Kireji*

Memories

                receding

         enfolding

                      Musty

Pale flowers

                remembered

         Strange faces

                      fading

Soft pointless

                Echoes

         Each spring

                      renewed

Of personal

                once

         so warm - real

                      life

Sounds - sad

                Insights

         Only later

                      meaningful

Unallowed

                slightly told

         stories - krinkle

                      brown pages

Seeing - feeling

                understanding

         being - beyond

                      communication

Shifting - nervous

                despair

         Searching trees

                      of hope

Insane - poets

                drivelling

         Realisations

                      unread

* Cutting words - or words

         used as punctuation

         as derived from

         the Japanese - &

         William J Higginson's

         "The Haiku Handbook"