Life Storm

Perfect storm of life Allergies and Holy Week Daylight Savings Time Allergy season is upon us, and it couldn’t come at a worse time. During allergy season mental distractions become so acute my body tends to respond to them by either barking out in anger or running into a quite room to rock back and…

A Monday Haiku

It’s been a long weekend and finding time to write is a bit touchy. So, here’s my haiku for MLK day. It highlights my own weariness, and also the reason why I wake up in the morning each and every day. I am a servant, it’s just who I am. A little bit beat I…

A Holiday Haiku

The holidays come Parties, full schedules, travel Is it over yet? I don’t make it much of a secret that the “Holiday Season” is not my favorite time of the year. The sardonic way Christians go about “keeping Christ in Christmas” is part of my reasoning for this. If I have one more Christian tell…

Sabbath Haiku

A bit achy, and a tad bit anti-social, after a long day Saturday and wonderful worship Sunday morning. I slept the afternoon away and wrote the Haiku to commemorate the occasion. Long day yesterday. Slept the afternoon away. It was glorious. This is a photo taken of myself, my “shutter buddy” 1, and his daughter…

A tired haiku

It’s been a long work-week, so I end it with a haiku to mark the occasion. Everything broken Noises getting on my nerves Give me quiet. Sleep.

Allergies – A Haiku

It’s high-allergy season. Energy is hard to come by and so I write this haiku as a reflection of my current mind-set. I’m kind of sleepy Allergies aren’t any fun My eyes want to close