Power’s Names

The uncertain hand/
Translates the words for power/
On a New York wall/
#haiku

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Fire Island Day 30

1. Sitting on the shore/
Molding sand into castles/
Hope flowing like waves/
#haiku

2. Nonetheless knowing/
Our human activities/
Are temporary/
#haiku

3. What counts is action/
Never the final outcome/
Life is made doing/
#haiku

4. In simple actions/
Existence is completed/
One soul at a time/
#haiku

5. Create your person/
In behavior &actions/
Thoughtful & thoughtless/
#haiku

6. Performing actions/
Without concern for reward/
Should keep your soul full/
#haiku

7. Enjoy your today:/
Create your best performance/
You are only now/
#haiku

8. We exist right now/
Not in some perfect future/
Enjoy this moment/
#haiku

9. Enjoy this instant/
It’s the minute particle/
Which composes life/
#haiku

Fire Island Day Twenty~Nine

20. Choppy waves below/
Lap insistently under/
Low grey clouds above/
#haiku

21. Cold grey sunrise starts/
Another moist paradise/
For our enjoyment/
#haiku

22. Not appropriate/
For vacation photographs/
But still important/
#haiku

23. Vacation includes/
Cold that dare not speak its name/
Which I must love too/
#haiku

24. Life is not constant/
Comfort or pleasure for us*/
Savor discomfort/
#haiku *Man

25. Discomfort gives us/
Awareness of simple life/
Which is all we have/
#haiku

26. Constant comfort numbs/
Living beings into “selfs:”/
Individuals/
#haiku

27. Individuals:/
People disconnected from/
The flow of living/
#haiku

28. Constant convenience:/
Frictionless living’s unreal*/
Burden still exists/
#haiku *unfair

29. In this universe/
Everything must be done/
By someone someplace/
#haiku

30. The fan that cools you/
Made in a hot factory/
By someone who’s hot/
#haiku

31. Convenience is made/
Available to people/
By someone’s labor/
#haiku

32. Remember to show/
Simplicity’s Gratitude/
When life is easy/
#haiku

33. Enjoy life’s friction/
It is the only measure/
Of reality/
#haiku

34. Cold fingers can hold/
More human reality/
Because of their will/
#haiku

35. Grab life with fingers/
Cold and raw with submission/
To human kindness/
#haiku

Fire Island Day 24

7. This world is perfect/
Every possible way/
Accept joy & pain/
#haiku

8. Lament attachment/
It is Ego’s foundation/
Where desire is formed/
#haiku

9. Easy to love life/
While I am on vacation/
I love my work, too/
#haiku

10. Try to find meaning/
In the pointless minutiae/
That makes up our lives/
#haiku

11a. Pointless minutiae:/
Sub-Atomic-Particles:/
Human Existence/
#haiku

11b. Pointless minutiae:/
Sub-Atomic-Particles/
Of our Existence/
#haiku

12. Human Existence/
Justifies its own meaning/
In each of our hearts/
#haiku

13a. We know we matter/
Despite what the world tells us/
Each* life is precious/
#haiku *my

13b. We know we matter/
Contradicting capital/
Each* life is precious/
#haiku *my

A Trick of Perception

34. Blithely we accept/
Our unfair advantages/
‘Cause others have more/
#haiku

35. We all need the plans/
Though we resent the planners/
Unwilling to change/
#haiku

36. Organization:/
The necessary evil/
That civilizes/
#haiku

37. Habit and culture/
Organizes most people/
Without their knowing/
#haiku

38. Refusing the plans/
Cultural standards provide/
Means courting stigma/
#haiku

33. “Tawdry” perfect word:/
Contrasting a “checkered past”/
With enlightened “now”/
#haiku

Haiku Journal Fire Island Day Seventeen

18. I woke late and tired/
Distracted I found routines/
Of soul distraction/
#haiku

19. I avoided myself/
As I stumbled back to “life”/
I didn’t think much/
#haiku

20. Facebook & Twitter/
NPR & other tasks/
Stole meditation/
#haiku

21. Modern rituals/
Of social information/
Kill contemplation/
#haiku

22. Time spent with myself/
Challenges my “public self”/
Here is where doubt lies/
#haiku

23a. Thinking of myself/
As a soul that I control/
Shows me how I slack/
#haiku

23b. Exposing myself/
Examining my routines/
Of selfish comfort/
#haiku

25. I use rituals/
Regardless of how noble/
To limit myself/
#haiku

26. I’m alive and free/
Capable of being great/
But that’s not easy/
#haiku

27. To be truly free/
I must sacrifice comfort/
Of the familiar/
#haiku

28. The freedom I “want:”/
Described by society/
Is base privilege/
#haiku

29. The freedom I “need:”/
Spiritual transcendence/
Will cost me comfort/
#haiku

30. Participation:/
It is easy to enjoy/
Cruel advantages/
#haiku

31. Eschewing this place/
Of petty petty domination/
Challenges comfort/
#haiku

32. I worked hard within/
This unfair human system/
To enjoy my place/
#haiku

33. “Succeeding” suggests/
You must accept this system/
(That you know’s unfair)/
#haiku

