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Tag: Daily Haiku

This Rain Battered Night In Seattle

April 7, 2017April 7, 2017 Carl SetzerLeave a comment

Rain batters this night
Streetlights reflect in puddles
Madly rippling

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Posted in PoetryTagged calm, Daily Haiku, night

Insomnia Sucks 

April 7, 2017 Carl SetzerLeave a comment

Frustrations flowing 

Exhausted, yet cannot sleep 

Insomnia sucks 

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Posted in PoetryTagged Daily Haiku, exhaustion, sleep, weariness

Dawn’s Request 

April 6, 2017 Carl SetzerLeave a comment

Dawn has a request, 

To love it just as deeply 

As we do the Night

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Posted in PoetryTagged Daily Haiku, dawn, night

My offering: a small prayer 

April 6, 2017 Carl SetzerLeave a comment

So much suffering 

Offering up a small prayer 

Holding back the tide?

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Posted in PoetryTagged Daily Haiku, faith, prayer

The joys of being surrounded by youth 

April 5, 2017 Carl SetzerLeave a comment


Surrounded by youth 

I delight in watching them 

Make the world better

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Posted in PoetryTagged Daily Haiku, joy, senryu, youth

Dreams and Aspirations 

April 4, 2017 Carl SetzerLeave a comment

A challenge with dreams 

Knowing whether they are yours 

Or superimposed 

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Posted in PoetryTagged aspirations, Daily Haiku, dreams

The Motion Of Work

April 4, 2017April 4, 2017 Carl SetzerLeave a comment
The zen of living a working life

A vigorous morn

Now mania settling

Getting the work done

 

 

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Posted in PoetryTagged Daily Haiku, work

Unsettling dreams 

April 4, 2017 Carl SetzerLeave a comment


​Unsettled dreaming 

Awakened much too early

Anxiety wins 

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Posted in PoetryTagged anxiety, Daily Haiku, dreams

Mushrooms 

April 4, 2017 Carl SetzerLeave a comment

​In dark woods thriving 

Nourished by the richest earth

Glorious nature

Distasteful flavors

Yet I find them beautiful

With potential death

 

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Posted in PoetryTagged Daily Haiku, nature

Gregorian Chant

April 3, 2017April 4, 2017 Carl SetzerLeave a comment

Gregorian chant

Reaches deep within my soul

Carries me upward

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Posted in PoetryTagged Christian, Daily Haiku, Gregorian chant, music, religion

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