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11/21/25 A New Haiku for a New Day

A day spent with friends
Talking about life in this
Strange place we call earth

Blast from the Past:

Sit by the fire
Contemplating cruelty
Man shows to others

Trees peak in and out
As the fog rolls off the hills
Opening up space

Blast from the Past:

Beyond the limits
Set by empty space lies a
New infinitude

Nothing’s happening.
The world spins on outside my walls
While I just stay home

Blast from the Past:

I show up every
Day, going through the motions.
Nothing seems to change

The little things you
Don’t notice often matter
The most to others

Blast from the Past:

Persuasive rebuke
A studied provocation
Influence lingered

Sleeping in after
Adventures throughout the countryside
A slow morning yawn

(I am feeling less literal in my syllable counts today.)

Blast from the Past:

Sleeping in, you learn
The extent to which the world
Spins on without you

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

On a motorbike
Flying down the mountain as
The fog covers us

Blast from the Past:

I look out to see
Mountains no one’s ever seen.
Time to start climbing

New culture, the same
Old struggle to remain sane
In this crazy world

Blast from the Past:

Behind the walls
Of his culture yet taking
The whole system down.

Disguised flattery
Delusionally earnest
Disgustingly done

Blast from the Past:

Sickening theory
But reality is more
Sophisticated

When you truly look
Into someone’s eyes, you see
The child they once were

Blast from the Past:

It may take some time
Till you glimpse the inner child
Behind the tantrum

(This article I wrote describes the idea of looking at other adult’s inner child in more detail.)