#WritersCollective

UberZeitgeist

17 hours ago

Mondays are best for
Remembering the weekend
And cursing the week

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #Community #Monday #Monday #Weekend #Week #Work #Life

December 4, 2023

Color image of an office desk covered with stacks of documents. Center of the image is a brown wood executive desk with its surface stacked with documents. To the right in the image is a wall space covered with certificates, awards, and accomplishment plaques, in the center background is a window with blinds open showing an elevated cityscape and a wood bookshelf filled with files.

UberZeitgeist

2 days ago

Getting that tree home
Strapped to the roof and ready
Hoping for smooth roads.

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #Community #Christmas #Tree #ChristmasTree #Holidays #Trimming #TreeTrimming #Decorating #Decorations #Family #Life

December 3, 2023

Color image of a Little Tikes car with a Christmas tree tied to the roof. Child's car has a red body, eyes looking forward above the front, and a yellow arched window area on which the tree has been tied. It is sitting on a green field of grass.

UberZeitgeist

3 days ago

Santos mementos:
Momentous incompetence
Non compos mentis

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #Community #Santos #RepresentativeSantos #Expelled #Congress #HouseOfRepresentatives #TheEnd #Incompetence #NonComposMentis #Santos

December 2, 2023

UberZeitgeist

4 days ago

On the homestretch now
Two weeks away from one year
Fourteen more haikus

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #Community #December #TheEnd

December 1, 2023

Color image of marathon competitors crossing the All America Bridge in Akron, Ohio, USA. The image shows thousands of runners on a curving high-level, multispan bridge over the Cuyahoga River valley, colorfully dressed and wearing running bibs.

UberZeitgeist

5 days ago

Usher of "detente"
His shuttle diplomacy
Opened doors long closed

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #Community #Kissinger #DudeIsDead #ShuttleDiplomacy #Detente #Controversy #China #USSR #CCCP #SovietEra #ColdWar #VietNam #Nixon #Ford #Doomsday #DrStrangelove

November 30, 2023

UberZeitgeist

6 days ago

"Taking Wednesday"
Regretting Tuesday's largesse
Cancel subscriptions

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #Wednesday #TakingWednesday #Fund #Community

November 29, 2023

UberZeitgeist

1 week ago

It's Giving Tuesday
Institutionalizing
The art of the ask

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #Tuesday #GivingTuesday #Help #Donate #Fund #Community #Alms #Giving #Donate #Donation #Volunteer

November 28, 2023

Black and white image of Monopoly's Milburn Pennybags, also known as Rich Uncle Pennybags. In the image he is dressed in a top hat and tails, jumping with his hooked cane in his left hand.

Color image of Monopoly's Milburn Pennybags, also known as Rich Uncle Pennybags. In the image he is dressed in a top hat and tails, standing with his pockets turned out empty, palms turned forward, showing he has no funds.

UberZeitgeist

1 week ago

Today is a gift
Open it and embrace it
Like no tomorrow

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #Today #Tomorrow #Now #Live #Gift #LiveEveryDay #CarpeDiem @SeizeTheDay #Life

November 27, 2023

Image of the inside of a birthday card from grandchildren to their grandmother. The pages are pink, and drawn over by many images by the children.

UberZeitgeist

1 week ago

Thanksgiving Weekend
Sunday end-day football feast
Week of leftovers

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #Thanks #Thanksgiving #Family #Friends #Gratitude #Holiday #Leftovers #Football #AmericanFootball

November 26, 2023

UberZeitgeist

1 week ago

Those Mom and Pop shops
Neighbors' local businesses
Patronize today

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #Thanks #Thanksgiving #Family #Friends #Gratitude #Holiday #ShopLocalSaturday #Neighbors #ShopLocal #SmallBusinessSaturday

November 25, 2023

Color image of the folks at Pots & Pans Pie Co., Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

Color image of the folks at the Peanut Shoppe of Akron, Ohio, USA.

Color image of the folks at Sweet Mary's Bakery, Akron, Ohio, USA.

