Base it on a faith // We won’t be going back now // Each day further on — Great times of puzzles // Interesting times’ dilemmas // Serious times rejoice — STOP Pick cards from a hat // Make policy assignments // No one can predict — STOP Schizophrenia // But of splendor, not of […]
a reposting from poet Dark Matter, “Springtime”
“Leaving my rest to awaken
and see what will become
of us all.
Now, I could remain asleep and be
bewildered and bothered by it all
until my own departure
but the leaves are coming up
from the messy dirt and they
express an imperative:” […]
4 postcard haiku + Some Technical Griping 🔮🌕🌺🍀⚡️
high levels of joy / to each his own & it takes all kinds / better living thru ____________. / organization / nets of meaning stretch over / all symbol systems / Planet of oceans / Deoxygenation threats / Fixing climate change / how tragic & sweet / Whale and cat at end of Flow […]
Serious Questions Multiply / Layers of Smoke & Mirrors
Postcard Poems and Images plus a digital Collage. /
Humans of New York /
Tunnel of Love & Space Mountain Rollercoaster /
Non-sequiturs & Surrealism /
Implementations of Magical Forces
Reality Bubbles, Rootedness, Clouding of Consciousness – Postcard Poems
This island reality or that tunnel reality or that life experience bubble or another media panorama or social nexusAll the written word is by human hands Rootedness with your feet in the here & now & your head sensing both the near & present & the far horizons or might besWhether skyscraper, coal mine, or […]
Elaborate & Twisty, Dark of the Moon, 2 postcard poems, after midnight 3/4/2025
The dark of the moon passing over headThe deepest lull is the time to plant seedsAll is stillAll is unilluminatedendarkenedSome things are best kept private Elaborate & twistyI see an interesting mind approachingZip code by random.org yet unselectedWho shall it be? haikujustforyou.com …. coming soon. Send surprises with unique poems written just for your order […]
Consider the Chinyingi Footbridge
Excerpt from the award winning 2023 novel Community Board by Tara Conklin, used without permission, pages 164-168 [ Blogger’s note: The footbridge, Brother Crispin, the fatal accident and the story of building it are all real. Darcy Clipper and Marcus Dash-La Grand are of course fictional. Community Board is a novel ] [ . . […]
Policy Ideas to Unite Our Communities
One of two main text/image blocks I’m currently printing & attaching to my postcards (although this one has no image, I had too much to say!). The stuff handwritten on the left edge and the ‘fortune cookie’ glyph sequence are unique to each card. The other one has the last paragraph from this text block […]
Ooohh … Sick burn
Volodomyr Zelensky and JD Vance appear in Wikipedia’s top 5 English most read articles today, upstaging Donald Trump and Elon Musk. I’ve never seen Elon Musk in that list and I don’t *think* I’ve seen DJT in it. Still, a tragedy for Ukraine (&& now Trump’s ego). Overheard American Ukraine War blogger Jake Broe from […]
Postcard Poems – selected recents sent to Congresspersons & to a little town in Tennessee (because I felt like it)
Suspension of beliefConsider the counterfactualWhat would have brought it about?What would it be like while it was happening?What implications and consequences would it have?Ask a voter. See the wheels turning. Too many chancesEasy chancesChances not to screw upSquandered, Wasted, turned to Wilful, Mindless DestructionBreak the Government!By all means!Feel the consequences[… time to switch parties …] […]
Lost in Mist 