One cannot achieve greatness
Adhering to the status quo.
Mediocrity, numbing the
Quiet desperation, drifting
Through life barely creates
Fertilizer for poppies.
Author: Carl Setzer
Haiku
Night’s Comforts
In the night’s darkness
Sometimes I find strange comfort
Peace through self knowledge.
Who’s Deceived?
Within deception
Perhaps lies a deeper truth,
Hidden in plain site.
Deceiving
Within deception,
Lies, deeply, underlying truth,
Powerful learning.
Via Negativa
I try responding
To negativity
By facing this rage,
Sadness, misery, and
Acting against it with
Compassion and love.
For water is what cools
Fire.
Focus
To live in this moment,
Ephemeral, moving,
An aim easy to lose.
Focus, my friends,
Focus is key.
Ferguson
Violence doesn’t heal.
Tis a short term thing,
Self-inflicted grief
Building upon agony.
Simmering wreckage,
Quite close to home.
New destruction layered
Upon the old.
Gargantuan pachyderm
Calmly sits,
Ignored.
Thanksgiving
Gluttony aside,
Appreciation abounds.
Happy Thanksgiving!
November’s Grace
Glancing upwards now,
A graying sky calming me.
Rain speckles my lens.
Winter’s Caress
Winter’s icy breath
Haunts my dreams.
Awoke, strange chill
Lingering upon my cheek
Arms, sheets, caressing
Silently, presence insisting
Upon awareness.
Carl Setzer: Word Shaper 