Haiku to a headache

I spent most of the day with a headache and did a lot of not much at all, other than laying on the bed, drifting in and out of sleep, and having weird dreams.

I did end the day with a 40-minute workout on the treadmill, though. so there’s that.

The haiku:

The head starts pounding
Seek a magic pill to fix
Modern life is great

A haiku to humidity

If you can’t beat it, wax poetic about it.

Humidity

Humidity sucks
Take your wet bulb and stuff it
Sweating and sweating

Well, that turned out a tad bitter! But I like it. Stupid humidity.

Current humidity as of this writing: 83%

Curiously unmotivated

Yesterday (Saturday, August 27, 2022, for the record) I was curiously unmotivated to post. I was up late and as I watched the time tick by, and it got closer to midnight, I thought, “I should at least post something, even just a haiku.” and yet I did not. I watched some videos, I had a nice shower, I did some reading. I slept.

I regret none of these things. Sometimes you just need to let everything slip away and get lost in your own head for a while. Which I did.

Now that that’s done, here’s a haiku and a cat:

Enjoying nothing
Is no easy thing to do
Brains don't shut down nice

Cat:

A haiku to coming up with names

I’m trying to come up with a new name for my revised newsletter, but nothing is coming to me. Why are names so hard? Why, I ask.

Why are names so hard?
I think but my brain says no
Time for some ice cream

Haiku to aliens silently observing us

scenic view of night sky
Photo by Hristo Fidanov on Pexels.com

Assuming there are a) aliens and b) they find us interesting enough to observe, of course. A haiku, in the form of a gentle plea:

Hello aliens
We're not as dumb as we seem
We need more time, please

This haiku is inspired by:

  • Putin thinking it was smart to invade Ukraine
  • People who cry about losing freedom because they have to wear a mask sometimes during a global pandemic
  • Global warming made a lot worse by guess who!
  • The general decline in rational thought, reason, compassion and what passes for common sense

Sometimes I think, “Wouldn’t it be neat to have a glimpse 100 years into the future, to see what wondrous technologies are yet to come?” but these days I’m more likely to pass on such an idea because I feel that future glimpse would reveal a world in which we (humans) are either gone or set back a thousand years or so in terms of technology due to our inability to stop fighting/killing each other and being so selfish and short-sighted about everything and anything. Sure, social media (nominated for Top Scourge of the 21st Century by me) amplifies all of this and perhaps makes it seem so much worse than it might really be, but I still find myself sighing over how often I see people being so casually thoughtless and uncaring. It feels like the glue that holds us together is wearing thin and everyone is moving toward looking out for #1, which will probably lead to our eventual doom.

Or maybe we will have flying cars and baby machines. Who can say? It’s easy to focus on the negative, so let me try one more haiku:

Hello aliens
We are a work in progress
Please do not blast us

There, a wee bit more positive, woo.

A haiku to The Rains

With another heavy rainfall warning in effect, it’s hard to believe it was mere weeks ago that the whole province was kindling waiting to explode. But here we are, complaining again as The Rains resume.

And now, a haiku:

Rain, rain and more rain
Contemplating ark building
Umbrellas for life

A haiku to heat

Yeah, this heat is hot
But it's not the pandemic
So I sweat and wave

Wave a fan in front of my face, that is. Or more precisely, aim an electric fan at my face.

Shoutout to America for providing the classic phrase “The heat was hot”, which I have adapted for use here.