Smell the pumpkin spice,
Leaves begin changing colors,
Children back in school.
Started with a stare,
Then the first conversation,
Sealed with a first kiss.
No rewind button,
Only a stuck play button,
On a one way tape.
A few killed, more hurt,
Another active shooter,
When does it all stop?
Coming to this world,
Knowing nothing about life
But their precious innocence.
Why's there so much hate?
Maybe they never learned love,
Or live peacefully.
As a kid, "I'm bored",
My teens, "My parents are great!",
Adulthood, "I'm alone."
A whole new world built,
With my imagination,
And with colorful LEGO blocks.
Vanilla ice cream,
Maybe for you something else,
In a waffle cone.
My little black puppy,
Full of life, vigor and love,
Brought smiles to all.
A favorite toy,
A blue dog, crocheted by Mom
Still sits on my chair.
The four letter words,
Help, Good, Like, Love, Play and Care,
All build-up children.
The four letter words,
Can't, Won't, Don't, Hate, Stop and Nope,
All ruin children.
Leave your comfort zone,
Status quo moves you no where,
Take the leap ahead.
Live all for today,
Remember your yesterdays,
Plan for tomorrow.
1 for me and 1 for you,
Here's 1, 2 for me and 2 for you too,
All shared equally.
I punish myself,
When things don't workout as planned,
I like life structured.
Look amongst your friends,
At your greatest time of need
Who'll stand by your side?
Living my best life,
Taking care of me,
Then everyone else second.
When telling truth hurts,
You are still obligated,
To keep your friend informed.
I sit and stare out
All alone on an island,
Wasting time away.
I don't give flowers,
Because they die, but you do
Red roses don't you?
I would like to fly,
Like the kite that is breezing
Through the fast paced wind.
I just toss and turn,
So tired that I can't sleep,
I am exhausted.
Coming down from clouds,
Little droplets of water
Like an angel's tears.
The smooth ocean blue,
Turned into the turbulent
Storms gray of autumn.
For the life she holds,
Nothing is being done to
Help keep her intact.
Each day is a gift,
Waiting for you to open,
Count all your blessings.
Yesterday’s treasures,
Add happy years to my life,
Clearing all sorrows.
Half hour early,
Before I’m a minute late,
I lost track of time.
Reach out and call friends,
When they come across your mind,
Don't regret your choice.
ABOUT ME, THE BLOGGER
Robert W Kovacs is a graduate with an Associate of Arts in Elementary Education from Broward (Community) College and graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Public Administration and a Master of Science in Parks and Recreation Administration from Florida International University.
He recently retired after just over 40 years of service and his final position was the Payroll Administrator. He continues to astonish himself as mathematics just didn’t add up to anything exciting in his grade point average throughout both high school and college years. As long as he can remember his writing has always been a part of defining him.
The blog shares the form, syllable count and format of a traditional haiku but with a twist of themes being on life's observations and lessons learned as opposed to traditional haiku being based on a nature theme.
The author uses quick whips of daily events, humor and "a-ha" moments to capture his haiku.
Like his YMEJOURNEY blog, his writing brings you into his world as it offers him a catharsis, meandering through experiences of significant episodes of reflections of this ride on earth, that we call life.
Robert prides himself being an even-keel, grounded, educated and professional who appreciates simple pleasures in a complicated world. He enjoys more things than he doesn’t and welcomes being introduced to new adventures. In his spare time he enjoys traveling on vacations to see more of this world, a diverse genre of movies and TV, reading mostly biographies and fiction, listening to almost all genres of 80s music, board games/Wii, beach/pool, bicycling, parks, cooking and eating, relaxing and thought provoking conversations with quality time with genuine people. Presently, his primary coordinates are approximately 26.0523° N, 80.1439° W, on Spaceship Earth.
WHY HAIKU?
2024 Daily Challenge - Haiku!
I belong to a writing club and our facilitator (friend) gave us a challenge to take on 01.01.24.
I was challenged by this friend to use one style of writing and post every day a learned lesson of life or a positive affirmation every day of 2024. The writing style must remain the same for the duration of the challenge. All free form writing that is anything but narratives (poems, limericks, sonnets, etc) less than 1000 words must post daily while narratives exceeding 2500 words once a week. Anything in between at least 3 times a week. You must keep all grammatical, syntax, rhyming and syllable counts but can vary on themes and content.
I wimped out on the second part of the challenge as I picked Haiku as my writing style as it was simple.
A haiku is a Japanese poem of three lines consisting of 5, 7 and 5 syllables respectively. Typically, covering images of nature but I’ll take my spin on it for this challenge.
I like to write about my life’s observations, lessons learned and self affirmations as I try to find my way through a complicated world.
Eventually, they’ll make it to my blog but for now here’s my attempt at a haiku a day for 365 days enjoy my Nuts, Bolts and Everything Else.
Enjoy!
AUTHOR'S DISCLOSURE
An artist's purpose is to evoke emotion and/or dialogue of the masterpiece created, without either, it's no longer art, let alone a masterpiece.
This blog represents the author's original writing and makes no apology for posts resulting in experiencing a sense of discomfort when reading his own personal reflections, thoughts, affirmations, observations and opinions of his journey in finding his way through a complicated world, of his so called life. The author requests readers remain mindful of dates when a post was written. Many of the earlier posts were academic assignments with guidelines to uphold the integrity and standards of a specific writing style. One or a combination of formatting, rhyming schemes, syllable counts, themes and specific guidelines which were up to self-interpretation and self-discovery.
This set the tone for the author's tone and unique writing style. He requests readers remain open-minded to viewpoints differing from their own. The author strongly believes "we can disagree and still remain friends" and welcomes respectful dialogue and questioning of his writings. However; hateful disagreement our outright dismissal or suggesting the author's writings are inherently wrong will not be tolerated and may not be conducive to constructive conversation.
PHOTOGRAPH CREDITS
Photographs for YMeJourney are generally used from the blogger's personal photograph collection, downloaded from Unsplash.com or maybe created via AI tools.
Blogger's personal photograph collection are photos taken from author or photographs provided to him by family and/or friends.
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The remainder of photographs or animated renderings are created by various AI apps and/or websites freely availalble on the internet with images created by them are free to use.
