Ground down from despair
Filled with negativity
Hating the word “fun”
Author: Carl Setzer
Haiku
A Binary Haiku
One zero zero
Zero one zero one one
One one zero one
Fearfulness
Distant echoes play
Emotions raised from my past
Words obscured by time.
Insecurities
Insecurities
Flickering across my mind
Sleep brutalized
Today’s Haiku Challenge: Long
Critical to climb
Ascend to the greatest heights
Thus see the long view
My response to “Today’s @baffled #HaikuChallenge: any haiku you like, as long as it has the word ‘long’ in it….” on Twitter.
Walking Memories: A Haiku
Reflect on myself
Walking upon these same streets
Changed and new blended.
Walking Memories
Walking upon old roads
My childhood feet trode.
Memories, feelings lurking
Forgotten flit forth, bird-like;
A flicker upon consciousness
Vanishing like morning fog
Leaving no trace save the
Dream-like phantom reflection
Of my youth.
A Spring Morning
Sunlight drifts on wind
Cool intensity floating
Flowers greet the morn
Soul’s Creation
Journeys create souls
Deepening our deepest depths
First step: send ourselves.
Childhood’s Collapse
Daily decay’s
Raging presence
Death’s fragrance
Fills me deeply.
Then that morning’s
Ragged breathing,
Brutal truth of
Impending silence.
Carl Setzer: Word Shaper 