Elizabeth Squires: Poems

Haiku

Elizabeth Squires Jun 2020

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spring's color palette
paints a resplendent canvas
of floral glories

#haiku #spring #color #palette #paints #resplendent #canvas #floral #glories

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Elizabeth Squires Sep 2013

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o'er iron stone ridge
the evening star keeps watch
on our small township

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Elizabeth Squires Oct 2024

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may a lasting peace
prevail on this our planet
for all of mankind

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Elizabeth Squires Oct 2013

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flights of king parrots
landed on the schoolyard lawn
to feed on elm seeds

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Elizabeth Squires Dec 2016

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a faint pencil line
marks dusk's far off horizon
in day's curtain close

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Elizabeth Squires Jul 2014

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in drowsy repose
a clan of bulbous grey clouds
hung over the bush

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Elizabeth Squires Aug 2014

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as the wind currents
are changing they indicate
a seasonal shift

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Elizabeth Squires Aug 2021

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winter's naked trees
shall soon be clad in leaves
dressing for spring days

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Elizabeth Squires Oct 2013

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on the forest floor
bark twigs and leaf matter lay
they'd soon be compost

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Elizabeth Squires Sep 2014

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bright shining lanterns
hang from wattle tree branches
along the Gap road

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Elizabeth Squires Nov 2017

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a sole butterfly
lightly pirouettes around
the floral garden

#haiku #butterfly #pirouettes #garden #floral

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Elizabeth Squires Aug 2013

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the evening star
did brightly sparkle tonight
o'er the western ridge

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Elizabeth Squires Jul 2014

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a convoy of trucks
thundered down the main drag
of our small township

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Elizabeth Squires May 2014

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on his departure
her heart's lively red color
drained to pallor

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Elizabeth Squires Nov 2021

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across late eve skies
volleys of thunder echoed
like far canon fire

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Elizabeth Squires Sep 2020

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her bloom smells e'er sweet
yet when she turns into fruit
there's a bitter taste

#haiku #lemon #metamorphosis

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Elizabeth Squires Jul 2021

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as twilight drew nigh
the last frail bird calls of day
floated on eve's breeze

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Elizabeth Squires Dec 2016

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out of the darkness
emerged a lamplighter
shedding his bright glow

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Elizabeth Squires Aug 2014

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a blue parchment sky
reigns over our bush terrain
brilliant is its hue

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Elizabeth Squires Feb 2018

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as intense sunlight
cut through the forest's canopy
it left dappled shade

#haiku #shade #forest #canopy #dappled #nature

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Elizabeth Squires May 2019

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as a slung hammock
the moon was positioned
in last night's gloaming

#haiku #moon #hammock #gloaming

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Elizabeth Squires Jul 2014

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as I sat writing
a sneaky twee wee breeze slipped
under my back door

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Elizabeth Squires Oct 2014

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love is a bouquet
scented in fragrant aroma
it overpowers

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Elizabeth Squires Jan 2017

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this morning the sun
glares with a dazzling stare
that blinds the viewer

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Elizabeth Squires Jun 2014

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along the shoreline
the lovers slowly walked
on that moonlit night

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Elizabeth Squires Mar 2021

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as day came to end
last vestiges of sunlight
sank toward the west

#haiku #day #end #vestiges #sunlight #sank #west

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Elizabeth Squires Sep 2013

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o'er the black sea sky
the bright silvery moon sailed
throughout the long night

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Elizabeth Squires Mar 2014

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though we are mere specks
on the globe each one of us
so significant

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Elizabeth Squires Jul 2014

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a heavy sheet of frost
draped over our township
earlier this morning

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Elizabeth Squires Jun 2024

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bright shining sun beams
reflected upon the lake
in glinting ripples

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Elizabeth Squires Aug 2013

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man's constant feasting
on the planet's many riches
shall starve future gens

NB: Gens is an abbreviated form of the word generations.

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Elizabeth Squires Aug 2020

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gelid wind blusters
drove a freezing current's trail
through the snow clad dales

#haiku #wind #blusters #freezing #snow #dales

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Elizabeth Squires Jul 2019

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Oleander blooms
bear a sweet lingering scent
e'er to remember

#haiku #scent #bloom #remember

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Elizabeth Squires Jun 2020

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on higher regions
of the tablelands this very night
snow flurries will fall

#higher #regions #flurries #snow #night #fall

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Elizabeth Squires Jun 2020

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on the lake's water
glimmering diamonds bounced
their bright reflections

#haiku #lake #water #glimmering #diamonds #bright #reflections

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Elizabeth Squires Sep 2014

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the neighbor's little pooch
just cocked his leg to ****
on the pub's back fence

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Elizabeth Squires Mar 2017

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the sky this very day
has a humdrum appearance
it's shaded in grey

#haiku #grey #skies #shaded #humdrum

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Elizabeth Squires Apr 2021

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as last vestiges
of sun reclined westward
the day light dimmed

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Elizabeth Squires Sep 2021

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from tight bud jackets
camellia blooms bursted out
to show red petals

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Elizabeth Squires Dec 2014

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o'er the black sea sky
a huge silvery moon sailed
throughout the long night

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Elizabeth Squires Nov 2017

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fresh and printed new
as the glistening morn dew
tis a lovely view

old and so well worn
as the near dead cobs of corn
tis a sight forlorn

#nature #dew #corn #haiku #rhyming #comparisons

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Elizabeth Squires Nov 2013

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as day progressed
the signs of good rains grew less
bush skies were cloudless

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Elizabeth Squires Jun 2020

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morn's cold sheet of frost
shall cover our small township
in an icy freeze

#haiku #sheet #frost #cover #township #icy #freeze

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Elizabeth Squires Jun 2020

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out toward the west
last vestiges of day light
slowly reclined

#haiku #toward #west #last #vestiges #day #light #slowly #reclined

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Elizabeth Squires May 2014

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fortunate we are
to live in rural surrounds
we've no pollution

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Elizabeth Squires Jan 2017

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a brilliant blue sky
gave cause for the birds to sing
in joyous chorus

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Elizabeth Squires Aug 2014

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spring's vivid colors
lay in winter's white cocoon
waiting to burst forth

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Elizabeth Squires Feb 2017

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a hint of autumn
pervaded the morning's air
twas cooler in feel

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Elizabeth Squires Sep 2017

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a fast skirling wind
raced through the gumtree limbs
bending their branches

#observation #nature #wind #tree #limbs

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Elizabeth Squires May 2021

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the fire's hot tongue
licked energetically
on parched woodlands