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Fearfulness

Distant echoes play
Emotions raised from my past
Words obscured by time.

Today’s Haiku Challenge: Long

Critical to climb
Ascend to the greatest heights
Thus see the long view

My response to “Today’s @baffled #HaikuChallenge: any haiku you like, as long as it has the word ‘long’ in it….” on Twitter.

Walking Memories: A Haiku

Reflect on myself
Walking upon these same streets
Changed and new blended.

Walking Memories

Walking upon old roads
My childhood feet trode.
Memories, feelings lurking
Forgotten flit forth, bird-like;
A flicker upon consciousness
Vanishing like morning fog
Leaving no trace save the
Dream-like phantom reflection
Of my youth.

Soul’s Creation

Journeys create souls
Deepening our deepest depths
First step: send ourselves.

Meditation: Mastery

Impatience destroys quality;
Feeds the tyrrany of the “NOW”,
Raging inferno of immediate perfection.
Devaluing mastery’s glorious gifts.

Quality bears manifold delights
Ones lost upon our gone-in-a-blink minds.
We’ve lost something powerful,
Traded for empty consumer shells.

The sculptor’s calloused hands
Have no short-cut. Each nick,
Wear, rub of creation, crafting
Builds knowledge, deepest skills.

Mastery: quality can’t be bought
It must be earned with each step,
Journeying: critical. Motions,
Thousands, in summation: gestalt.