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.
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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.
A Spring Morning
Sunlight drifts on wind
Cool intensity floating
Flowers greet the morn
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.
Thought of the Day: Pursuing Greatness
Nothing great ever happened by rigidly adhering to the status quo.
Thought of the Day: Pursuing Greatness
Nothing great ever happened by rigidly adhering to the status quo.
Childhood’s Collapse
Daily decay’s
Raging presence
Death’s fragrance
Fills me deeply.
Then that morning’s
Ragged breathing,
Brutal truth of
Impending silence.
Kites
Air moving with grace
Bright colors dance lightly now
Resisting still air