UberZeitgeist

2 weeks ago

When Black Friday comes
It's Shop-Til-You-Drop mantra
Sets the shops humming

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #Thanks #Thanksgiving #Family #Friends #Gratitude #Travel #Holiday #BlackFriday

November 24, 2023

Color image of a family standing in front of a holiday store display window on Thanksgiving in Northeast Ohio. The photo shows a family of two parents and three children in cold-weather clothing and jackets, admiring a downtown store window recreation in the former O'Neil's Department Store.

UberZeitgeist

2 weeks ago

Day of Thanksgiving
Take time to count your blessings
Not your calories

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #Thanks #Thanksgiving #Family #Friends #Gratitude #Travel #Holiday

November 23, 2023

Color image of a runner's bib for the 32nd Annual Homerun for the Homeless Thanksgiving Day 4-mile run in Akron, Ohio, USA. Image shows a graphic turkey design on the left, the runner's number, 7815, on the right in red, and the name of the run, HOME RUN FOR THE HOMELESS in brown block letters.

UberZeitgeist

2 weeks ago

Thanksgiving Day Eve
Folks traveling near and far
Food and gratitude

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #Thanks #Thanksgiving #Family #Friends #Gratitude #Travel #Holiday

November 22, 2023

Black and white image showing members of the Akron, Ohio, USA Elks Lodge posing in and around a car during their thanksgiving observance in 1946. At the top of the image is a row of city trees on a lawn, centered in the photo is a group of men and women dressed in Elks Lodge garb, including Fez caps, some seated in a convertible automobile, others standing alongside the car.

UberZeitgeist

2 weeks ago

Sweet and savory
Some say opposites attract
That's just table talk

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #Salt #Pepper #Sugar #Diner #Food #Foodies #Restaurant #Recipe

November 21, 2023

Color image of salt and pepper shakers and a sugar packet bowl on a table in a diner in Northeast Ohio. Image has white ceramic salt and pepper shakers at the top of the frame, their holes in S and P shapes, center of the image is a white ceramic bowl filled with sugar and sugar substitute packets, all sitting on a black table.

UberZeitgeist

2 weeks ago

"Our Better Angels"
Said often - understood less
But Shakespeare's came first

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #Lincoln #GettysburgAddress #Shakespeare #Angels #BetterAngels #WorserSpirits #LincolnFirstInaugural #Sonnet144 #Sonnets #Bard #Othello #TheBetterAngelsOfOurNature

November 20, 2023

Portraits of William Shakespeare and Abraham Lincoln side by side, both turning to the right with pensive, knowing eyes.

UberZeitgeist

2 weeks ago

Angles surround us
We think we've covered them all
Until more appear

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #Angles #Area #Triangle #Situations #Everywhere #Anywhere #Covered #Diabolical

November 19, 2023

Black and white image of a series of intersecting angles between a ceiling, wall, railing, staircase and balcony in the entry to a church in Northeast Ohio, USA. Shadows from the panels make even more angles. On the left the shadowed portion of an overhang casts and angled shadow on a gray wall. The stairway banister casts a shadow on the same wall lower in the frame. In the center of the image a white wall shows, at the top, the intersecting of another wall, plastered cove, and the ceiling, all coming together in more angles.

UberZeitgeist

2 weeks ago

Weekends are puzzles
For ending or starting things
Or just relaxing

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #Weekend #Saturday #Sunday #Loaf #Relax #Nothing

November 18, 2023

Color image of a toddler asleep on a chair. Brown armchair near a window, toddler in colorful pajamas is sleeping on his back, legs dangling, white socks with gray toes, shoes on the floor below him.

UberZeitgeist

3 weeks ago

The Season of Thanks
Arrives in America
Get out those purses

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #Holidays #Thanksgiving #Christmas #Xmas #BlackFriday #CyberMonday #BuyBuyBuy #Love #Thanks

November 17, 2023

UberZeitgeist

3 weeks ago

It seems lighter fare
Better fits Mastodoners
Than current events

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #Fare #Light #Easy #EasyListening #SmoothJazz #SimpleThoughts #LightFare

November 16, 2023

Color image of a field of sunny sunflowers in a Northeast Ohio, USA farm field.

UberZeitgeist

3 weeks ago

Juxtaposition
Israel - Palestine - War
All Abraham's sons

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #Israel #Palestine #War #Abraham #Gaza #WestBank #Peace
November 15, 2023

Color image, "Fresco of the Philistine captivity of the ark, in the Dura-Europos synagogue" located in modern-day Syria.

