Category: Poetry

A Morning Meditation: Jealousy

Carl Setzer


Today’s Haiku:

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p style=”font-family:’Helvetica Neue’, Arial, sans, sans-serif;”>Jealousy’s dangerous voice

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p style=”font-family:’Helvetica Neue’, Arial, sans, sans-serif;”>It is an easy trap, losing myself into comparisons. The resulting lack of focus damages my journey. Seek, then, clarity and my eyes pointed towards love. 

Lies I tell myself 

Carl Setzer

Echoing voices

Brief flickers of

Light behind my

Eyes seeing potential

Birthed by different

Choices of a life

Not lived

Caught unwary

Tinged these

With regret

Painful loss

Of a false future

A lie told to

Myself

Though I love haiku, I also love creating longer works and free verse. 

My family, trampled by the flu 

Carl Setzer

​My son has pretty much recovered from the latest stomach bug…now it’s my wife’s turn 

Abruptly awake 

Weary of microbes cruel work 

Fearful I am next 

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Eternal Motion 

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I had fun with the image for this haiku 

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p style=”font-family:’Helvetica Neue’, Arial, sans, sans-serif;”>Opposites seeking balance 

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p style=”font-family:’Helvetica Neue’, Arial, sans, sans-serif;”>Infinity’s quest 

Believe in Yourself: A Haiku 

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p style=”font-family:’Helvetica Neue’, Arial, sans, sans-serif;”>*I’m saddened when self-doubt cripples dreams. 

Parenting Woes

Carl Setzer

This winter’s night calls

Unasked for and painful gifts

The vomit fairy

Ah, awake with a sick kid. 

An unpleasant night time filling my time for rest. 

Tuesday night’s haiku 

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​As the light now fades

This frantic day now finds peace

Music liberates 

A Monday Haiku 

Carl Setzer

​Monday brings so much 

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Birth and Rebirth

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p style=”font-family:’Helvetica Neue’, Arial, sans, sans-serif;”>Life, then death: reborn