Just Rewards

Life Hack Haiku #1

Basic courtesy;

In mobile facilities,

always sit to pee.

Verse and Response

The authors and artists involved in this cooperative effort post regularly on Instagram as @heartoftheday and @agarrabrant

A Quiet Witness

Being personal,

faith must be nourished within

before being shared.

Song of the Night Bird

Faith is a small bird

singing bravely in the dark

heralding the Dawn.

Un-Fortunate Aphorisms

* A recent meal ended with fortune cookies. Annoyed by their banality, I modified them, adding a counterpoint to make them, simultaneously more interesting and more accurate. Enjoy… or not!

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A good evening

Spent here in good company:

So much worse than expected

~

A friend will soon bring

Monumental surprises :

None of them welcome

~

Random chance meetings

Opens new doors to success:

But for someone else

~

Don’t put all your eggs

In a solitary box:

Someone will steal it

~

Charity begins

And ends at home, my children:

Life don’t give a damn

Falling Ever Downward

Ink black letters

fall hesitant at first,

marking naked page tops;

Droplets unconnected yet,

by purpose or intent.

In time, their presence there,

calls others to befriend them

adding to the depth, the weight,

pressing down upon the page

until it can’t contain them.

Now the words collect

into tiny rivulets,

scrawling narrow, crawling paths

seemingly at random,

As they come together

deepening their paths

like magnets on the march,

they gather others to them

weaving into deeper streams,

memes, ideas, and images.

And their power, thus enhanced,

they carve deeper furrows,

altering the landscape.

Flooding dusty fallow fields,

nourishing their blooming.

Onward, broader, faster now,

filled with surging portents,

deep with hidden meaning,

challenging all in their path

overtopping every bank

undermining old foundations

sweeping clean all obstacles

built by aged machinations

leaving clear and fertile fields

for future generations.

At last this surge comes to merge

with the vast and loving breast

of that bottomless expanse;

the never resting endless sea

we name our deep subconscious.

An Inconstant Measure

Quartz cannot command

time’s irregular advance;

it passing us by

in subjective intervals

dependent on attention.

Senryū 10 Oct 2022

Who new there could be

such fun to be had with ads;

Twisting their message.