UberZeitgeist

3 weeks ago

Mom's recipe box
Mixing homespun cookies
With wartime orders

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #WWII #Wartime #LifeInWartime #Mom #Recipe #RecipeCard #RecipeBox #ButterScotchCookies
November 14, 2023

Color image of the back of a recipe card for "Butter Scotch Cookies", showing more of the recipe in longhand, plus ordering information from the requisition of batteries from a vendor by the US Army, May 3, 1943.

UberZeitgeist

3 weeks ago

One may find Joy in
A donation for candles
Simply feed the box

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #Joy #Candles #Advent #Donation #Holidays #Christmas
November 13, 2023

Color image of a decorated donation box at an inner-city church in Northeast Ohio, USA, to fund advent candles. The box is a festive light green, with depictions of trees and holly, with the letters JOY spelled out diagonally on the top, the O depicted by a poinsettia bloom with read and green leaves.

UberZeitgeist

3 weeks ago

A dozen days in
November sports winter's shades
Fade to black and white

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #November #Winter #Fall #Trees #Leaves #BlackAndWhite
November 12, 2023

Black and white image of fall fading into winter, 10th floor view of a Northeast Ohio cityscape.

UberZeitgeist

3 weeks ago

Thank the Veterans
Few doing much for many
All shapes and sizes

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #VeteransDay #ArmisticeDay #Remember #WWII #VietNam #Army #Navy #RemembranceDay #JourduSouvenir #JourdelArmistice
November 11, 2023

UberZeitgeist

4 weeks ago

Penultimate day
Before the Eleventh Day
Ended The Great War

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #VeteransDay #ArmisticeDay #Remember #WWI #TheGreatWar #RemembranceDay #JourduSouvenir #JourdelArmistice
November 10, 2023

New York Times headline page, November 11, 1918

Black and white image of downtown Akron, Ohio, November 11, 1918, wiht parades and citizens celebrating the end of hostilities and WWI with the signing of the Armistice.

UberZeitgeist

4 weeks ago

Night of Broken Glass
Eighty-five years in the past
Kristallnacht persists

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #Kristallnacht #BrokenGlass #Novemberpogrome #WWII

November 9, 2023

Black and white image of a smashed storefront of a Jewish business as a result of the November 9-10, 1938 Novemberprogrome known commonly as Kristallnacht - https://www.history.com/topics/holocaust/kristallnacht

UberZeitgeist

4 weeks ago

Annual crow show
Caw-caw-caw of filled branches
Murder on the wing

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #Crow #Crows #MurderOfCrows #OldFolkTales #Birds #Winter #Seasons

November 8, 2023

Black and white image of crows massing on a tree in autumn in Northeast Ohio. Image shows a tree mostly bare of leaves, with crows perched on nearly every available branch. It is early morning before sunrise, and the sky is dark, and the crows darker.

UberZeitgeist

1 month ago

Its Election Day
More voting season than date
Polls crunching totals

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #Polls #Polling #Pols #Politics #Vote #Voting #Election #ElectionDay #Voted #OhioVoted

November 7, 2023

Color image of an "Ohio Voted" sticker, given to Ohio voters at poll locations as they finish their ballots and have them counted. Image is the shape of Ohio in red, outlined by a blue circle, with "Ohio" in blue but for the red "I", and with "VOTED" in red, so it reads both "OHIO VOTED" and "I VOTED OHIO"

UberZeitgeist

1 month ago

X-mark on a pew
Pandemic ghost reminder
It will never leave

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #Pandemic #Endemic #Politics #Prayer #Pensive

November 6, 2023

Color image of a 'ghost' X-mark on a church pew, left by tape put in place to limit seating during the height of the pandemic. Image shows an X left on the pew seat, which is oak, where the tape making the x was removed, pulling off some of the painted, varnished finish from the pew.

UberZeitgeist

1 month ago

Bold cold November
You arrive with such bluster
Defrocking the trees

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #November #Fall #Autumn #Trees #Leaves #Season

November 5, 2023

Color image of a bared tree in the autumn, in a former amusement part in Northeast Ohio, USA, growing up through an old Ferris Wheel.

