ETHNODATA1, Author at The Cracked Door - Daily Haikus

04/13/26 A New Poem for a New Day

Do something grand
Do something amazing
But you won’t do any good
If you come guns a blazing

Blast from the Past:

Would an avenged pot
Ever really manage to
Hold water again?

It’s worthless to think
It’s worthless to analyze
When no one else seems to

Blast from the Past:

Can’t think beyond so
What do you do? You bully.
Harm those who differ.

The smallest of things
Zooms up close after a while
Whispering “Hello!”

Blast from the Past:

Uncover the core
Of the impossible. See
The world around you.

My words keep hyphen-
Ating. My eyes always dash-
Ing to the next line.

Blast from the Past:

blah blah blabba blah
those are your five plus seven
plus five syllables

Questions draw people in,
But pronouncements push them away
Ask questions.

Blast from the Past:

Raise troubling questions
Malleable conventions
Few floating forays

Seconds before the
Big impact is the wrong time
To ask what the point is

Blast from the Past:

Isolated in our
Hulking towers of gray stone:
Evil in nonbeing

If you want to really understand someone, watch how they eat a burrito.

Blast from the Past:

Who do you go to
When you need someone to
Discuss life’s questions?

The stream keeps flowing
Despite my persistent tries
To dam it back up

Blast from the Past:

I stood with branches
Planting my feet in place while
Ideas whirled round

The cuscus glances at
His lover across the branch
In the afterglow of sex

Blast from the Past:

What is the point of
Fine roses in the pathway if
You can’t enjoy them?

Stand in line
All we need is
Your compliance

Blast from the Past:

I should fall in line?
For a job? That’s never worth
It in the long run.