Daily Haiku – Page 117 – Carl Setzer: Word Shaper

Mastery

To gently master
Beauty of sunlight, breezes.
Saintly prayers for me.

Sad, this arid heart
Free of disappointment’s pain
Free from tears’ moisture

Flames lick upon us
Mammoth blasts of destruction
Summer’s darker side

Let go of anger
Escape pride and envy’s grasp
Such is peace’s path

Perhaps the best way
To better photography,
Awake to good light

Upon life’s edges
Evading mundanity.
Lovely uniqueness

On a zendo floor
Awoken by gentle chime
Tranquility hums

This is puzzling:
Why it is humanity
That’s most inhuman?

Fangs dripping venom
Savage bites wound deeply
Caustic moving air

Thunder’s false calling
Empty promise of rainfall
Deception’s sad rage