General Musing – Page 13 – Carl Setzer: Word Shaper

A Goodnight Haiku

Eyelids drooping down
My weariness at day’s end
Preparing for bed

The sky bright
Through many clouds
Moving quickly
Above the trees
Sunlight caressed
By the wind

A gentle breeze blows

Branches scrape against my house

This brusque goose-like cry

Startles me abruptly

Life is so complex
The beauty within haiku
Ah! Simplicity!

Once I was told
Poetry’s power
Comes from framing
Life so uniquely
That people see
Truths they’re hiding from

Experimenting with using the graphic to separate my prose from the poem. What do you think?

Listening to Satie
These binary colored keys
Dancing summer light

I always envision ImImpressionistic artists as I Lilisten to Satie. Just seems so perfect. Like Bach in cathedrals.

Moonlight hides from me

Behind the rain laden clouds

Spots on my glasses

Lightness
Upon the
Summer breeze
Now an echo
Of a forgotten
Dream

Germs are in control
Obediently I sleep
Rest eluding me

Ah, fighting germs again. A slow lingering cough my main symptom, a long with my lack of energy.

It pains me
Envisioning my journals
Beloved words capturing my soul
Mouldering in my absence
As I fade to dust