Category: Poems about Traveling and Adventure

08/31/25 A Magic 9 Poem for a New Day

Photo Credit: Pexels

Eyes glued forward, beyond the rise and fall
Too afraid to look another way
The wind howls its persistent call
A slap across my face
The boat inches on its slow crawl
Nothing can change its glacial pace
“Forward!”, “Forward!” I try to call
Get me to another day
Beyond the rise and fall

Today’s poem is a Magic 9 poem, a 9 line poem following this rhyme scheme: abacadaba. Evidently, this form of poetry was invented as a typo of abracadabra, but without the r’s.

Blast from the Past:

I’ll try again to
Right the ship that veers off course
Towards oblivion

08/27/25 A New Haiku for a New Day

Photo credit: Craig Marolf

Unable to know
Which way is up or down. The
Horizon is gone.

Blast from the Past:

I’m at the end of
The road, nowhere else to turn
I sit down and wait

08/21/25 A New Poem for a New Day

Photo Credit: Roman Davydko

Hiking through the forest,
In search of a monkey.

What’s that rustle in the bush?
Is that a monkey?
No, it’s a focused cat.

What’s that swinging from the trees?
Is that a monkey?
No, it’s a scavenging crow.

What’s that clamor?
Is it a monkey?
No, it’s gushing water.

What’s that brown figure in the bush?
Is it a monkey?
No, it’s a rotting stump.

Never did find any monkeys,
But in the search,
I discovered
A whole forest

Blast from the Past:

The trees are gorgeous,
If only I look up and
Engage with the world

08/05/25 A New Haiku for a New Day

Photo Credit: Kesba

The false broken sky
Where did the lost eagle go?
Where life’s not painful

Blast from the Past:

My feet know where I
Need to go, even while I’m
Lost inside my head…

07/22/25 A New Landay Poem for a New Day

Photo Credit: This time it’s me! Feel free to check out my new photography on Shutterstock

My plane departs towards a new world
A long long time ago, I left my own world behind

Everyone I meet here welcomes me
Cultural cousins of the ones I just visited

Kindred spirits but islands apart
Many here cannot afford to see their fellow kin

A short flight, but they might as well be
A world away from this island that makes up their home

A world I can traverse on each of
My many flights as I hop around to see what’s here

This one is a landay poem, which is made up of 9 syllable then 13 syllable couplet. They are supposed to demonstrate contrasts.

Blast from the Past:

Tossed into this world
You will receive everything
Will it be enough?

07/21/25 A New Haiku for a New Day

Photo Credit: Jakob Owens

I suffer from life
Heavy eyes and empty brain
The roads are traveled

Blast from the Past:

When sleep finally
Catches up to me, I’ll rest
For eternity

07/19/25 A New Haiku for a New Day

Photo Credit: Garvit Nama

Our planet is vast
I only want you to dream
I will go with you

Blast from the Past:

In this world of dust,
Every single speck is
A vast universe

06/04/25 A New Waka for a New Day

Photo Credit: Adrian Infernus

I sit on the bed
Tired, my eyes hurt, my head spins.
It is when I stop
I feel all the exhaustion
Now all built up within me

Today, I wrote a waka instead of my usual haiku.

Blast from the Past:

In the search for wonder
There are no endings
Only beginnings,
Eternal exhaustion