Year: 2025

05/10/25 A New Haiku for a New Day

Photo by me

Rainbows, waterfalls,
Mist, and sun sun all come and go
In the Fiordlands

This one is about Fiordland National Park in New Zealand, one of my favorite national parks to visit in the world. I saw more rainbows there in three days than I think I did anywhere in the world, for example, and the mountains constantly shift between weather extremes throughout the day, completely changing the landscape in the process.

Blast from the Past:

The rain must be drums
Upon the water’s surface
For the fish beneath

More of my photos from Fiordland National Park:

04/10/25 A New Haiku for a New Day

Is the waterfall
Concerned with whether each drop
Gets all the way down?

(I wrote this haiku while on the road without enough internet access to post it day of, so I posted later when I internet.)

Blast from the Past:

Yes, waterfalls flow
Without purpose or plan but
With much direction and force
Emerging intent

06/09/25 A New Haiku for a New Day

Photo Credit: Mohammad Rahmani

// A Java Haiku

public static void
haiku(String cheese) {
System.out.print(cheese); }

Today, I felt like writing a haiku in Java. It’s a programming pun, based on the common word “string” in programming lexicon but also the idea of string cheese.

Blast from the Past:

‘ Haiku in Basic

print(five_word_sentence$)
print(five_word_sentence$+ ” and then”)
print(five_word_sentence$)