Year: 2025

12/27/25 A New Poem for a New Day

Photo Credit: Skyler King

I lie here in your cave
Your touch is all I crave
You forced me to be your slave
While you descend on my in another wave,
I must decide whether to make this place my grave.

Blast from the Past:

Timber and limber
Remember and dismember
Embers and members

12/26/25 A New Haiku for a New Day

Photo Credit: Tim Morgan

The monkey plays among
The mangrove trees, flapping its
Strange, enormous nose

(Yesterday I saw hibiscus monkeys, which are strange-looking monkeys here living in mangrove forests.)

Blast from the Past:

Maybe orchids hate beauty,
Becoming so beautiful
So that they do not have
To engage with the beauty of others

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

Photo Credit: Ron Dauphin

Mall Christmas jingles,
Announcing the arrival
Of capitalism

Blast from the Past:

A merry Christmas
To all, whether you do or
Do not celebrate

(For anyone who noticed that I have posted haikus in the last few days, I left my laptop on an airplane. I got it back, but for a few days, I was computer-less and thus unable to log in. I wrote a haiku a day over the last few days, but now that I am back, you’ll see me slowly start to post them over the next few days.)

12/23/25 A New Haiku for a New Day

We didn’t start the fire,
But we profit from the smoke.
Dancing in its flames.

Blast from the Past:

What is this world?
It’s a world of fire and salt
Where nothing is real
Unless it is in ashes

12/22/25 A New Poem for a New Day

Photo Credit: Vincent Garnier

Take a college degree.
Wrap it in a crisp shirt
And seal it with a tie
For the next several months, knead out all of its creativity
As it seeks to rise from its station
Roll it with trivial tasks
Until its spread thin across your pan
Then, once you can’t stretch it anymore without tearing
Fire it in your oven

Recipe for a white collar worker

Blast from the Past:

Gain your employment
Earn your opportunity
To obtain freedom