Author: Carl Setzer

Haiku

We learn more by listening then by talking 

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We are quick to speak 

So often finishing 

Sentences of others 

Missing details of,

Well, everything.

By rushing, everything

Is slower.

Reality often is 

Counterintuitive, I guess. 

Slowing, focusing, listening, 

Focusing on that listening 

Listening to UNDERSTAND

Not only more productive;

Relationships built.

Summer Solstice

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Upon this solstice

Daylight may seem to have won 

Yet we still must sleep
Welcome to summer! I hope yours is filled with wonder and whatever gives you delight. 

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Evening Music Plays 

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The saxophone plays

I picture women, dancing

With suit clad men

Echoes from the Beats

And their Bebopping 

Friends

Passion and Tranquility

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Some draw 

Strength from 

Passion 

Others from 

Tranquility 

Both are not 

Only valid 

But critical 

Evening Of Jazz

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Evening jazz fills me 

Warmed by memories 

Happier times of my youth 

A bountiful world, opportunity 

Filled to the brim, perhaps even 

Overflowing. So much perspective 

Grown, eyes different…in so many

Ways. So many ways, indeed.