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.
09/13/26 A New Haiku for a New Day
Year: 2026
09/12/26 A New Haiku for a New Day
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?
09/11/26 A New Haiku for a New Day
Let’s fall in love
Like we never loved before
Nor learned not to do so ever again
Context (if you’re interested):
It is based on “y / n” in “You Are Here” by Dawn Lanuza.
08/10/26 A New Haiku for a New Day
It’s without twists and turns
That I approach
Meeting you
Context (if you’re interested):
The idea of this poem just popped into my head one night.
08/09/26 A New Poem for a New Day
No new city,
No new climate
Can calm the storm
Inside your headDoes 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
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
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.