I’ve come full circle
but billions of miles away
every day from me
haiku about this and that
so you will know me
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77, 25, 24, 19
15, 31, 10, 7, 9
three-hundred-eighth day
he rested from his labors
because… you know… life
For the first time in 2023, I let a day go by without posting a haiku.
two decades ago
they arrived — small little lives
like acorns, they’ve grown
I remember the day my wife and I brought our twin daughters home. They seemed so tiny and fragile in their car seats…
deer in the bean field
robbing the farmer’s harvest
nibble by nibble
Today’s haiku comes yet again from sights seen during my commute. I pass by three soybean fields in a valley every morning and…
cold brew in a glass
watching as the half and half
drifts slowly downward
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Sometimes I want to take the time to thoroughly explain a haiku. Today is not one of those days. If you want to go deeper…
driving aimlessly
drawing my own mental map
as the miles tick by
I tried several different approaches to explaining this haiku, but I must say they fell flat. Perhaps getting straight to the…
looking for trouble
eating some coffee ice cream
after 8 p.m.
We recently took an overnight trip out of town and stopped by a famous ice cream shop in the area we are traveling through. Perusing…
too often, anger
our first reaction, but the
last choice we would make
I don’t know that there’s much I can add to this one, so I’ll let it stand on its own.
before they happen
who knows which remembrances
will last forever?
My family and I were traveling down a sparsely-traveled rural four-lane highway this past weekend when we happened upon three…