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The yellowing ad
Left too long in the window
A future long past.
#dailyhaikuprompt - yellowing
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Feathery hoarfrost
Needles out from cold branches
Waving to the sun.
#dailyhaikuprompt - hoarfrost
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Though snoring gently
The bear is aware enough
To ignore skiers.
#dailyhaikuprompt - bear
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These neeps and tatties:
Turnip mashed with potato
Will outlast winter.
#dailyhaikuprompt - turnip
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How does that chestnut
Roasting on an open fire
Make the season bright?
#dailyhaikuprompt - chestnut
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An evening of mirth
A night of indigestion
A morning of peace.
#dailyhaikuprompt - mirth
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Starved of oxygen
Burned wood turns into charcoal
To draw conclusions.
#dailyhaikuprompt - charcoal
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Whirling frost patterns
Such delicate tracery
Now scrape the windshield.
#dailyhaikuprompt - frost
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Solitary path
A thousand lonely people
Walking single file.
#dailyhaikuprompt - lonely
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Fright on the dark stairs
Something crushes underfoot
A surprise toy mouse.
#dailyhaikuprompt - fright
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Night before Christmas
When you hardly sleep at all
Dreaming of stockings.
#dailyhaikuprompt - night
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Prep for a blizzard
Get out the can opener
And the kerosene.
#dailyhaikuprompt - blizzard
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Watching empires fall
Following figures in flames
It's fireplace TV.
#dailyhaikuprompt - fireplace
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Now it's Christmas Eve
One more sleep 'til Santa comes
Time to hit the hay.
#dailyhaikuprompt - hay
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More than just a drink
A rare opportunity
The chance to imbibe.
#dailyhaikuprompt - imbibe
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Observed from above
The countryside seems asleep
Under a white quilt.
#dailyhaikuprompt - quilt
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Commotion outside
An argument of sparrows
Squabbling over seed.
#dailyhaikuprompt - sparrow
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Once the primer dries
A well-applied overcoat
Makes the wall perfect.
#dailyhaikuprompt - overcoat
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Light the solstice fire
And dance as if tomorrow
The sun will return.
#dailyhaikuprompt - solstice
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A quiet moment
With a coffee in my hand
Makes the whole day right.
#dailyhaikuprompt - quiet
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Gimme the hot tea
The gossip, the news, the view
Fill my empty cup.
#dailyhaikuprompt - hot tea
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As smoke dissipates
It leaves a faint aroma
Of something that was.
#dailyhaikuprompt - smoke
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#smoke

Everything can be
Made much better or worse by
Building a bonfire.
#dailyhaikuprompt - bonfire
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Between snow and hail
With no chance of freezing rain
Sleet is what you get.
#dailyhaikuprompt - sleet
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Avalanche of snow
A community of flakes
Can break up thin ice.
#dailyhaikuprompt - snow
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Winter approaches
An annual reminder
Spring will soon be here.
#dailyhaikuprompt -winter
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Frosty fingers touch
The delicate leaves and grapes
Withering on the vine.
#dailyhaikuprompt - withering
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Rake most of the leaves
But leave some in snug corners
For nesting insects.
#dailyhaikuprompt - rake
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Buried in the snow
Frozen chestnuts consider
Putting down some roots.
#dailyhaikuprompt - chestnuts
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Solstice approaches
The long night is keen to swap
With the shortest day.
#dailyhaikuprompt - long night
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Donald J Turnip
You will likely never find
A Ruder Beggar.
#dailyhaikuprompt - turnip
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Brassica napus