UberZeitgeist

1 month ago

We may ask whether
Pursuer or the pursued
Has the better game

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #Pursuit #Pursuer #Pursued #Result #Game

November 4, 2023

Color image of a fall football game in Northeast Ohio at a college stadium.

UberZeitgeist

1 month ago

Tree mirroring thoughts
Feeling reflective effects
The tide erases

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #Tide #Tidal #Trees #Mirror #Reflection #LiveOak #Ocean #Atlantic #Coastal #SeaIsland

November 3, 2023

Black and white image of a live oak tree reflecting on the tidal waters of a tidal inlet in Coastal Carolina on the Atlantic seaboard.

UberZeitgeist

1 month ago

All Souls get today
After Saints got yesterday
Who gets tomorrow?

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #AllSoulsDay #Saints #Souls #Cemetery

November 2, 2023

Color image of cemetery in Rome, Georgia. The cemetery is located on a number of hills, and the highest is crowned with a crypt and an angel.

UberZeitgeist

1 month ago

All Saints get a day
But it's also All Souls Eve
Happy Souloeen

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #AllSaintsDay #Saints #Souls

November 1, 2023

UberZeitgeist

1 month ago

It's All-Hallows Eve
Oft forgot in treats and tricks
Is tomorrow's Feast

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #Halloween #Ocean #Pumpkin #Sea #Beach #Coastal #Carolina #SeaIsland

October 31, 2023

Color image of carved pumpkin Halloween Jack-O-Lanterns.

UberZeitgeist

1 month ago

Moon-Jupiter chase
Same scene running all night long
Victorious orb

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #Ocean #Sea #Beach #Coastal #Carolina #SeaIsland #Jupiter #Moon

October 30, 2023

Color image of the moon rising over the Atlantic Ocean in Coastal Carolina, following Jupiter's own rise. The other lights are the LED lights on shrimp boats out for the night's haul

UberZeitgeist

1 month ago

Bubble life may work
One just needs enough tension
To keep the roof on

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #Ocean #Sea #Beach #Coastal #Carolina #SeaIsland #Bubble #Life #BubbleLife

October 29, 2023

Color video of a bubble dancing on a dock in Coastal Carolina along a sea island salt marsh.

UberZeitgeist

1 month ago

Historical Tour
Sea Island's yearly frolic
What once was what was

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #Ocean #Sea #Beach #History #Past #Coastal #Carolina #SeaIsland

October 28, 2023

Color image of participants in an annual house tour in Coastal Carolina, USA, queued up to visit. Image shows a graceful antebellum home's two welcoming porches and typical mid-19th century plantation home architecture. The sky is a cloudless blue, and a graceful set of brick stairs cascade down from the lower of the two stacked verandas.

UberZeitgeist

1 month ago

Never the same twice
Each wave individual
Then gone forever

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #Ocean #Sea #Beach #Sand #Surf #Tides #Waves

October 27, 2023

Color image of the sun setting amid a crash of waves in Coastal Carolina, USA. The clouds in grays, oranges, yellow, reds and blues make a curving arch matching the curve of the beach, reflected in the waves churning the sandy beach at sunset.

UberZeitgeist

1 month ago

Lather rinse repeat
The ocean's motion potion
Cleaner is leaner

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #Ocean #Sea #Beach #Sand #Surf #Tides #Waves

October 26, 2023

Color image of sunrise as a wave crashes on a placid beach in Coastal Carolina.

UberZeitgeist

1 month ago

Old Souls and Soulmates
Sometimes arrive together
Same place - Same time - Beach

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #Love #Family #Heart #Soul #Home #Friends #Companions #Life #Beach #Soulmates

October 25, 2023

Color image of two shells on a South Carolina beach at sunrise.

UberZeitgeist

1 month ago

Search for a Speaker
Look under every rock
Bound to find one there

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #USA #House #HouseOfRepresentatives #Congress #SpeakerOfTheHouse #Speaker #Politics #News

October 23, 2023

Black and white image of a snake curled up under a rock.

