“Gone”
You were a shadow,
lingering despite time, but
your true self shone through.
Steve D
You were a shadow,
lingering despite time, but
your true self shone through.
Steve D
Life’s distractions make
wonderful excuses for
neglecting our work.
Yes, this haiku is literal. I neglected to schedule my Sunday haiku before leaving town for the weekend. But I’ll be damned if I miss my first Sunday post in almost two years while there’s still a shade of daylight 🙂
Steve D
Real-life responsibilities hit me all at once in the last week and have really interfered with my writing. Now, I’m not going to lie, before the events of the past week, I was mostly getting in my own way of finishing the first draft of “Jaed and Aston”. But it feels different when external obligations are pulling you away from something you otherwise should be doing. Continue reading “Writing when Life Gets in the Way”
I think about George Carlin a lot. He was one of the first comedians I really started listening to when I was about eight… which is probably too young. But I think his cultural impact goes far beyond being a stand-up comedian. I really think he was a modern-day philosopher, especially as he got older and the subject matter of his comedy became more existential. I don’t know if he believed all of the ideas that he presented on stage, but he at least had the intellectual capacity to consider and explain them – convincingly. Continue reading “Literary Inspiration – What are Rights?”
Waves charge like armies,
Swarming over rocks – hold fast!
A cyclical siege.
Steve D
So, too, can one soul
Buffet those they encounter
To ripple an age
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Though a single wave
Pushes and pulls those around,
Altering currents
Steve D
Thus is one person;
A mote of dust to an age,
Lost in life’s current.
Steve D