Author: Carl Setzer

A blogger blogging from just north of Seattle.

Soaring To Mountaintops…Metaphorically

Carl Setzer

Upon a mountain
Longing to soar like eagles
Common metaphors

I regularly engage with a Twitter account titled “Baffled“. They post a near-daily Haiku Challenge. Today’s was “any haiku you want as long as it includes ‘mountain'”. Here’s my addition. With a side of snark.

 

Restful Sunday

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Today’s calmness comes
As lightly as these spring rains
Healing restfulness

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Suburban Trials

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I’m sitting, monk – like
Reading poets long silent
Chainsaw now raging

Strange Thing, Love

Carl Setzer

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Love is everything
Unconditional, power
All else is empty

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Sunrise Meditation

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Laying here
Sun not yet risen
Quietude dominates. 

Bushes outside
This window, soon
Bursting with the
Songs from vigorous
Birds. Oblivious
To their beauty.

They hear stories
Loneliness, violence,
Domination, love and death.

Songs that change daily
Yet remain constant.

Quietude vanishes into life. 

Happy Wednesday

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We’ve reached the middle
Two days before, then after
Apex of the hump

Seattle and heat

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Record setting heat
Seatlelites’ discomfort
Easily reached