UberZeitgeist

1 month ago

A single leaf falls
Forest perhaps diminished
But its floor enriched

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #Fall #Autumn #Leaf #Leaves #Forest #Tree #Nature

October 22, 2023

Watercolor image of a fanciful tree in autumn, its trunk rising to become the body of a guitar. The trunk is black, the branches black and curving into a round canopy of orange and yellow leaves. A small dog stands at its base looking up, a small cat inside the guitar looks ahead, and three birds fly above.

UberZeitgeist

2 months ago

Do the Rules of War
Have any bearing today?
Ask the physicians

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #InvasionOfUkraine #InvasionOfPalestine #InvasionOfIraq #InvasionOfSyria #InvasionOfAfghanistan #InvasionOfGeorgia #InvasionOfSudan #InvasionOfAnywhere
#RulesOfWar
#GenevaConvention

October 17, 2023

UberZeitgeist

2 months ago

What is it that makes
One invasion repugnant
The other righteous

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #InvasionOfUkraine #InvasionOfPalestine #InvasionOfIraq #InvasionOfSyria #InvasionOfAfghanistan #InvasionOfGeorgia #InvasionOfSudan #InvasionOfAnywhere

October 17, 2023

Color graphic image of a globe of the Earth superimposed over the shape of a hand grenade, with the firing pin pulled from its safety position, lying on the surface in front of the grenade. The oceans are blue, and the land masses yellow, with red highlighted areas.

UberZeitgeist

2 months ago

Mastodon deadlocked
Systemd recovery
Chrooted back to life.

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #MastodonTech #TechSpeak #Chrooted #Tooted

October 14, 2023

UberZeitgeist

2 months ago

Just one match away
From a World set afire
Blow it out Earthlings

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #World #Earth #Fire #War #Peace #Understanding #Conflict #Ukraine #Russia #Hamas #Israel #Iran #Palestine

October 9, 2023

UberZeitgeist

2 months ago

A brace of birches
Guides all along the pathway
Not for us alone

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #Birch #BirchTreeAllée #NonNobisSolum #StanHywet #BirchTree

October 7, 2023

Black and white image of the birch tree allée on the grounds of Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens in Akron, Ohio, USA. The image shows a long pathway paved with stone under an arch of white birch trees along the entire length of the 200 meter pathway, created more than a century ago.

UberZeitgeist

2 months ago

All good things must pass
Oft said but never so apt
Goodbye to the Lake

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #Family #Cottage #Lake #Sibs #Legacy #TheEnd

October 1, 2023 5:00 p.m. EST

UberZeitgeist

2 months ago

@Flipboard @bookgaga @brianbilston @Codgerverse @TashPoetry @worded_art

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity

Paper's pen driven
To write/indict/incite then
Drop words to the World

October 2, 2023

UberZeitgeist

2 months ago

Rainy gray days dim
The light of Autumn's changes
We know what's coming

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #Autumn #Equinox #Fall #Sol #Sun #Seasons #Change

September 27, 2023

UberZeitgeist

2 months ago

"Inattentional"
When blinded by ignorance
Is blind anyway

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #InattentionalBlindness #Blind #Ignorance #Thought
September 22, 2023

UberZeitgeist

3 months ago

Bright forsythia
Planted sprig by sprig by her
Golden radiance

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #Sun #Light #Mom #Mother #Summer #Forsythia #Seasons
September 18, 2023

Color image of a row of forsythia glowing gold in the sunset across a lake in Northeast Ohio. Image shows tall white pine trees at the top, a row of blooming forsythia across the middle along along a split-rail fence, and along the bottom the road, with shadows of the trees and forsythia long across the gray surface.

UberZeitgeist

3 months ago

Time-weary Old Sol
Spinning toward equinox
Eyelids drooping fast

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #Sun #Equinox #Sol #Summer #Fall #Autumn #Seasons
September 16, 2023

Color image of a sunrise over the Atlantic Ocean from coastal South Carolina's Low Country. Image shows the sun just rising above a gray ocean, above it layers of clouds in grays, greens, oranges, yellows and reds, and above that layer, a thin layer of blue sky tapering into puffy golden and orange and gray clouds a the top of the image, with seagulls crossing.

