Category: Poetry

Today’s Haiku

Carl Setzer3 Comments
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.

An evening haiku

Carl Setzer 
streetlight’s reflection
ripples across the puddles
windchime’s gently tones

Tonight’s Haiku: February 22, 2025

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within the darkness 
listening to the rainfall 
the night's progression

Tonight’s Haiku: February 11, 2025

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in the bitter cold
the night moving with such grace 
soon dawn approaches

Daily haiku: February 9, 2025

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a few hints of snow
guarded by the bitter cold
graced by the starlight

Haiku: February 8, 2025

Carl Setzer 
sunlight's gentle way
moving slowly over snow 
clouds cover the sky

Another day with snow. This snow, though, has settled in. Nothing new during the day.

I created this in Canva, which is a lot of fun.

Today’s Haiku: Thursday, February 6, 2025

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the morning snowfall
soon to be trampled by life
fading in the sun

The past few mornings have featured snow. Usually it’s melted by early afternoon. I’m grateful that it’s not become a giant ball of ice overnight.

Today’s Haiku: January 26, 2025

Carl Setzer 
sunlight in the cold
bitter frost upon the grass
the grace of my coat

It’s been a cold couple of days here on the PNW. Looks like it’s been quite cold (brutal?) throughout a lot of the US. I’ve had the additional annoyance of fighting a nasty and belligerent cold. The remaining symptom: coughing. I’ve had to reschedule one dentist appointment, and that looks like it’ll become two. Sigh…

I hope 2025 has been kinder to you.

Tonight’s Haiku: January

Carl Setzer3 Comments 
winter moves forward
cold air underneath the clouds
this infectious gloom

Today’s Haiku: January 3, 2024

Carl Setzer 
within winter's depths 
and sunlight's power reduced 
life resists the gloom