Year: 2025

08/31/25 A Magic 9 Poem for a New Day

Photo Credit: Pexels

Eyes glued forward, beyond the rise and fall
Too afraid to look another way
The wind howls its persistent call
A slap across my face
The boat inches on its slow crawl
Nothing can change its glacial pace
“Forward!”, “Forward!” I try to call
Get me to another day
Beyond the rise and fall

Today’s poem is a Magic 9 poem, a 9 line poem following this rhyme scheme: abacadaba. Evidently, this form of poetry was invented as a typo of abracadabra, but without the r’s.

Blast from the Past:

I’ll try again to
Right the ship that veers off course
Towards oblivion

08/27/25 A New Haiku for a New Day

Photo credit: Craig Marolf

Unable to know
Which way is up or down. The
Horizon is gone.

Blast from the Past:

I’m at the end of
The road, nowhere else to turn
I sit down and wait

08/26/25 A New Poem for a New Day

Photo Credit: Alexander Krivitskiy

I don’t believe in anger
I don’t believe in rage
I can’t stand your pain
I don’t want your cage
None of this will lead me
Back to you again

(I lost internet for a few days, so I was not able to post the poem I wrote that day until several days later.)

Blast from the Past:

Not proactive enough, not obedient enough,
Not developing enough, not restraining enough,
Not enough good questions, not confirming enough,
I have had enough enoughs

08/25/25 A New Haiku for a New Day

Photo Credit: YEH CHE WEI

During all of this
You’ll never be able to stop
The arrow of time

(I lost internet for a few days, so I was not able to post the poem I wrote that day until several days later.)

Blast from the Past:

Life is shortened by
Spending time sheltering from
Afternoon showers