while the sunlight wanes
passing through the Western clouds
the birds quieting
Category: Poetry
This morning’s haiku: July 27, 2026
dawn drifts through clouds
the raindrops begin to glow
the birds awaken
So, we’re into the final stretch of July. Saturday we flip the calendar into August. I’ll enjoy these summer days, and the respite offered by clouds with rain.
Evening Haiku
as the sunlight fades
drifts over faded rose petals
the evening air cools
Mindset morning haiku
Today’s haiku: March 17, 2026
the robins return
to this land starving for grace
and beauty's blessing
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
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

