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Memories of Metal Shop 

Carl Setzer

​Sitting

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A Haiku About Memories

Carl Setzer

Memories motion
Drifting about my psyche
Within the rain and fog

Seattle’s Alaskan Way Viaduct: A Haiku

Carl Setzer

​Concrete broken to dust

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Tonight’s Haiku: Remembering You

Carl Setzer

On the edge of dreams
I can see your eyes, briefly
Sadly, time’s mists win

Leaves upon the ground

Carl Setzer

Leaves upon the ground

Echos of summer fading

Memories remain

A Fourth Of July Haiku

Carl Setzer

Many memories

Explosions of brilliant colors 

So much has faded

Sunday Morning, June 3, 2018

Carl Setzer

​Now I’m awake 

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Memories Unbidden 

Carl Setzer
Edvard Munch's
Edvard Munch’s “Melancholy”

Memories come
Unbidden

Ghosts of my youth
Painful moments

Choices I’ve made
But not understood

There’s wisdom there
Not just misery

Forgive the boy
That I was

And see inside
My heart

Now I understand
My internalized mind

Echoes of fears and failures
This early spring morn

Daytime Memories

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Sunlight has climbed out
The forces of daytime surge
Hints of blessed nights

 

 

An evening walk

Carl Setzer

As the darkness falls
Light echoing the day’s joy
Fading to slumber