long summer days
Winter is coming

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The Secret

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The ancient secret
Burns in our hearts and our blood
Obscured by sharp lies

If you really want to know the secret check out Mankind Limited

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Stroke of Midnight

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The brush of midnight
Sweeps darkness across the sky
Sprinkled with white stars

In response to Scott’s Daily Prompt, Stroke of Midnight

Sharp

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Silk slides on the breeze
Meets the flow of sharpened steel
Leaves a perfect tear

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Kissing the Flame

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The meteor dares
To kiss the flames of the sun
Then slingshots away

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Coasting

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This car is coasting
Familiar road ahead
Time to go off-road

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Space

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By Scott Bailey © 2016

Feel the space around
Everywhere that I can see
Breathe, release and live

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Discover

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By Scott Bailey © 2016

Discovered knowledge
Treasured sweeter than any
Teacher could serve up

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Enthusiasm

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By Scott Bailey © 2016

Dead enthusiasm
Passion for mundane labours
Seems to be required

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Another Anthem

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Ring the bells of life
Every heartbeat tolling on
So jingle them well

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Fishing

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Kingfisher fishing
Silver treasure in the dark
Ice seals the lake shut

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Flee

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The cold swallows flee
Riding currents to the south
Rivers take their time

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Missing

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By Scott Bailey © 2016

Never ending beach
The crashing waves repeating
Permanence missing

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Swift

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Swifts swoop and dazzle
Aerobatics in the sky
Still, we watch in awe

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Still

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Stood before a wall
Dreaming of the road beyond
Still before a wall

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Vanish

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You must remember
When waking from reveries
All your dreams vanish

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Pets

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Let’s play with our pets
Keep them happy and content
While we milk them dry

Cold Morning

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Golden sunlight fills
The air where the songbirds spill
Their song while frost kills

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Luck

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No rhyme or reason
Bad luck keeps on reigning down
Good luck’s hard to find

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Holiday

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Resting on the coast
The soothing sounds of the sea
Fill this empty shell

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Hope

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Hope holds back the tide
Stays the shifting golden sand
Thin mist arises

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Painted Ladies

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The painted ladies
Thousands fly from Africa
To be lunch for birds

Worms

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Spring showers cascade
The blackbird enjoys the hour
Worms join the party

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Snowflakes

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The snowflake’s fate is
To melt, to make great rivers
Thus quenching the flames

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Deep Green

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I stand on the shore
Unsure. Intimidated
By the great green deep

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Also inspired by an old and longer poem -> here

Green Shoots

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In the red embers
The wake of the forest fire
Fresh green shoots arise

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Shining Deep

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Darkness rules the deep
Bio-luminescence shines
Nature wins the day

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Supernovae

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A distant star blooms
Shining in the ancient night
Showers of starlight

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Daisies

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The warm sun colours
The world like dancing daisies
Spread between the graves

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Wolf in Snow

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By Scott Bailey © 2015

Hard the mud did cake
Matted fur, red blood flowing
On snow-covered wolf

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Owl

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By Scott Bailey © 2021

The screech of an owl
Clouds like scratches on the moon
Mouse darts warily

For “Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 369 SCRATCH and Screech.”

Ronovan Writes #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge 369 SCRATCH and Screech.

Droplet

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By Scott Bailey © 2017

Droplet spins midair
Shimmering graceful free fall
Dashed against grey stone

A Spring of Dreams – Nation

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Kerching-Kerchang-Pow

By Scott Bailey © 2013

Kerching! Kerchang! Pow!
Our economy picks up!
Soul still desolate.

Three hundred and sixty-five poems in all shapes and sizes, sprung from dreams and emotion. Published day after day for a year. There are haiku, sonnets, katauta, lanturnes and many other forms – including free form. The moods are as varied as the forms and often reflect my mood on the day. There is sadness and grief, joy and love.

If nothing else – these can provide a small moment in everyone’s stressful lives to stop and contemplate the world in a different way.

A Spring of Dreams – Butterfly

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Butterfly

By Scott Bailey © 2014

Sod the camouflage
Be resplendent in the sun
Flutter high and shine

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The Hunter

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By Scott Bailey © 2016

I am the hunter
Dance with me beneath the moon
Shafts of silver light

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Lark

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Lark perched by a lake
Reflected in dark water
A train rushes by

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Clouds

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Sunlight streams through clouds
Warm, cascading waterfalls
Dispelled by a breeze

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Dancing Waves

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Celebratory
The warming rays of the sun
Making the waves dance

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Dare

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I don’t dare to dream
Reality is too harsh
To just brush aside

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On the Edge

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Stand tall on the board
A breeze teases the skin; dive
Slapped by water cold

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Iris

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The dark wide iris
Sparkling bright now, mists over
As it watches time

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Hole

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A hole in the ground
Still black water reflecting
Meteors above

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The Universe

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Special, general
Einstein’s relativity
Beauty and balance

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Tales

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By Scott Bailey © 2015

Tales woven over the air
Tales woven in print
Tell you where and how to belong
And to stay there

This is your tribe
This is your way
Here’s your beliefs
The way to behave

But digital lines
Weave different tales
Social arising
Communities felt

So ancient tellers
Beware of the light
Too fast to contain
With old fashioned lies

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