Category: Poetry

An Update

Carl Setzer2 Comments

I’ve been thinking about something of a rebrand. Basically, want to align different elements of my web presence with elements of my life. The professional side, the poet, and, well, everything else. What I’ve decided is to distribute my content across three sites (I already held these domains)

CarlSetzer.com has the most SEO for my name, so I wanted recruiters and those looking for freelance talent to find me and my professional content quickly.

CarlSetzer.net started as a poetry site, so it’s really just coming back to the beginning. I just brought over all the poetry I’ve written over the past few years to get this page up-to-speed. This will tie into most of my social media accounts as that mostly been poetry.

NotJustSeattle.com fits me as someone who considers himself a lifelong Seattleite, but who was born in Newport, Rhode Island, and spent a lot of his childhood travelling the country. I’ll figure out this page soon and start updating with energy.

I’m not planning on porting my subscribers over, but am amenable if that’s what you want me to do. If I did that, I guess I would bring everyone over to CarlSetzer.net, and most of you seem to have connected with me over my haiku. Let me know what you think.

So, I’d love it if you popped over to the other accounts and subscribed. It’d mean the world to me. With all this, I’m planning on relaunching my haiku a day series on CarlSetzer.net. Come and join me there!

Today’s Haiku: November 4, 2025

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mighty moose minions

mitigate mouse munitions

mad malevolence

I opted for something alliterative today. And something absurdist. Just wanted to have some fun. I hope it amused you like it did me.

Tonight’s Haiku

Carl Setzer3 Comments

the bumblebee lives
underneath the same sunlight
as the hummingbird

Today’s Haiku

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spring’s forward motion
making it’s way towards summer
the bees so nimble

A morning haiku

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the morning birdsong
pulling dawn’s grace to the west
we begin anew

Tonight’s Haiku

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another spring day 
cherry blossoms scattering
fading memories

Wrote this one early this morning. Created this image in Canva.

Anyway, thanks for reading.

Early morning haiku

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sleep’s evasive
the early morning darkness
hiding raindrops

Yeah, I should be asleep,

I’d prefer to be asleep

Yet that is not

My reality.

Tonight’s Haiku

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the sunlight fading
while the grace of spring flowers
bursts upon the trees

Starting the day

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awakened by self-doubt

criticizing all I've done

so I face within  

resisting these words

embracing all that I am

keep moving forward

Today’s Haiku

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haiku text: clouds dancing, moving to the north, healing spring rains.

This is a photo I took a few weeks ago on my Google Pixel, and the post below (Instagram) inspired me to write something today:

(third photo on the carousel)

It’s funny to me how I feel compelled to justify my work, my writing, photography, poetry. Really, I’m supposed to monetize EVERYTHING! If it’s not generating income, or promoting my business, then I shouldn’t do it. However, I know, in my heart, that I need to create stuff.

I feel compelled to post daily, but I’m hamstrung by the needs above, as well as the larger issues of imposter syndrome and all that.

So, I took the photo above and added the haiku in Canva. I do enjoy that, but I think I need to explore other tools besides Canva. Heck, maybe I need to start doing these in Photoshop again. Get those skills back up.