Years End?

Time, arbitrary
Each second, minute, hour
Mountains don't count days

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Letting Go

Learning to let go
Memories will always be
Each sunset is new

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Taking Stock

Taking stock of life
Plus, minus and compromise
Nature's gift; priceless

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Charting a Course

Charting a new course
Preparations made for change
New day offers choice

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Christmas Lights

Plethora of lights
Celebrating the season
Night sky has lights too

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Unseen

The start of winter
A beginning to new life
See what eyes cannot

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Longer Days

Lengthening of days
Counting the time until spring
Seed planted now bloom

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Small Disappointments

Small disappointments
Of seasons expectations
Relax, enjoy life

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Laughter

Infectious laughter
Copious amounts of joy
Tis natures season

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Writing of Haiku

Practice of haiku
Writing inspired by life
Captured in photos

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Laughing

Full moon lying low
Laughing at the world's antics
We can laugh also

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Agitation

Agitated world
Focusing on all the wrong
Large stone into small

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Times Passage

Passages of time
Marked by the calendar's days
Carved by natures hand

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Gift of Giving

A gift of giving
As deep rooted mountains
Buried in the heart

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Coping with Conflict

Coping with conflict
Typical interaction
Nature unfettered

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Slippery Journey

Slippery surface
Walking across the thin ice
Journey to the truth

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Complex Problem

A complex problem
Can lead down a primrose path
Cold water is deep

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Golden Stardust

Like golden stardust
Pieces fall from a dark sky
Lighting our way home

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Contemplation - Feedback

Listen to feedback
Your heart is telling you true
Feline contemplates

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Heart's Path

Where we are living
Geographic location
Path the heart follows

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Lighting the Night

Lighting up the night
Holding off winters deep freeze
Dreaming bigger dreams

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Tree Shadows

Nature tree shadow
Silhouette of what is real
Like imagined fear

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Igniting Dreams

Igniting the dream
Integrating heart and mind
Walking your own path

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Chronos Gift

A gift from Chronos
Opportunity for hope
Flowing through water

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Counting Days

Counting down the days
Winter solstice arrives soon
Sunlight stays longer

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Naked History

Naked history
Telling stories from the facts
See different trees

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Weather Lessons

The curve in the road
Unexpected, new unknown
Weather lessons taught

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Dream

Becoming the dream
Ghost of the past lead the way
Pod remains, seeds gone

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Changing Weather

Weather's drastic change
Part of the normal cycle
Awaiting new day

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The Puzzle

Key to the puzzle
Probing deep into the fray
One rock at a time

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Young Adults

A focused anger
Knowledge so called friends don't care
Water flow does heal

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Siren Call

The wilds siren call
A responding deep within
Washed on waves of dreams

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Life and Laughter

Life full of laughter
Fastest way to grab a dream
Water and ice glow



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Life's Whirlwind

Daylight fading fast
Winter's solstice soon will come
Is life a whirlwind?

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Reason to Smile

A reason to smile
Solution to all troubles
Bright colors of fall

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Instincts

Have the same instincts
Setting our stages for change
Last bright bloom of fall

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Seeds

Day of memory
Honor more than just the day
Soon buds will be seeds

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Searching for Answers

Searching for answers
Accepting the base causes
Tree stump long dead roots.

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Melody

Sing song, sing song, sing
Melody rings in your head
Birds swimming in time

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Life Choreographed

Life choreographed
Written goals, unspoken dreams
Shadow on the land

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Short Days

Short day, longer nights
Crowd hours into minutes
Life of the housefly

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An Interruption

An interruption
Proof enough; rough and ready
Fall into winter

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History Lesson

A history lesson
Traveling high lonesome roads
To reach far flung peaks

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Ghoulish Delights

Night's ghoulish delights
Gossamer veils in between
Reaffirming life.

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Unknown

To see an unknown
Cloud filters over the sun
Acknowledge request




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Whirlwind

Caught in a whirlwind
Winds shouting, rain is pelting
Searching for center

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Life Amid Decay

Life amid decay
Flowing like water through hands
Sing an ode to joy

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Details

Detailed attention
Following the map of dreams
Fog hiding the trail

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Warm Weather

Love warmer weather
Advantage of fall season
Gold leaves know better

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In Society

In society
We search for a destiny
A barren landscape

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