[…] If you want happiness
you must remind yourself
that you are valuable.
God gave you feet for a reason,
and cars are damned expensive!
Year: 2025
The Revolt, Ever to Collect Its Due
A poem with a more concrete narrative than most from my book Synaptic Syntactic. Read more from Synaptic Syntactic by checking out the posts tagged Synaptic Syntactic. Buy the whole book in one neat offline package with no clicking around page loads at BookBaby or Synaptic Syntactic on Amazon, Kobo, Barnes & Noble, Apple iBooks, […]
HaikuJustForYou.com
6 of these are getting made into 6×4″ postcards to be used (hopefully, if there are buyers!) for my attempt at turning this postcard thing into a business for haikujustforyou.com. The puzzle girl was made by WordPress’ AI and that card will have no indications of where or who its from so as to mystify […]
Dissolved Paranoias
Something has changed
I know not what
One beer no longer triggers
Days of drunkenness
Certain paranoias
Seem to dissolve
To-Do List No. 2
Each day cultivate joy
Check the troubles of the day at your doorstep each evening
Pause before going through
Remember your purpose & value
To-Do List No. 1
Each day without fear
Put together what joy you can
Self-assemble satisfaction
Take chances on embarrassment
Boldly talk to strangers
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Do That Which Springs Immediately to Hand
[…]
Lessons learned, no self-reproach
Do not worry, instead merely –
Do that which springs immediately to hand
Deflating
[…] Sense of self-importance
Collapsing inward today
Together with excess paranoia
Diminishment of terms to social media […]
Threatening Cloudbursts / Don’t Let Them Steal Your Joy
Haiku from my postcard art and activism project, ongoing since 12/30/2015 spin cycle machinesdont let them steal joy from youcharms, sparkles, & stars threatening cloudburstsDont let them steal joy from youKindness increments transfer of limitssparkling infinitesimalsfragments of kindness happily dancingnow dont let them steal our joytoday is a new day featured image source material: Thorn […]
5 postcard haiku
Objective hindrance / Clutter blocks your actions hard / Psychologically Pleasure Principle / Ring toss explosives layup / Happy days ahead Every time you choose / Quantum entanglement pops / Energy is real Neither a phantom / Nor a Hallucinatory Djinn / Drug induced {Blank Space} Inflationary / Tranquilizer Episodes / Fill in the blank […]
Lost in Mist 