Do something grand
Do something amazing
But you won’t do any good
If you come guns a blazing
Blast from the Past:
Would an avenged pot
Ever really manage to
Hold water again?
04/13/26 A New Poem for a New Day
Tag: aphorism
12/08/25 A New Aphorism for a New Day
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.
11/03/25 A New Haiku for a New Day
Get off while you can.
You were never that good at
Riding high horses.
Blast from the Past:
I know too much to not know that I know too little about your situation to judge it.
(An aphorism)
10/06/25 A New Aphorism for a New Day
When I see a cliff, I see death. When a bird sees a cliff, it sees opportunity. (When a vulture sees me fumbling for a better view of the bird along the cliff, it sees lunch.)
Blast from the Past:
Fighting for its life,
The worm forces the bird to
Work for her breakfast.
09/11/25 A New Aphorism for a New Day
(My piece for today is an aphorism, instead of a haiku.)
If you give a man a fish, he eats for a day. If you learn to swim, you can scare away the fish and tell him you can’t help him anymore.
Build a factory along the shore that pollutes the waters, and you can make him work for you to earn his good on your wages
Blast from the Past:
When someone’s freedom
Can be turned into profit,
Then the end is nigh.
02/06/25 A New Haiku for a New Day
Think of today’s acts.
Would death taking them be bad?
Live the life you want.
Blast from the past (an aphorism):
Action is all we have until we die, so to avoid taking action is to decide to die early.
12/30/24 Daily Aphorism
Instead of a daily haiku, today I decided to write two aphorisms:
Many things would be far more interesting to see consume the world than hate.
If the world must be consumed by hate, I’d like it to be a much more interesting hate than this.