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Soaking up the Rain

What Brings You Joy?

All the Owls

Almost Winter

Special Saturday Feelings Edition

Herons & Boys

Moss

Strange Beauty

From the Archives: Rest

Conversing with Mom

Small Haiku Stories

What's All This Chatter About Videos?

Poetry is in the Air

The Use Case for Creativity

Wondering in the Dark

What the Duck?

Of Ducks and Awkward Gratitude

Grand Theft Poetry

Almost Cliche

Happy Bring My Friends to Work Day

Belonging

The Beauty of a Finite Life

Spending Time in the Hole

Shared Mechanics of Humor, Horror & Haiku

The Problem of Time

When the Geese Take Flight

Around Home at Night

Halloween Horror Haiku Extravaganza

The Beauty in the Ugly, Wabi Sabi, and The Twilight Zone Haiku

A Selection of Weird Poems

Putting the Right Words in the Right Spaces

The First Pancake Principle

The Real Dangers of Imaginary Creatures

Friday Bonus: Two Revised Poems and One About Tom Petty

Getting Better While Wasting Time

Playing Games with Punctuation

Stories Lurking in the Shadows

The Joy of Quitting

Poetry is Happening Outside

The Heartbreak Haiku Club

Where is the Magic?

The Real Work of Being an Artist

Using My Attention Machine to Shrink My Focus

In the Pocket

Make Your Life a Work of Art

Stories Hidden in Fingers of Grass

Resting and Looking Back

Haiku as Emotional Discovery

The Unfathomable Logic of Dreams

Never Watch Movies with a Time Traveler

That Ain't No Matter

The Inside of My Brain

Let's Make Some Lists

Hope is Searching for You

This is Your Life

Finding Your Way

You're never fully dressed without a smile

Writing about the Interstitial

What If We're Hardwired for Gossip?

Fat Dad Dancing

Showing Your Art Love

Owl Prayers

High Lonesome Haiku

Living in the Real World

Things I've Found on the Ground

The fall of summer

Today We Fly

Flipping Through Poems Like the Pages of a Magazine

We're All Heading the Same Direction

Procrastination's Dark Muscled Tentacles

Drowning in Darkness?

What Kind of Life Do You Want to Live?

The Changing Seasons of Haiku

Building a Gentler Life

Invite your friends to read Weirdo Poetry

Episode 023: The Sparkling Azure Ocean

The Messenger

Beauty Doesn't Require You to Understand

Revisit: What Gives You Hope?

Nothing to Nothing

Abstract Koi, Concrete Happiness, and Haiku as Travel Literature

Summer's Benediction

Notes, Notebooks, and Notetakers

Summer Rendezvous

Overcoming Inertia

Dancing in the Sun

The Lonely Night City

Revisit: We Sing the Sad Songs All the Way Through

Some used to believe…

Have you even lived?

Nature's Hymns

The Last Twenty Percent

The Poetry of Comfort

Ugh, Life

Color Coded

Unpaid Intern

Cursive Cigarettes

Things to Try When Writing Haiku

The Early Bird Drops the Worm

Eternity in Three Acts

Creating Tension

A Summer Solstice Message

Not What We Expected

New Summer Schedule

Father's Day Fairness

Intergalactic Summer S'mores

Are You Working Hard or Hardly Working?

Originality is Easy

Looking at the Night Sky with the Eyes of a Child

Do We Find Meaning or Do We Make Meaning?

No Such Thing as a Bad Poem

Finding Haiku in Emerson

Nature's Indifference

A Totally Inadequate Guide to Adulting

Wonder and Healing

Looking Back

Keys and Locks

Our Responsibility to Ideas

That Escalated Quickly

More Haiku Silliness

Roadtripping

Are You Making the Right Comparisons?

Laughing in Haiku

Seeing My Memories One Haiku at a Time

Looking Out the Window

Experimental Sunday

What Gives You Hope?

Finding Places to Just Be

What Do We Owe to the Dead?

Creation Myths and Tanka

Find Your Oasis

Searching for Utopian Moments

Living a Different Life

Waking Up!

Using Haiku to Notice Deeper

Community and Intergalactic Worker Solidarity

Don't Become a Decoy

What is Your Attention Worth?

Why Grown-Ups Need Picture Books Too

Following the Process

Doing Your Own Thing

Punk Rock Earnestness

The Story of a Moment

Owls are good luck, right?

What's in the Night Sky?

What Can Words Do?

Spring is a Time for Half-Formed Ideas

Longing for Cool Summer Grass

Breaking Haiku

Strange Connections

Movement

The Best Laid Plans

Something Lurking Unerground

Backyard Treasures

Experimentation and Fermentation

I Want to Be Gentle

What is Sacred to You?

A Sort Of Self-Portrait

Poetry is for Ugly People

Where We're Going, We Don't Need Roads

No cherry blossoms for us

Paper Collage Madness

What Are You Searching For?

When Time Stops Flowing

Seahorses and Blades of Grass

Love is Like Sunscreen

Take a Fantastical Escape

The Power of Small Vicarious Journeys

My Most Un-Haiku Opinion

A Short Intro Video and Some Poetry Reading

On Feeling Broken

The Anatomy of a Bad Idea

Baseball Weather

Don't Trouble Trouble

Do Kids Still Play This Game?

Checking on the Other Side

Sounds of Spring

The Best Place to Watch the Rain

I Can't Get Comfortable

Insomnia

Watching the World End

Working Like a Dog?

Letting My Imagination Take a Walk

Enjoying what others avoid

Going to Bed After Sunrise

On Being Lost

What is a Miracle?

Adrift

Moving Forward

On Weariness

The Songs of the Stars

We Still Have the Stars

Unstable Weather

Like a Palm Tree

Dog Walkers

Spring Baseball

What's Going On Up There?

My Old Friend in the Sky

Rocky Mountain High

Here Comes the Rain Again

Moon River

We Spotted the Ocean

Is this progress?

Our last snow of the season?

Motivations

Something's out there

Is it spring yet?

What does it mean to experience something?

Lost in the view

Dangerously Close

Discovering who we are

All you can do is all you can do

Stealing like a poet

Robots and S'mores

A different kind of resume

Trying silly things

Dandelion Wishes

Channeling the ocean's power

My basketball beating heart

Getting a new perspective

Death and omens

Valentine's Day pirate love letter haiku extravaganza

Enjoy the view

The games we play

Entropy interrupted

Secret communications

Getting meta about creativity

Lost in the desert

My new (old) philosophy

Living in a time where time is changing

Exploited lunar labor

Nostalgia

Ancient secrets

Scenes from a hospital waiting room

Nature's destructive power

Planet gazing

Wild Divinity is here!

Are you willing to dream big?

I just wrote by 3,000th haiku!

How do you see the world?

What does it mean to listen?

The year of the rabbit is here

A sentimental favorite

Falling into the sky

What is one of your favorite live performances?

Have you ever heard this phrase?

Do you dance?

What's a lesson you keep having to learn?

What do you take too many pictures of?

What is winter like where you live?

Is there a better way to spend a day?

Does poetry make the world a better place?

Rules and polite society

Making the best of a looming disaster

What are you passionate about?

Can poetry be sci-fi?

Dreaming with my eyes open

What are we made of?

The secret to beating the machines is…

Surprises and experiments

The one place you might still find magic

Late night self care

What does a promise mean to you?

Return of the daily haiku!