Category: Modern Life

Looking at how we’re evolving culturally, and how humanity engages with itself, for good and for ill.

An Early Morning Haiku

Carl Setzer

Yes, I am awake

And the birds sing with vigor

Dawn has not yet come

I’m amazed at the number of birds singing right now. Well, I think one of the loudest sounds is an insect, but I digress.  It’s quite boisterous. Oddly, as daylight comes their sounds will quiet. Perhaps just supplanted by human noise. Perhaps. 

May 24, 2918

Carl Setzer

​May 24, 2918

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p style=”font-family:"”>Beyond my imagining

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p style=”font-family:"”>So far forward 

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p style=”font-family:"”>Where my name 

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p style=”font-family:"”>Will have faded 

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p style=”font-family:"”>Into the realm of dreams 

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p style=”font-family:"”>This notion brought about 

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p style=”font-family:"”>By my misplaced fingers 

Despair Lies 

Carl Setzer

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p style=”font-family:"”>Despair’s a liar

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p style=”font-family:"”>There’s always a way forwards 

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p style=”font-family:"”>Hints of dawn’s colors 

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p style=”font-family:"”>I know how easy it is get lost in fear, my mind racing with destructive dreams. It’s corrosive to my joy. 

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