PEREGRINE HAIKU SOCIETY • JANUARY 2, 2020 • Renga

Gray sky

Bleak landscape

Blurry future

Clear pages

No blots yet

New Years Gift

Clear away Christmas décor

Pristine home

Austere

Clear away holiday trash

Pristine home

No more snow angels in the yard

How things change

A fork in the road

Used to feed my desires

Happy New Year

Taxidermy shop

What was once so alive

Now perhaps just beautiful

The blustery winds

Assaults my forward progress

Begins the New Year

Light sings the wind chimes

With the new birds

I return

Blank mind

Free space and possibilities

Time and new adventures

A new day

There are many reasons

Don’t leave yet

A new year

Sky is blue

Library is quiet

Bang bang

Firecrackers

Fear ruins the joy

New Year

New Hope

Despite past history

2020

Barbara Walters

Returns

Hip hip hooray

Open door, walk bright cold path

Gorgeous day, new hip

Warm sunny

New Year

Will the daffodils come early?

Plateful of regret

I’ll empty it

The countdown begins

Dancing shoes

Church assemble

Old ring New Year

Calendar filled

No space

I am immortal

Declining clock

And sparkling wine

A new decade

Old magnet

New calendar

On the refrigerator door

Went to the gym

New Year old dreams

High hopes

Dinner planning

Quiet evening

Early New Years

Fireworks late

Rising early

New year’s darkness

New Years

Striving for Spring Harvest

New Tears

Grow and grow out

Prepare to grow into

Short haircut

Away from chaos

Time to wind down

Do it all over

Coins in my pocket

Shake for prosperity

Now what

Warm spices

A glowing television

My eyelids close

New Years Day

Same Clouds

As yesterday

New Years Day

New wind

Around my ankles