Ownership gives strength
The problems of someone else
Will never get solved
A haiku which considers the importance of owning our problems, and empowering ourselves to find solutions.
Ownership is Empowerment
Month: August 2018
Reality and Possibility
Where is the boundary
Between reality
And possibility?
In Motion
Dreams of motion
Cars and vans, across deserts
Sunlight’s glaring strength
The forces of life drive hard
Each day waking
I’m the same bed
With different views
Outside this glass
Wheels sparkle in the day
Transitions happen
Do not give into fear
Do not give in to fear
Each step of acquiesce
Feeds the beast
Growing it
Face it down!
Demand it sit
Then lay down
Into the dirt
Acknowledging
Your power
Forward Motion
It’s always time
For forward motion
To step away from my past
Into my future
As the present fades
Into dust
The Incident In My Tea Mug
A fly in my cup
Bereft of life and motion
Tea in a new cup
Hologram*
Quite a clever haiku. The fact that the crafter is 8 fills me with joy.
2018 Walk Award
By Mason Cash, grade 3
Projected image
A cool hallucination
Seen but not solid
. . . . .
My name is Mason and I am 8 years old. I go to Beach Elementary on Lummi Island and this is my first published poem.
I came up with the poem, Hologram, by flipping through a dictionary and randomly picking a page. I decided the word I chose would be the title of my poem. I then thought of the characteristics of a hologram and used those to write my haiku.
. . . . .
*Copyright 2018 by Mason Cash. Broadside illustrated by Megan Carroll.
Seattle’s Smokestorm: A Haiku
This summer’s fires
I’ve grown weary of the bad air
Longing for autumn
It’s been a challenging summer for us Seattleites. Especially though with any kind of respiratory issues. Really looking forward to the relief autumn is promising.
A Photo Mediation
As one stares upwards
Admiring ornate art
Expressions in stone
Another image found on Bing (it’s from this website. Really interesting work).
I’ve long admire such stonework. The craftsmanship is exquisite, but I’m even more impressed by the mind the conceived it.
Beauty Within Destruction
In the smoke
I see beauty within
Destruction
The Seattle area has been suffering with unhealthy accounts of smoke. First from California, then from British Columbia.
At dawn and dusk the sun has been this bold orange/red. Stunningly beautiful, juxtaposed against the monumental destruction weight by those fires.
