Posted in Holidays, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2026, Emancipation Proclamation, haiku, Juneteenth, poem on June 19, 2026| Leave a Comment »
Happy Juneteenth, everyone! If you’re interested in the history behind the holiday celebrating the effective end of legalized slavery in the United States, I’ve written about it before.
This year, I’m marking the day with a biracial poem.
Half of me is glad
to be free. Half is glad I’m
not holding the chain.
Here’s to freedom, for us all.
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Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2026, haiku, haiku the news, Thoughts, writing on February 11, 2026| 2 Comments »
First, hold this truth close
there may be demons on earth
but there are saints too.
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Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2026, haiku, Thoughts on January 28, 2026| Leave a Comment »
Cold diamonds sparkling
Worth more than treasures untold
Bright sunshine on snow.
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Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, haiku, poem, sentiment distilled, writing on December 11, 2025| Leave a Comment »
With crisp sunbright snow
on a cardinal’s red cape
winter welcomes you.
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Posted in Holidays, Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, death is inevitable but so is beauty, haiku, writing on October 31, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Live this moment
Feel this day this sun this breath
I loved those things too.
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Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, creativity, haiku, just thinking, poem, Thoughts, Writers, writing on October 29, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Sometimes a story seed comes to me, and while it doesn’t always grow into a full-fledged story, it’s often expressed in the form of its own small poem. Like this.
Can We Make a Deal?
My alien mind
In this animal body
Which wins, in the end?
And since today is National Cat Day in the US, let’s make that animal a kitty.
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Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, climate change, haiku, hottest on record, Thoughts on October 6, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Sweat beads on hot skin
Insects buzz, records breaking
Strange October days.
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Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, from the archives, haiku, writing on May 17, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Another haiku from the archives. I was perhaps… six or seven? Old enough to know the value of friends, and rice.
I shall give thanks twice—
Sharing with an honored friend
My small bowl of rice.
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Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, garden, haiku, nature, Spring, Thoughts on April 30, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Beneath violets’
purple shade, the chipmunk darts
from winter to spring
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Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, haiku, poem, Thoughts on March 9, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Embrace the world’s gems
but know, of all that you see,
your light shines brightest.
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