The Cracked Door – Daily Haikus
Reflections on life, the world, and society. Come explore with me.
Eating some hot soup,
Hot milk, hot water. Why’s
The food so hot here?
Context (if you’re interested):
I was in China when I wrote this, and a restaurant had just served me boiling hot soup. I don’t mean spicy; I mean the temperature of the soup was hot. It took 10 to 20 minutes to cool off enough for me to feel comfortable eating. This is a culture difference, though: in China, people often eat food whose temperature is hotter than what I am used to. Just my personal experience that day.
You are like the book
I read two pages a night
But then that’s enough.
Context (if you’re interested):
This is about someone you enjoy spending time with but not that much.
Let’s burn so brightly
Like we never could when our
Hearts hadn’t been broken.
Context (if you’re interested):
It was based on a poem in a book of love poems called “You Are Here” by Dawn Lanuza that I saw at my hotel in Manila, Philippines.
I may seem calm, but
Know that the waters inside
My teacup are storming
Context (if you’re interested):
I was thinking about how many people put on a positive face when they are really upset on the inside.
Before we met,
I felt like I was
Losing you
Context (if you’re interested):
Looking back at a relationship that slowly died over a long period of time
I sit here on the edge
Writing poems
About nothing at all
Context (if you’re interested):
Taking a quiet moment to rest, I decided to write some poems. I am on the edge of nothing, writing about nothing. Sometimes it feels great to just pause.
Those with a purpose
Are better at worshiping
Idols than the rest.
Context (if you’re interested):
I have noticed how living with a purpose can lead one more susceptible to be swept into ideology. Not simply because they can take too far whatever they find purpose in, but because those with a purpose have something to lose, so they can end up endorse problematic things when that seems necessary to maintain what they have
Some people you meet
Possess the same look of the
Demon you just fought
Context (if you’re interested):
I don’t know if you have also seen this in the eyes of anyone else you see walking down the street.
Climbing one sand dune
So close I can reach the top
But my legs won’t move
Context (if you’re interested):
That day, I climbed a giant sand dune in the Gobi Desert. This was about the difficulties getting to the top. I was almost there when I needed to take a break.
You already wrote
Your book. I’m just the guy you
Needed to insert.
Context (if you’re interested):
This is based on a poem I read while in Manila about being the player in someone else’s romantic script.