Even in winter
Where there is open water
You will find a grebe.
#dailyhaikuprompt - grebe
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The Norwegian Blue
Prefers kipping on its back
Pine for the fjords.
#dailyhaikuprompt - pine
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It’s hard to set down
A candle burned at both ends
But harder to hold.
#dailyhaikuprompt - candle
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A windswept snow drift
Settled firm against the door
Helps us stay inside.
#dailyhaikuprompt - snow drift
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You know what they say:
There may be snow on the roof
But it hides the rust.
#dailyhaikuprompt - rust
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Though winter may rage
And beat against my window
I am snug inside.
#dailyhaikuprompt - rage
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Christmas tradition
Twelve days of hearty roasted
Veggie turkey stew.
#dailyhaikuprompt - stew
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What is a classic
Traditions are sometimes kept
Without good reason.
#dailyhaikuprompt - classic
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January thaw
Yearly tradition of hope
For an early Spring.
#dailyhaikuprompt - thaw
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A young hare grazes
Underneath the bird feeder
Thanks be to Grackles.
#dailyhaikuprompt - hare
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Bright white winter moon
Gives the lustre of midday
To objects below.
#dailyhaikuprompt - winter moon
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It's only a cold
Such coughing dripping aching
But it's just a cold.
#dailyhaikuprompt - cold
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Even a dark cloud
That has a silver lining
Is still a dark cloud.
#dailyhaikuprompt - dark cloud
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A mind full of snow
The memory of first snow
And dreams of last snow.
#dailyhaikuprompt - first snow
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Remnant of summer
Winter grass is a present
Reminder of spring.
#dailyhaikuprompt - winter grass
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The fitted mask slips
Uncovering social woes
And I am exposed.
#dailyhaikuprompt - mask
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Fleet as Mercury
Sable in its winter coat
Huddles with its kin.
#dailyhaikuprompt - sable
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The fading sunlight
Is held a little longer
By the bright white snow.
#dailyhaikuprompt - fading
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Single shining star
Whose light floods the firmament
Wait, is that the sun?
#dailyhaikuprompt - star
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An impromptu creek
Sprung from snowy headwaters
Seeks a corner drain.
#dailyhaikuprompt - creek
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Young Camillia
Bright as her floral namesake
But spelled differently.
#dailyhaikuprompt - camillia
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Cleaning the fireplace
Creosote, soot, ash and dust
Ignite memories.
#dailyhaikuprompt - fireplace
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Uncollected leaves
Steeping in slumping snow banks
Make Meltwater Soup.
#dailyhaikuprompt - soup
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My father said once
They just had turnips to eat.
Now I understand.
#dailyhaikuprompt - turnips
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In the winter cold
With each breath we watch our words
Vanish into mist.
#dailyhaikuprompt - breath
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While it is dark now
It's just a matter of time
Until a new dawn.
#dailyhaikuprompt - time
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Canada our home
The true north strong and frozen
Just like our elbows.
#dailyhaikuprompt - north
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The finest clear day
Is not one with fine weather
But one with clear thoughts.
#dailyhaikuprompt - clear day
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The frozen landscape
May look like desolation
But there's life beneath.
#dailyhaikuprompt - desolation
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Soft velvet shadows
Wolf moon on fresh fallen snow
A hopeful new year.
#dailyhaikuprompt - wolf moon
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North wind and gray cloud
Shift the pallor of the sky
'Til it looks like snow.
#dailyhaikuprompt - north wind
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December lights up
As a joyous prelude to
Dark January
#dailyhaikuprompt - December
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Field exercises
In malicious compliance
May be in order.
#dailyhaikuprompt - field
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Simple Sabotage

Another day done
The world pauses at moon rise
Another night starts.
#dailyhaikuprompt - moon rise
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Pheasant in the snow
Rethinking its life choices
About migration.
#dailyhaikuprompt - pheasant
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Bright amber pine sap
Shining solid on the trunk
Until you touch it.
#dailyhaikuprompt - pine sap
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North, South, East, and West
These are the cardinal points
That define our world.
#dailyhaikuprompt - cardinal
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Bare necessities
For trees to bear any fruit
Sun, soil, air, water.
#dailyhaikuprompt - bear
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What are those birds called?
I did not know the answer
So I said "Juncos."
#dailyhaikuprompt - juncos
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We call them mittens
But to cats they're better known
As dagger scabbards.
#dailyhaikuprompt - mittens
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In life it is true
What we cannot just enjoy
We must then endure.
#dailyhaikuprompt - endure
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The moon is jealous
Of the North's fresh snow cover
Gleaming silver bright.
#dailyhaikuprompt - moon
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Time rolls like a wheel
A new year starts each morning
And ends when we do.
#dailyhaikuprompt - new year
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Timewheel

A very cold night
Is endurable if you
Have enough lap cats.
#dailyhaikuprompt - cold night
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Frozen foam on sand
The plover patrols the shore
Trawling for tidbits.
#dailyhaikuprompt - plover
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No one cheers for sleet
Neither song nor poetry
Lauds wet, stinging ice.
#dailyhaikuprompt - sleet
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Take boiling water
Add leaves from a mountain shrub
Suits me to a tea.
#dailyhaikuprompt - tea
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A little known fact
Carp grow to suit their pond size
As do some of us.
#dailyhaikuprompt - carp
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That seam is complete
Time to replenish the thread
Start stitching the next.
#dailyhaikuprompt - thread
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Perhaps a clear sky
On the last day of this year
Is a good omen.
#dailyhaikuprompt - clear sky
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On this Hallowe'en
The foggy mist arises
To shroud the living.
#dailyhaikuprompt - foggy
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Dripping icicles
Reach toward the frozen earth
Seeking connection.
#dailyhaikuprompt - icicles
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Shirt, sweater, scarf, mitts
Underneath the winter coat
Now I have to pee.
#dailyhaikuprompt - winter coat
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Cold frozen marshland
Withered reeds and solid fens
No songbirds today.
#dailyhaikuprompt - withered reeds
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I'm sentimental
In a sickly sweet manner
But hardly maudlin.
#dailyhaikuprompt - maudlin
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To climb our mountain
Each of us as Sisyphus
Must all act boulder.
#dailyhaikuprompt - mountain
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#365DaysOfHaiku
#OneYearOfDailyHaiku

These empty farm fields
Desolate in appearance
Open for gleaning.
#dailyhaikuprompt - desolate
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It's too cold for snow
And yet somehow freezing rain
Is on the menu.
#dailyhaikuprompt - cold
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