the robins return
to this land starving for grace
and beauty's blessing
Category: Poetry
An Update
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 (this site…professional content)
- CarlSetzer.net (for haiku and other poetry)
- NotJustSeattle.com (my blog for the other random things)
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
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
the bumblebee lives
underneath the same sunlight
as the hummingbird
Today’s Haiku
making it’s way towards summer
the bees so nimble
A morning haiku
pulling dawn’s grace to the west
we begin anew
Tonight’s Haiku
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
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
the sunlight fading
while the grace of spring flowers
bursts upon the trees
Starting the day
awakened by self-doubt
criticizing all I've done
so I face within
resisting these words
embracing all that I am
keep moving forward