Walking past a smoker
So very easy to judge
Addiction’s impacts
Yet who am I
To critique anyone’s
Frailties?
Category: Poetry
Black History Month Meditation 1: Langston Hughes
Reading Langston Hughes
And about his vocational drifting
I have a thing for the wanderer
My own career meanders
Weaving back and forth
Across green fertile fields
Vibrancy within each step
I’m spending Black History Month exploring black ports and their great works. Langston Hughes came to mind first. I’m also thinking of Maya Angelou and Toni Morrison. Do you have ideas? I’d love to hear about up-and-coming poets.
Up before dawn
Awake before dawn
In winter that is normal
Dawn’s not soon enough
Worried about the future
This morning’s haiku: Morning Potential
Morning potential
Before the day’s chaos starts
Plans get distorted
Darkness Descending
Darkness descending
That living within our hearts
Often thrives at night
A meditation on love
A tactical strike
Evading the defenses
Safe within their heart?
Live for the light
i live for the light
dancing within the grey clouds
here upon the shore
Life Balanced?
Work morning ’til night
Efficiency’s tyranny
Our rest becomes lost
Do you feel your work life is balanced with all the rest of what’s important?
Today’s light
Today’s light is gone
Faded into memory
The air’s cool stillness
Carl Setzer: Word Shaper 