UberZeitgeist

3 months ago

Slumbering season
Dream in pillows soft and white
Let Spring pass you by

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #Seasons #Summer #Fall #Spring #Winter #Ohio
September 15, 2023

Black and white image of the moon during a winter snowfall, moonlight illuminating pine trees, casting their shadows to the snowy ground below.

UberZeitgeist

3 months ago

Autumn approaches
Changing summer's verdant hues
Into fall's glory

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #Summer #Fall #Autumn #Change #Seasons #Weather #Leaves

September 14, 2023

Color image of a high school football field in Northeast Ohio, with a forest of trees on three sides turning to fall's colors. The upper half of the image is a blue sky, while the lower half shows trees in full fall colors of reds, oranges, yellows, golds, and browns around the stadium, shadows and sunlight playing across them. The stadium is green and half-visible, and at the bottom of the photo, more trees in shadow play with the fading sunset light.

UberZeitgeist

3 months ago

A "Never Forget"
Is oft forgotten by folks
Not Nine Eleven.

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity
September 11, 2023 #WorldTradeCenter #NYC #WTC #TwinTowers

Color image of the World Trade Center. This photograph is from January, 1986, and is a view from the sidewalk in front of the Twin Towers, looking straight up the exterior wall toward the sky, which is blue and mottled with white wispy clouds.

UberZeitgeist

3 months ago

Twenty-Two years past
Last day for this New York view
Next day changed the world

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity
September 10, 2023 #WorldTradeCenter #NYC #WTC #TwinTowers

Color image of the World Trade Center's twin towers. Image shows the towers as seen from the street below, standing slightly overlapping each other, the tall broadcast tower on top of the tower left, the other tower closer to the photographer, against a perfect blue sky.

UberZeitgeist

3 months ago

The deed half-done now
Money changers changing locks
Keys with no future.

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #Change #Loss #Mourning #Family #Lake #Cottage #Sibs #Ignorance #Legacy
September 8, 2023

UberZeitgeist

3 months ago

Magic sold for gold
Cashing in their legacy
We are all Judas.

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #Change #Loss #Mourning #Family #Lake #Cottage #Sibs #Ignorance #Legacy
September 6, 2023

UberZeitgeist

3 months ago

All these years later
Untying the ties that bind
Mom would not be proud.

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #Change #Loss #Mourning #Family #Lake #Cottage #Sibs #Ignorance #Legacy
September 5, 2023

UberZeitgeist

3 months ago

It's a fool's errand
Breaking all into pieces
Just to keep the peace.

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #Change #Loss #Mourning #Family #Lake #Cottage #Sibs #Ignorance #Legacy
September 4, 2023

UberZeitgeist

3 months ago

Few things say summer
The way that ice cream cones do
You had me at "Hi"

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #IceCream #Treat #Dessert #Ohio #Sweet #Summer #Hi #Hello
August 30, 2023

Color image of four ice cream cones at a Northeast Ohio USA roadside ice cream stand. Image shows four different ice cream cones, each with candy eyes looking at the viewer. Upper left is chocolate ice cream with colorful sprinkles and yellow candy eyes in a waffle cone, upper right is a chocolate-vanilla swirl cone with yellow and blue candy eyes in a standard cake cone, lower left is a chocolate ice cream swirl with yellow candy eyes, and lower left is blue raspberry ice cream with white and yellow candy eyes in a waffle cone.

UberZeitgeist

3 months ago

Clouds glower above
Portent of fair or foul just
A matter of time

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #Weather #Time #Fair #Foul #Cloud #Sun #Sunrise #Summer
August 27, 2023

Black and white image of sunrise in Northeast Ohio USA. Upper part of the image is a heavy cloak of clouds, splitting the center of the image is a strip of clear sky to the northeast horizon, and from the midpoint down is the city, sleeping, not yet ready to rise, still covered in darkness. The sun is just hinting at its rising in the far right of the photo at the horizon.

UberZeitgeist

3 months ago

Like a jet engine
Buzzing through trees at midnight
Storm-waked neighborhood.

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #Storm #Summer #Thunder #Lightning #Weather #Leaves #Debris #Ohio
August 25, 2023

Color image of tree downed during a midnight summer run of a storm line of thundershowers through northeast Ohio.

