09/13/26 A New Haiku for a New Day

Photo Credit: Etienne Boulanger

Is my life big
Enough to contain
All of my dreams?

Context (if you’re interested):

This is one of the biggest struggles in my life. I have so many passions and so much I want to see in the world.

09/12/26 A New Haiku for a New Day

Photo Credit: drz

I have two versions of my poem for today

You aren’t the one who
Decides you are too small for
This enormous love

An alternative version of today’s poem:

What made you want to
Decide you were too small for
This enormous love?

08/09/26 A New Poem for a New Day

Photo Credit: whoislimos

No new city,
No new climate
Can calm the storm
Inside your head

Does it matter if
The others are kind
To you as a stranger
If you can’t be kind
To yourself?

Context (if you’re interested):

This poem is based on “the tourist” in “You Are Here” by Dawn Lanuza.

08/08/26 A New Haiku for a New Day

Photo Credit: Nick Fewings

I thrust my phone through
The throngs of tourists to take
My selfie alone

Context (if you’re interested):

This haiku is based on this Japanese haiku:

From the window of the departing train,
I first thrust my head out,
so as not to lose.

09/07/26 A New Poem for a New Day

Photo Credit: Zoe

The river rushes into the sea.
When will it ever return?
Why do we too expect
Our money to invest back to us?

Context (if you’re interested):

This is based on a poem by Lia Bai. I was thinking about how the flow of money in society is like a river. It flows in an endless cycle, congregating in certain places and leaving others dry.