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Scientists have x-rayed a handwritten original copy of Sonnet 18 by Shakespeare and found this remarkable edit by the Bard. ☕

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

 ̶O̶r̶ ̶s̶h̶a̶l̶l̶ ̶I̶ ̶j̶u̶s̶t̶ ̶d̶r̶i̶n̶k̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶e̶ ̶d̶o̶w̶n̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶a̶ ̶t̶h̶r̶i̶c̶e̶?̶

Thou art more lovely and more temperate

HAIKU

Sunday's precious gift

Is crumpled duvet lie-ins

Shared with crumbs of toast.

HAIKU

A single wren sings

With its tiny machine gun

Spraying the morning.

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The Great Escape - and no Steve McQueen or motorbike needed. ☕

HAIKU

Haiku's are fleeting

A ripe, hidden blackberry 

Picked to perfection.

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I wait for the stirred cuppa's tiny whirlpool fade to a mill pond - now it's fully ready to sup. ☕

HAIKU

Beginners Haiku:

Take seventeen syllables,

Mould them from word clay.

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The hug

From the

Very first glug.

HAIKU

The haiku drift mines

Where we rummage for meaning

From discarded words.

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The blinds are still drawn

Monday may not be out there:

Schrödinger's Monday.