UberZeitgeist

3 months ago

Bright flashes of light
Followed by long rumblings
Summer storm music

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August 24, 2023

Color image of a summer thunderstorm over Akron, Ohio, USA. Image shows heavy storm clouds in the top third of the frame, in gray, white, and black shades, while in the center third a downburst of rain drops violently to the surface. In the lower third of the frame downtown building are lighted by flashes from the storm, illuminating their surfaces of brick, stone, marble, glass, and more, revealing sharp details contrasting with the gray deluge above.

UberZeitgeist

4 months ago

Trees storm-sacrificed
Ocean gives and takes and gives
New homes for many.

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August 17, 2023

Black and white image of skeleton trees, coastal South Carolina, stranded and claimed by the ocean following a hurricane's shifting of the dunes and shoreline. Image shows three trees, two larger and one smaller, standing in the surf beyond the sandy beach at low tide, their branches bared by the storms, bark gone, boughs pointing left, right, and up, reflecting in the water on the sand, with a long horizontal line of ocean miles beyond, and a cloudless sky above.

UberZeitgeist

4 months ago

The best saxophone
Just may be one on the wall
Silently noted.

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August 16, 2023

Color image of an art piece hung on a wall in a jazz club in Northeast Ohio. It is a stylized bent-wire saxophone rendered with blue-painted boards for the body, and a green-painted board for the mouthpiece of a saxophone, with white keys. It is mounted high on a wall, with spotlights arranged on both sides.

UberZeitgeist

4 months ago

How long a bully
Can remain a club member
Is up to the club.

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August 11, 2023

UberZeitgeist

4 months ago

Fair fare's fair fare fair?
Huge dusted elephant ears
Just might take the cake.

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August 4, 2023

Color image of an Ohio county fair's elephant ear confection, made by deep-frying a large piece of doughnut-like dough, then covering it with confectioner's powdered sugar. Image shows the food filling the photo, in the rough shape of an elephant's ear, fried to a golden color, then liberally covered with powdered sugar, and lying upon a sheet of waxed paper, is is a favorite fair food in the United States.

UberZeitgeist

4 months ago

Sometimes it's as if
The whole world's gone upside-down -
Just here for the ride.

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August 3, 2023

Color image of a ride at a county fair in Northeast Ohio, USA. The riders have been inverted by the ride's motion, sitting upside-down, some with arms extended. Bright blue sky fills the background, the ride mechanism is brightly colored in shades of yellow, orange, red, purple, and blue, and covered with lights. Shaped like a claw, it hold aloft and inverted four ride cars loaded with four riders in each car, so with their arms extended, feet to the sky.

Michelle Hoffmann - DVI

4 months ago

Humming to himself,
The huntsman strolls down the trail.
Never suspecting.

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UberZeitgeist

4 months ago

Seaside oak forest
A plethora of secrets -
Tangled webs indeed.

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August 1, 2023

Black and white image of a seaside roadway in coastal Carolina, United States, covered by an archway of live oak trees creating shadows and shade over the unpaved road. Lower part of the image is the width of the unpaved road from ditch to ditch, mid portion shows the vanishing point of the road ahead, perhaps one mile distant, and the upper part of the image is the live oak tree branches arching over the road, knitting their branches together with each other, as the sun's dappled light tries to pass through.

UberZeitgeist

5 months ago

Phoenix is afire
Best advice: cool and hydrate -
Sure - in a desert.

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Color image of children posing for a photo in front of saguaro cactus in Phoenix, Arizona at the historic Camelback Inn, measured temperature 117 Fahrenheit in the shade. August, 2003.

UberZeitgeist

5 months ago

Sad and mad differ
Not by just the first letter -
But by depth of pain.

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July 6, 2023

UberZeitgeist

6 months ago

Which of these is best:
A carefully measured life
Or exhausting all?

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June 16 2023

Image of fireworks above a baseball stadium and an adjacent parking deck. The dark sky is lighted by an exploding fireworks shell, spraying white, pink,and red embers above the crowd below. The stadium lights are visible on the right, turned off for the fireworks, and tall downtown buildings are on the left side of the image, lighted for the evening. People are standing on the plaza, looking up at the sky.