02/24/26 A New Haiku for a New Day

Photo Credit: Felipe Pérez Lamana

Descartes’ quest to build
Truth from scratch falls back unto
Solipsistic sand.

Blast from the Past:

Socrates asks, “Who am I?”
Descartes asks, “Why am I?”
I ask, “What about we?”

02/23/26 A New Haiku for a New Day

Photo Credit: Moritz Karst

Watching laundry spin
Rolling up, only to fall
An endless cycle

(Or at least for 30 minutes, but after that load is done, there always seems to be another load.)

Blast from the Past:

Pleasure comes and goes
Followed by melancholy,
An endless cycle

02/21/26 A New Haiku for a New Day

Photo Credit: NEOM

In this strange world,
What hope can we find beyond
What we bring with us?

Blast from the Past:

Hope is like a life
Preserver: though it may bob
It never sinks down

02/20/26 A New Haiku for a New Day

Photo Credit: Hussain Badshah

Their gateway to hell
Bland hallway to pastel rooms
Painted by slave’s blood

Blast from the Past:

All that is hidden
Is not always revealed, but
Is always present.

02/19/26 A New Haiku for a New Day

Chill under a tree
Sitting and cracking open
A nice coconut

(The sun bear I saw today had the right idea for how to spend a rainy day here in the Bornean rainforest.)

Blast from the Past:

Retreat from the noise
Of a cluttered world crammed in
A barrel of greed

02/18/26 A New Tanka for a New Day

Photo Credit: Janosch Lino

Ants run about like
The flurry of activities
That amounted to
Not much that the one you loved
Would perform every day

Blast from the Past:

There is nothing
More fascinating than
Another person

02/17/26 A New Haiku for a New Day

Photo Credit: Jackman Chiu

A day of rest and
Maybe a nap if only
I could fall asleep

Blast from the Past:

Nothing like a song
With engaging lyrics to
Inspire a haiku.

02/16/26 A New Haiku for a New Day

Photo Credits: yoshitaka2

The peaks emerge from
Their veil in the clouds as if
To say, “Peek-A-Boo!”

Blast from the Past:

For each mountain I climb
There is always another
Mountain behind it

02/15/26 A New Poem for a New Day

Photo Credit: Etienne Boulanger

Suppose you and I are the same.
Then you multiply me the same way I multiply myself
What if I then take the way you multiply yourself?
You and me multiplies with you without me the same way you multiply with me without you.
Ok, just divide you without me.
What is left?
You and I are the same as just you.
You are the same as two of me
As you become nothing

Blast from the Past:

Persuasive rebuke
A studied provocation
Influence lingered