New Year haiku

 -------New Year-------

Seeds are 

awaking

Beneath

this

unceded ground.

Soon

flowers will grow.

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Onward

 -------Onward-------

Tulip 

Poplar

straight and tall

Leafless now

with Winter

I can see her branches

Like arms

beholding

The seeds

of Springs 

to come.

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We've Come To Heal

 -------We've Come To Heal-------

An elder alder

full of catkins 

and white

On a forest green of cedar,

sword fern, fir

and scotch broom

Convey the years 

have grown

since old growth

And that nature

comes 

to heal.

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Winter Time

 -------Winter Time-------

Winter time 

is slower 

time

Though minutes 

stay the same

As if time 

itself 

was nothing more,

And everything,

but a dream.

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Intelligence

 -------Intelligence--------

Seagulls trace 

the waters edge

Mussel-beaked 

observing

The stones below 

for one to crack 

Their catch

Falling

Open.

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Liberty haiku

 -------Liberty-------

Peace is destruction

When genocide 

is construct.

Liberty for all.

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Deep Water

 -------Deep Water-------

Near water,

where the Heron stands,

I can hold 

to time 

like weather

Like coldness 

calls

past hurt to surface

up 

and to this edge

Where I stand 

to face the water

and the depth

of who 

I am.

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