Category: Poems about Society

Poems about society

12/23/25 A New Haiku for a New Day

We didn’t start the fire,
But we profit from the smoke.
Dancing in its flames.

Blast from the Past:

What is this world?
It’s a world of fire and salt
Where nothing is real
Unless it is in ashes

12/08/25 A New Aphorism for a New Day

Photo Credit: Timon Studler

Today I wrote an aphorism instead of a poem:

Instead of asking whether someone is a good person, sometimes the better question to ask is who are they a good person to? Some people are only good to themselves and maybe those closest to them.

Blast from the Past:

Each day, two choices:
Cast out the bad out of yourself,
Or receive the good.

11/28/25 A New Haiku for a New Day

Photo Credit: ardhito giovanni

(Sorry. I haven’t posted my daily haikus in the last couple days. I was busy at a wedding. I wrote the haikus on those days but didn’t have time to post them. They will be up soon.)

Motorbikes, cars, and people
Whiz by, the constant motion 
Of Java

Blast from the Past:

The world keeps spinning
While I sit still and ponder
It’s ceaseless motion

11/16/25 A New Haiku for a New Day

Like a galaxy,
Oh the wondrous beauty of
Street trash in the rain

Blast from the Past:

Tick tock of the clock
With the faint trickle underneath
Of a gushing stream