34. I’m doing better/
Because I’m lucky enough/
To exist right here/
#haiku

35. Less fortunate/
Aren’t any less deserving/
Just more unlucky/
#haiku

36. I want to transcend/
This venal system of mine/
& be happier/
#haiku

37. The “revolution”/
I need to happen’s within/
Not political/
#haiku

38. I’d be happier/
If I corrected myself/
& escaped habit/
#haiku

39. I am the system/
I despise so thoroughly/
(Though it comforts me)/
#haiku

40. I’ll work to improve/
Personal behaviors &/
Metaphysically/
#haiku

Fire Island Day Fifteen

28. Look within yourself/
For that which you seek without/
We are all equal/
#haiku

29. Perfection resides/
Not in the warm beach sunrise/
But the eyes that see/
#haiku

7/15/12

30. Heaven is living/
Within our realities/
Not others’ ideas/
#haiku

31. World so abundant/
We should all be surfeited/
Though then we’d lose wealth/
#haiku

32. Our humility/
Could make us so prosperous/
In a newer way/
#haiku

Fire Island Haiku Journal Day Fourteen

4. All of us alive/
Get our way most of the time/
So be more grateful/
#haiku

5. Living simply proves/
Survival’s a miracle/
show some gratitude/
#haiku

6. From the Boson-Higgs/
To the clean water we drink/
Miracles abound/
#haiku

7. Tribulations give/
The existence we enjoy/
Some necessities/
#haiku

8a. Even enemies/
Offer something important/
In this crazy life/
#haiku

8b. Diseases provide/
Something important to life/
That we can’t perceive/
#haiku

9. Necessities are/
Food, company & shelter/
Be grateful for them/
#haiku

10. We do not need more/
Our species thrives with good* work/
Not with luxuries/
#haiku *hard

11. Life’s simple pleasures:/
Hearth, Food, friends, & time to think/
Are true luxuries/
#haiku

12. Luxuries are not/
Things you can buy and save up/
They are our freedoms/
#haiku

13. Freedom ain’t pretty:/
With it we can make mistakes/
& Hurt our neighbors/
#haiku

14. Free to be tacky/
Corny-self-righteous-jerks is/
Also important/
#haiku

15. We’re free to believe/
The most absurd of theories/
Of our creation/
#haiku

16. Freedom demands our/
Tolerance and acceptance/
Of people we don’t like/
#haiku

17. “G_d’s” snake handlers/
Have the right to spit venom/
No matter my thoughts/
#haiku

18. Freedom makes demands/
That seem so cockamamie/
But we must relent/
#haiku

19. Nothing’s guaranteed/
No sacred life is promised/
We are but mortals/
#haiku

20. So I’ll try to help/
And accept the eccentric/
To let freedom live/
#haiku

A. We allow the rich/
To “get away with murder”/
Because fame matters/
#haiku

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[it took me a while to get to the point, stick with them, these poems get better]

4. All of us alive/
Get our way most of the time/
So be more grateful/
#haiku

5. Living simply proves/
Survival’s a miracle/
show some gratitude/
#haiku

6. From the Boson-Higgs/
To the clean water we drink/
Miracles abound/
#haiku

7. Tribulations give/
The existence we enjoy/
Some necessities/
#haiku

8a. Even enemies/
Offer something important/
In this crazy life/
#haiku

8b. Diseases provide/
Something important to life/
That we can’t perceive/
#haiku

9. Necessities are/
Food, company & shelter/
Be grateful for them/
#haiku

10. We do not need more/
Our species thrives with good* work/
Not with luxuries/
#haiku *hard

11. Life’s simple pleasures:/
Hearth, Food, friends, & time to think/
Are true luxuries/
#haiku

12. Luxuries are not/
Things you can buy and save up/
They are our freedoms/

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Fire Island Day Eight

27. Good society/
Makes vacation perfection/
Not merely the beach/
#haiku

28. It’s people sharing/
Physical amenities/
That makes vacation/
#haiku

29. Others’ enjoyment/
Gives the pleasures we enjoy/
The validation/
#haiku

30. A desert island/
Staffed with happy servants can’t/
Match community/
#haiku

31. Human paradise/
Is where we enjoy enough/
& others do too/
#haiku

32. Sharing vacation/
With other people improves/
Our experience/
#haiku

33. Vacation alone:/
Fantasy independence/
(Isolated souls)/
#haiku

34. Humans are social/
We need the community/
Other people bring/
#haiku

35. I want ev’ryone/
To enjoy what I enjoy/
Because I love life/
#haiku

36. If there ain’t enough/
I should reduce my demands/
That others get more/
#haiku

37. G_d will provision/
Enough for ev’rybody/
Is what true faith means/
#haiku

38. Scarcity is fear/
Created by rich people/
That desire too much/
#haiku

39. Enjoy and share things/
Believing life will provide/
All of your true needs/
#haiku

Fire Island 3 (day 6?)

7. Life is very good/
I will accept “laziness”/
As part of process/
#haiku

8. “Non-Linnear-Work”/
Relaxing, thinking, dreaming/
Is important, too/
#haiku

9. It’s time to recharge/
Refill my soul with wonder/
Top-off happiness/
#haiku

10. Finding happiness/
Is a multimodal act/
Balance is a key*/
#haiku *primal

11. Acceptance is faith/
Unlocking the perfection/
That swirls all around/
#haiku