The Cracked Door – Daily Haikus
Reflections on life, the world, and society. Come explore with me.
Poems about navigating life
One more year has passed
On this task without
The appearance of an end
To travel the whole world.The more I travel,
The bigger the world seems.Will this be worth my remaining youth
To see it all, to go go go?
What will I think when I look back
At this time as an old person?
Maybe I’m already an old person now.
Context (if you’re interested):
Today’s my birthday. This was my reflection on the last year.
Tell me the way to
Heaven. This? Or that? Or, which?
What maze of paths!
Context (if you’re interested):
I wrote this to express feeling confounded when I see others so confident they know what is best for everyone.
When you ponder the
Utter vastness of the world,
Life can feel like a dream.
Context (if you’re interested):
Our lives can feel so small as to seem unreal when you consider how big the universe is.
Goodbyes are as
Inevitable
As your first hello
Context (if you’re interested):
I was talking with a friend I made while traveling who told me about how the rejection she experienced in childhood left her always feeling anxious when she has to say goodbye as an adult. This poem comes out of that conversation.
Is my life big
Enough to contain
All of my dreams?
Context (if you’re interested):
This is one of the biggest struggles in my life. I have so many passions and so much I want to see in the world.
My contradictions
Shall remain intact, yearning
For everything, beyond
This daily bread I hold
Context (if you’re interested):
This is a revamped version of the my poem from the day before. It expressed what I was going for better.
All stories will end
But don’t the let this scare you
Away from starting
What could be the best story
You could have for your life
Context (if you’re interested):
Based on “a prelude” in “You Are Here” by Dawn Lanuza
What passes for answers
When you sit in the forest?
The bird singing
The squirrel jumping
And the all-encompassing realization
That everything will be okay.
Context (if you’re interested):
Based on a poem called “What Passes for Answers” in a book by the same name
To a toddler,
Everything is a castle, a knight, or dragon
That they clasp with their hands,
These same hands that now
Type in this keyboard
Context (if you’re interested):
This one is about how our childhood curiosity often transitions into adulthood sense of responsible work. Never loose your creativity. Is what this narrator does on the computer less creative now then playing as a toddler? Work on the computer can be really creative or not. I left it ambiguous to think through what we do with our time as adults and how to foster a sense of play and creativity.
At the sight of death,
What do we have left to love
But that we can fall
Blast from the past:
Life emerges from
Destruction. Exploding stars
Form a genesis.