Daily Haiku Archives - Page 9 of 49 - The Cracked Door

11/27/25 A New Haiku for a New Day

Waiting while it loads
Watching my slow computer
Take such a long time

Blast from the Past:

I’m like a glacier:
Slow-moving til you get to
My ice-cracking tip.

Kneeling before their elders
Washing each other’s feet
Standing up to start a new life together

(This one is about a Javanese wedding I attended.)

Blast from the Past:

We must discover
The way we fit together.
Let us join the dance.

Thrown into the water
The net comes back with
Tons of trapped fish
For you to dislodge

Blast from the Past:

The rabbits present
The tiger with many fish
To not become lunch.

The head of a rock
Hellbent on moving “forward”
Towards violence

Blast from the Past:

A generation
Who never knew war heralds
Trauma for the next

Don’t drink the honey
Unless you want to attract
Some curious bears

Blast from the Past:

The higher you climb,
The more strongly the wind blows,
The harder to grip.

A day spent with friends
Talking about life in this
Strange place we call earth

Blast from the Past:

Sit by the fire
Contemplating cruelty
Man shows to others

Trees peak in and out
As the fog rolls off the hills
Opening up space

Blast from the Past:

Beyond the limits
Set by empty space lies a
New infinitude

Nothing’s happening.
The world spins on outside my walls
While I just stay home

Blast from the Past:

I show up every
Day, going through the motions.
Nothing seems to change

The little things you
Don’t notice often matter
The most to others

Blast from the Past:

Persuasive rebuke
A studied provocation
Influence lingered

Sleeping in after
Adventures throughout the countryside
A slow morning yawn

(I am feeling less literal in my syllable counts today.)

Blast from the Past:

Sleeping in, you learn
The extent to which the world
Spins on without you