Tag: Kindness

A morning haiku

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

Stirring Kindness: A Senryu

Carl Setzer

A senryu on kindness

we disdain kindness

rage: this visage of power

now learn gentleness

The Paradigm of Rage

Carl Setzer

​I reject the paradigm of rage 

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A Meditation On Beauty, And Our Cruel Nature

Carl Setzer

Life’s immense beauty
Gets overshadowed sometimes
By crass destruction

It concerns me, at times, how much we prefer destructive rhetoric over the positive. There are times I wonder if we, as a group, know how. 


Kindness spoken 

Carl Setzer

​Perhaps 

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