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Contrasting Cruelty and Beauty: A Morning Haiku
Cruelty is easy
Creating beauty? Hard work
This is my focus
Facing fear, putting it in its place
Fears can speak loudly
We must learn to not let them
Paralyze our will
My body wants to sleep, but not my mind
Now the night moves in
My body wanting to sleep
My mind resisting
An evening haiku
This night now ending
Time to calm my random thoughts
And embrace my rest
Seattle’s Smoke: A Haiku
A crescent moon
Tinted red by the wind’s
California remnants
Anxiety and Mindless Guilt
Our hearts torture us
Pronouncing us quite guilty
Anxiety’s cruel
Lovers of Violence
We love violence
Romance of the gunslinger
Murderous outlaws
This morning’s meditation
Circumstances speak
As I lay within my bed
Seeing life’s beauty
LISTENING To Music
As youth I chose
To deeply explore music
Each word critical
Music is critical to me. For my teenage years, I focused my study there. Well, as best as I could focus at that age. Music means so very much to me. Understanding the way lyrics, melody and harmony intersect for the good of the story carried great value.
I seek to recapture that. Spent some time this morning enjoying it again. Until life’s demands intruded. Soon, I’ll return. These delights critical to my soul.
Carl Setzer: Word Shaper 