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Year: 2025

10/12/25 A New Haiku for a New Day

Photo Credit: Emiliano Vittoriosi

Oh waters of Babylon
Can your ever
Collect all my tears?

Blast from the Past:

Every tear wept
By the abused is a crown
Drawn to a new dawn

Author ETHNODATA1Posted on October 12, 2025November 8, 2025Categories Daily Haiku, Poems about LifeTags dailyhaiku, dailypoem, dailypoetry, dailysenryu, dailyzappai, flashpoetry, haiku, haikuchallenge, micropoetry, poem, poetry, senryu, zappai

10/11/25 A New Poem for a New Day

Photo Credit: Towfiqu barbhuiya

Dinner exploding
In my gut
I wake
Cramping

Blast from the Past:

I think I am now
Ready for sleep to find me
Finally

Author ETHNODATA1Posted on October 11, 2025December 5, 2025Categories Poems about Sleep and Insomnia, Poems about the Rhythms of Daily Life, Poems that Aren't HaikusTags alternativepoems, alternativepoetry, dailypoem, dailypoetry, flashpoetry, micropoetry, poem, poetry

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

Photo Credit: Ian Wetherill

What are memories
But faint dreams that we rewrite
With each new visit

Blast from the Past:

Memories, like dreams,
Flee the mind, real then but absorbed
By our present life

Author ETHNODATA1Posted on October 10, 2025November 6, 2025Categories Daily Haiku, Poems about Philosophy

10/09/25 A New Haiku for a New Day

Photo Credit: Manuel Liniger

It is not the fear
Of death I have, but the fear
Of never living…

Blast from the Past:

The only constant
More certain than death is our
Quest for more in life

Author ETHNODATA1Posted on October 9, 2025November 6, 2025Categories Daily Haiku, Poems about Life

10/08/25 A New Poem for a New Day

Photo Credit: congerdesign

New poem
In my ever building quest
To write something down

Blast from the Past:

Some days, your haiku’s
Utterly brilliant, but on
Others, it’s like this.

Author ETHNODATA1Posted on October 8, 2025December 5, 2025Categories Meta-Poems, Poems that Aren't HaikusTags alternativepoems, dailypoem, dailypoetry, flashpoetry, micropoetry, poem, poetry

10/07/25 A New Poem for a New Day

Photo Credit: TheRegisti

A small blade of grass
Reveals in simplicity
The beauty of life

Blast from the Past:

The spider’s web:

Like all nature’s art:
Intricate and beautiful
Yet gone the next day

Author ETHNODATA1Posted on October 7, 2025December 5, 2025Categories Daily Haiku, Poems about NatureTags dailyhaiku, dailypoem, dailypoetry, dailysenryu, dailyzappai, flashpoetry, haiku, haikuchallenge, micropoetry, poem, poetry, senryu, zappai

10/06/25 A New Aphorism for a New Day

Photo Credit: Ethan Z

When I see a cliff, I see death. When a bird sees a cliff, it sees opportunity. (When a vulture sees me fumbling for a better view of the bird along the cliff, it sees lunch.)

Blast from the Past:

Fighting for its life,
The worm forces the bird to
Work for her breakfast.

Author ETHNODATA1Posted on October 6, 2025December 5, 2025Categories Aphorisms, Daily Haiku, Poems about NatureTags aphorism, dailyaphorism, dailywisdom, quoteoftheday

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