Yellow Fire
(April Haiku)

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Little rust-red leaves,
no, blood-red in the sunlight,
there, throbbing with life!

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White stars are floating,
above the ancient tombstones,
on the slanting tree.

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Little lime-green leaves
running along the hedges,
look, like yellow fire!

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Christina Egan © 2017

Illustration from
‘Children’s games throughout the year’ 
(1949) by Leslie Daiken.