For my response I drew on other haiku I've written, compiling a collection and jamming on the ukulele until the following lyrics took shape:
Sleep a dark rough sea
shipwreck surrounding mystery
she hides
many things
Ripples reflecting streaming light
a thought surfacing in the night
both shallow and deep
rivers of consciousness while we sleep
Under morning glow
magpies gently chortle song
brightening my day
while the shadows are long
Ghostly melody
follow me into my day
fragment of a dream
won’t you please stay
Cockatoos exclaim
echoing among river red gums
morning has broken
and so am I
On the dry dawn breeze
a chattering in the trees
if birds knew words
I’d hear headlines
Ghostly melody
follow me into my day
fragment of a dream
come what may
Riding as dusk falls
nostalgia induced shopping malls
looking backwards
while moving ahead
Materialise
handwritten words on a page
watching thoughts appear
feeling my age
As days flutter by
they must feel like full lifetimes
to a butterfly
Ghostly melody
follow me into my day
fragment of a dream
leading me astray
