Poetry – Carl Setzer: Word Shaper

February 3, 2026

waiting for dawn
eastern hills remain dark 
rattling raindrops

as gentle mists fall
streetlights flicker through the dreams 
the song of the night

mighty moose minions

mitigate mouse munitions

mad malevolence

I opted for something alliterative today. And something absurdist. Just wanted to have some fun. I hope it amused you like it did me.

the bumblebee lives
underneath the same sunlight
as the hummingbird

another spring day 
cherry blossoms scattering
fading memories

Wrote this one early this morning. Created this image in Canva.

Anyway, thanks for reading.

sleep’s evasive
the early morning darkness
hiding raindrops

Yeah, I should be asleep,

I’d prefer to be asleep

Yet that is not

My reality.

the sunlight fading
while the grace of spring flowers
bursts upon the trees

awakened by self-doubt

criticizing all I've done

so I face within

resisting these words

embracing all that I am

keep moving forward