In a past life of this blog, I wrote a haiku a day. This lasted for approximately 175 days. I’d tell you an exact number, but it seems at one point I forgot how to count. Past-me had struggles that present-me still deals with from time to time.

This post contains a few of the old haiku I wrote. I’m sharing these again partly because I need something to share and partly because I still enjoy the haiku. I’m retaining the original lack of capitalization and punctuation. The titles are prompts that were given to me by a friend or words that were generated at random.

Bread
knead it for a while.
let it take a nice long rest.
bake it then enjoy.

Again
finding enjoyment
in a thing i used to do.
maybe it will last.

Typical
the gentle rain drops
mock me while the pressure stabs.
i hate storm systems.

Mixer
standing there, waiting
unemployed most of the time
short work, good results

Wants
take a bath and nap.
bake something and take pictures.
read, write, draw, and think.

Tessellations
geometric tiles
arranged creatively
would make Esher proud.

Reflection
standing toe to toe
with what looks like my future
searching for what’s next.

Imagination
taking the day off.
pretend this is a haiku.
well, did you? good job