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Priorities

June 2, 2015 Carl Setzer

An empty focus
Driving towards reflexive goals
Neglecting one’s soul

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Posted in Personal ReflectionsTagged Daily Haiku, life, poetry

Progress

May 31, 2015 Carl Setzer1 Comment

Daring to speak words,
Empowerment of progress.
Seeking real change.

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Posted in Personal ReflectionsTagged Daily Haiku, poetry, progress

Flu Haiku

May 27, 2015 Carl Setzer1 Comment

Germs descended here
Embattled body withers
May healing soon come

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Posted in Personal ReflectionsTagged Daily Haiku, getms, poetry, sickness

History beckons

May 24, 2015 Carl Setzer2 Comments

Upon windy voice,
Echoes of history call;
Resist cyclic doom.

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Posted in Personal ReflectionsTagged Daily Haiku, history, poetry

Early morning wakefulness

May 21, 2015 Carl Setzer

Still, fears rise up
Providing discomfort
And misery; wakefulness
When I seek sleep.

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Posted in Personal ReflectionsTagged fear, free verse, poetry

Reality

May 20, 2015 Carl Setzer

See culture’s mirror
Brutality’s rough edges
Reality’s pain

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Posted in Personal ReflectionsTagged brutality, Daily Haiku, poetry, reality, society

Welcoming

May 18, 2015 Carl Setzer

Simple acts of welcome
Gentleness, arms over shoulders
Creating a glorious web
Safety, enabling growth

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Posted in Personal ReflectionsTagged compassion, poetry

Another Week

May 18, 2015 Carl Setzer1 Comment

Potential
  Sits upon the edge
    Waiting
      Waiting
    For the gift
      Of action

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Posted in Personal ReflectionsTagged poetry

Nighttime in Shanghai

May 16, 2015 Carl Setzer

Nighttime in Shanghai
Light escaping darkness
Glittering brilliance

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Posted in Personal ReflectionsTagged China, Daily Haiku, lights, poetry, Shanghai

Seattle’s Skies

May 16, 2015 Carl Setzer

Misty clouds drifting
Stretched by fir and cedar boughs
Grasping longingly

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Posted in Personal ReflectionsTagged Daily Haiku, poetry, Seattle

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