Tag: poem

02/25/26 A New Haiku for a New Day

Photo Credit: Specna Arms

Given a weapon
Told to fulfill his “International Duty”
Tore villages to pieces
To return as pieces in a coffin
For a broken mother

Blast from the Past:

Killing the “bad guy”
As if only destruction
Will curb deviants.

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

02/19/26 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