Night moves off to rest
Day is stepping forward now
I rise to meet it
Author: Carl Setzer
Haiku
Resisting Fear
Facing down my fears
Resisting despair’s summons
Living by my terms
Fearing Our Fears?
Decisions from fear
Often lead to deep regret
Hmmm…fearing our fears?
This Summer’s Morning
Awoke by the rooster’s call
Train horn echoing miles to me
White noise from cars
Hurtling down the freeway
Birds speaking much as they have
For millennia uncounted
A look into the boundaries
Of infinity
Bot’s Siren Song
Inbox announces
Porn-bots sing their siren song
Empty of beauty
Raven’s Gaze
And raven spies me
This face gazing from the stone
An ancient presence
A Haiku for Cicero
My dear Cicero
The glorious written word
Delights my soul, too
Seen outside Bellingham’s Village Books.
Within destruction’s song
within destruction’s songs
lie the call of rebirth
phoenix’s prophetic
return from the flames
oblivion
Summer’s Evening
In the park’s silence
Evening’s calmness filling it
Summer’s light fading
Perhaps
Perhaps I cannot
Change much in
This broken world
Where cynicism
Valued more
Than compassion.
Perhaps.
Carl Setzer: Word Shaper 