they make assumptions
innocent people get hurt
and it makes me sad

I'm a pinata
Why do you keep hitting me?
You have the candy

It's too bad I can't

It's too bad I can't

package and sell my regrets...

I'd be a rich man!

#HaikuChallenge (package) 55

Never out of time

Never out of time
Never out of ideas
Never through trying

#HaikuChallenge (out) 54

How am I feeling?

How am I feeling?
I rarely know what I feel—
only that I do

#HaikuChallenge (feel) 53

Our inner monsters

Our inner monsters
must be fed and acknowledged—
that keeps them docile

#HaikuChallenge (monster) 52

Positive people

Positive people
repel me therefore I am
likewise positive.

#HaikuChallenge (positive) 51

Nature doesn't rush,

Nature doesn't rush,
yet everything still happens.
Why do we not learn?

~after Lao Tzu

#HaikuChallenge (yet) 50

I have determined

I have determined
strip poker is the best of
all zero-sum games.

#HaikuChallenge (game) 49

Though we are apart

Though we are apart
this holy weekend, we are
all children of God.

#HaikuChallenge (apart) 48

Are all decisions

Are all decisions
either-or propositions?
I, for one, hope not.

#HaikuChallenge (either) 47

I saw Dad cry once.

I saw Dad cry once.
When they sealed grandma's casket
a single sob escaped him.

#NaPoWriMo (day 18, grief)

Grandpa always said,

Grandpa always said,

    "If you don't like the weather

     give it five minutes."

#NaPoWriMo (day 10, weather)

The only way to

The only way to
get the right answer is to
ask the right question.

#HaikuChallenge (ask) 46

Send me your money

Send me your money
and I'll send you salvation—
tax deductible!

#haikuchallenge  (send) 45b

The sad, sweet sounds of

The sad, sweet sounds of
the dying Leviathan
sent chills up my spine.

#HaikuChallenge (send) 45a

Humans seek to name

Humans seek to name
What we cannot understand
Fear of the unknown
        A name gives power
        Or the illusion of such

#tanka

you were never mine

you were never mine
you followed your heart elsewhere
                         i live with your ghost

#HaikuChallenge (ghost) 44

I call for an end

I call for an end
to false divides among us—
black, white, red, and blue

#HaikuChallenge (end) 43

I hope I'm around

I hope I'm around
long enough to forgive and
to be forgiven.

#HaikuChallenge (around) 42