Orcndwarf

Number 23

Haiku a day #23 Unwelcome When all is quiet, Black with night and phantasm - Someone at your door…

Haiku a day #22 Memory Bits of fine edges - Flashes of a face; a star: Once the now - now flown.

Number 21

Haiku a day #21 Asking 4a Friend Where do my footprints Go? Did they fade behind me? Are future steps stone?

Number 20

Haiku a day #20 Nook Stacked chunk of pages - Quiet room, time running spare: Paper-traced friction.

Number 19

Haiku a day #19 Too Much to Do Rampage over me. Crush my bones, ye paper stacks - Till roughed-up brain bleeds.

Number 18

Haiku a day # 18 Snow Falls Crystalline air fluffs - Softly padding the ground. Buffered silent mounds.

The 5th graders are writing their first 5-paragraph essays. So excited! They’re looking good. I love seeing them learn to write, especially in this world where people can just put in a prompt and get some mediocre writing. But to do it themselves?! 🥰

Number 17

Haiku a day #17 Bright Silver, streaking blue. Palisades of cumulus - Vast, the stretch of sky.

America has been devastating to many Americans lately…

Haiku a day #16 Survive White-hot radiate. Peaceful while they strike us down - Constitution maimed.

Haiku a day #15 Unimaginable Ice cold street murder. Mental patients given guns - Gestapo steroids.

Actually # 14…

This is number 14, actually.

Haiku a day #13 Aspens Flaking, paper trunk. Wind-struck leaves an orchestra - Green buzzing songs pop.