
I hope you have the
Doubt to see your neighbor
As you see yourself
Blast from the Past:
There are many paths,
But from the peak all of them
Will take you straight down
The Cracked Door – Daily Haikus
Reflections on life, the world, and society. Come explore with me.

I hope you have the
Doubt to see your neighbor
As you see yourself
Blast from the Past:
There are many paths,
But from the peak all of them
Will take you straight down

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

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

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

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.

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

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)

Personal impacts
Are fleeting wrinkles like a
Ripple in water
Blast from the Past:
Removal from drive
Comes with the removal of
Want and connection

The wind winds the
Reed. Yet also the reed helps
Us to read the wind.
Blast from the Past:
Turning everything
Into itself to advance
‘Bout the world, the wind

An interesting point
To intrude yet
Intrigue your life with
Blast from the Past:
Why catch my brain to
Steady it? Let it roam free
To go where it goes.