03/31/25 A New Poem for a New Day

A gorgeous waterfall
A gorgeous hike
Hike through rainforest
Hike through rain
Rain will fall
Rain will end
End, please, end
End then go
Go while dry
Go, what’s next
Next comes fog
Next we drive
Drive our motorbike
Drive, mist blinds
Blind, can’t see
Blind on mountainroads
Roads turn everywhere
Roads, ascending falling
Falling temperature
Falling line-of-sight
Sights on lunch
Site to stop
Stop and wait
Stop and warm
Warmfront, rain gone
Warmed and ready
Ready to depart
Ready for home
Home, I’ll dry
Home, I’ll shower
Shower returns again
Shower but light
Light, that’s okay
Okay, keep going
Okay for now
Now, it worsens
Now, it’s pouring
Pouring down rain
Pouring onto highway
Highway floods up
Highway becomes stream
Stream, must drive through
Stream splashing water
Water not just
Water and hail
Hail on arms
Hail on face
Face this, must
Face, get home
Must get home

(This is a blitz poem about an adventure I trying to drive in Indonesia in a storm.)

Blast from the past:

Storms pass me over
Loudly erring displeasure
Just to dissipate

03/27/25 A New Haiku for a New Day

Let that brittle wind
That tells you you don’t belong
Blow the other way.

Blast from the Past:

Yes, the emperor
May have no clothes but wait until
You realize that
Everyone has been naked this whole time

03/26/25 A New Haiku for a New Day

This photo from JNemchinova represents part of what I was trying to get across with my first haiku.

Endless planks leading
To the ocean’s horizon,
How far should I go?

Blast from the Past:

I walk along the
Path that refuses to begin,
Eternal present