In the wake of losing my job, I cancelled a bunch of subscriptions, including my CrossFit membership. Instead I've been rucking, which basically means going for a long walk down to the lake with a weighted backpack to make it more challenging. Since my daughter currently sleeps in, she no longer joins me, which leaves me plenty of time to think ( Read more... )

Well, if part 1 was mostly haiku about poetry and part 2 was haiku about rock & roll, this third and final part of my review of the 218+ haiku I wrote in 2018 is mostly about space, with some radio and movies and social commentary thrown in as an aside ( Read more... )

The descriptions of the various poetic forms used in Jazz ABZ calls Haiku "a dance on the blade" intended to "make the reader perceive the essence of a moment of experience." It goes on to say that they "usually invoke the physical senses and often mentions time or season." Whatever their other merits, the three haiku I called out in part 1 don't ( Read more... )

I wrote 218+ haiku in 2018 as part of birthday card project. A haiku is a Japanese poetical form often but not always rendered in English as three lines of 5, 7 and 5 syllables. Technically, it's also supposed to include a seasonal reference and a "cutting word" that at the end of the first or second line, which means I probably wrote a lot of ( Read more... )

I'm driving home from the gym ( Read more... )

The trees
bare of all leaves

My dog
shivering under the blankets

My cup
steaming on the table

Autumn
by cynic51

About two years ago somebody in my neighborhood lost a dog. Posters for a truly astounding ugly Chinese Crested Dog named Banzai went up on poles throughout the neighborhood. I have no idea if Banzai ever made it home, but at some point in the last three months the last one of those posters finally was torn down or just disintegrated through sheer ( Read more... )