Daily Haiku – Page 136 – Carl Setzer: Word Shaper

Fireworks

Clouds flickering bright
For a moment, each color
Too fast for dreaming.

Facing starry night
Feeling dreams unfolding, lights,
Gently blowing winds.

Unilateral,
These choices, by their nature
Are unjust. Power.

Bits singing softly,
Across rivers of copper.
Electrons delight.

Maybe, just maybe
We will let compassion live
Deeply within us.

Wise blender of words
Crafting meaning from the wind.
Lost in summer’s song.

Out in the distance
From memory’s furthest edge.
A train whistle.

Fears harken, inside,
Rising unbidden, no care.
Destruction they bear.

Crawling slowly stills,
Body encompassed by crust.
Transformation lives.

Sunlight rages on,
Oblivious of the drained
Souls of the machine