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01/22/25 A New Day, A New Haiku

Who am I amidst
The quagmire of debate ‘tween
The self and its brain?

Blast from the Past:

Postmodern crisis:
The power of perspective,
Generative force

Paradise nor fall
Shall come follow me as I
Erase sin’s tongue.

Blast from the Past:

Did Adam and Eve
Ever get to name themselves
In their own garden?

True damnation is
The aspects of you that you
Could never resolve.

Blast from the Past:

I approach an abyss
That I am afraid
To learn I’ve been inside all along

This photo is a great encapsulation what I am trying to say in both of my haikus.

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

Come die like we die.
Come and lose yourself with us
Oh Adam of life

Blast from the Past (an aphorism this time):

Life’s complicated but also simple. And sometimes how it can be both at the same is part of its complexity.

Our species stand tall
Among nature with grand lives
That end in our deaths.

Blast from the Past:

We laughed together
As we thought about what will
Happen after death

What do you do when
Who you are changes like the
Ship of Theseus

Blast from the Past:

They said to aim high
The top of the wall’s facade,
To Humpty Dumpty

Standing there, luring
Despair astray, erasing
Expanses of hope

Blast from the past:

In the darkest night
The lonely moon still shines.
Hope for dark days ahead

We can’t see those past
Nor know all people to come;
Eternal present

Blast from the past:

To see the future
As if it were. What awful
Past will lead to this?

I am wide awake
From the wondrous feeling of
Exhilaration

Blast from the past:

If this is Enlightenment,
Then there is no Enlightenment.
Only a moment of happiness