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01/20/25 A New Day, A New Haiku

I am born anew
In every tomorrow
Approaching promise

Blast from the Past:

If you press hard enough,
Things will shift,
Breaks will come

-Opportunity

01/14/25 A New Day, A New Haiku

Anyone who has
Never been perplexed will never
Become informed

Blast from the Past:

How I take simple
Questions and then making them
Now complicated

01/04/2024 Haiku for the Day

Flapping his mighty wings,
The caged eagle
Must be lonely

Blast from the Past:

Sitting on the train
Here among a crowd, we are
All in this alone

12/30/24 Daily Aphorism

Instead of a daily haiku, today I decided to write two aphorisms:

Many things would be far more interesting to see consume the world than hate.

If the world must be consumed by hate, I’d like it to be a much more interesting hate than this.

12/18/24 Haiku for the Day

Paint your daisies
Full of your philosophy.
Let its wisdom sprout.

Blast from the Past:

Move beyond these chains
Choose their illusion no more
Yearning is your key

12/15/24 Haiku for the Day

This taste of fire is
Overwhelming, but there’s still
Saliva to scold

Blast from the past:

A line of barbed wire
Divides this world and the next:
A painful crossing

This image that you see above somehow encapsulates what I was trying to say with both haikus perfectly. To me, it shows the flourishes of tasting fire I write about in the first haiku and the barbed wire divide I discuss in the second one. You can find it here (https://unsplash.com/photos/an-abstract-painting-of-a-variety-of-colors-OJ2_Tl2TVG0)