Jon has commented on my burst of Haiku’s recently and has responded in kind. Way to go Jon, but your poem is a Senryu. I like it though…

I have been trying to discipline myself to write real Haiku, so this afternoon, while sitting in the garden in front of my workplace, while waiting for my brother, I was observing the beauty of my surroundings and composed a couple. Here they are: Birdsong from oak tree Rich earth by the garden path Delicate flower Sunlight on flower Bowed by the gentle breeze Evidence of Spring Your poet,

This morning I woke up to the sunshine streaming in from my window, and an alarm beeping from across the room. It wasn’t a completely unpleasant experience, but I really don’t like getting up in the morning. Perhaps this ties in with the fact that I don’t like starting things. Food for thought anyway. I wrote a Haiku to capture the moment, because like photographs, Haiku capture a moment in time dealing with the physical world. Here is it: The bright morning sun Shines from an open window An alarm goes off Your poet,

A friend of mine who lives in CA just mentioned that there was an earthquake there. Wow. Here is another Haiku to remember the occasion: Ground shakes beneath me Forces striving together I awake from sleep Yours truly,

This is my first Haiku I think, the others have been more in the form of Senryu than Haiku. Haiku speaks of nature almost all the time, and should express the present here and now of a moment. Senryu is a more flexible form, like Haiku in form but not in expression. Here is my Haiku for you: Leaves rustle in the wind The coolness of a night breeze Sleep overcomes me Yours truly,

well… i’m all packed and ready to go. just a little less than two days left to go, and we’ll be in the air. i’m excited by the prospect of flying, and getting to see Africa, but at the same time, i am sobered by the responsibility of our task. we have been charged with the responsibility to teach 37 Ugandan pastors how to study scripture. we will be helping to “train the future leaders of the Ugandan church” as my pastor has said. i hope and pray that i will be able to make the kind of impact these…

Today is Mothers Day, here in the US, and i wanted to everyone to know just how cool my mom is. In Proverbs 31:28, it says that a noble woman’s children will, “rise up and call her Blessed”. All my life, my mother has been a Godly woman. Her example at home in her walk with God was instrumental in my life as i grew up and had to make decisions of my own about how i was going to serve God. My mom is one of the most creative people i know. Me and my brothers never lacked for…

today, the people of Saint Louis mourn the loss of two firefighters who died in service to the community over this last weekend. their funerals are today and tomorrow. Derek Martin and Rob Morrison were both 38 and had families. In honor of their sacrifice, here is a Haiku: the helpless in need saved by those who care and lead two fallen heroes truly yours

FoxNews.com has released this story by Wendy McElroy commenting on statements made by some big names in radio and other media. The call is going out to parents, that the public school system isn’t working that there are viable alternatives. Marshall Fritz, founder of the Separation of School and State Alliance has put on an online petition here. As a homeschooler and a christian, I completely agree.

i’m a fan of haiku. its a way of capturing a moment in time, preserving a memory you find important. like photographs, they grab a single instant, expressing in words the emotion and circumstances of what was going on when it was written. the Japanese invented the form to capture the moments of the passing seasons. well, it was surely inevitable and the time has come. some one has written a perl script to scan the news and create haiku from the stories. some of the haiku are amazingly good, some are not. it’s up to you as the reader…

my brother has teased me because i went two whole days without posting to my blog. he thinks that i deserve this cause i give him a hard time about not posting very often. personally, i don’t think he has any room to talk. i happened to be gone for the weekend, at home with my parents, and thus missed a whole day without posting. course… i don’t do that very often, unlike a certain sibling of mine who used to go days without posting. so this is what i have to say to him… hmph! #:P

it’s amazing what coming home is like, especially when mom and dad live in a tiny little country town. its like my heart just relaxes. i’ve spent the last couple days hanging with my folks, bonding with dad while working on my car, and giving grandma hugs. :) my mom says i don’t come home enough, and she is probably right. the world we live in is a big place, and there are few places so safe as home. there’s something about being in your parents house, and talking with them about things in the future. incidently, they keep asking…

When the database here at work crashed, we did the sensible thing… we called Sybase Technical support, because the problem wasn’t with our hardware, it was with their software. Their solution was to buy a new disk controller, cause it might be bad. Raid Five disk arrays cost about $3000.00, and problems would be detectable. I think they were just trying to pass the blame, cause they don’t have any clue what the problem is, and they don’t want the blame. i was inspired, here is another haiku to honor their stupidity… The disk is broken Mighty Sybase has spoken…

Recently at work we have been experiencing technical difficulties with a certain database product. Over the last few days the sentiment here at work can be summed with this haiku: Sybase support sad Unexpected crashes bad Please use Oracle yours truly,

ok… i don’t really have anything terribly interesting to point out on the news, and no comentary on social issues comes to mind, but it’s been a few days since i’ve blogged and i’m afraid if i don’t write something i’m going to forget how. so there. incidently, pontiacs stink. and whoever the engineer was who thought it would be a good idea to use plastic instead of good reliable metal needs to be horse wipped. having spent the last four days trying to figure out how to get the remains of some plastic threads out of my engine block,…

Happy Anniversary Mom and Dad! :) 28 years. Love you both. In honor of your achievment, and many more years to come, here is a Haiku for you: Twenty-eight years for Richard and Priscilla Wall Anniversary This post has been updated, cause I’m a bad rememberer and I said 26, then 27, when they have actually been married 28 years. Sorry Mom and Dad, love ya anyway. :)

Why do we worry about stuff? I was asking myself this question today, and was wondering why I felt anxious about my car breaking down again, and why I was having such a hard time trusting God. When I thought about it closer, it was the loss of income that bothered me most, and the inability to pay off debts, or do other things that made me worry about my car breaking down. Having your car break down almost always means either a lot of work, or a lot of cash, and in my case also a debt of gratitude…

My friends in Nebraska are trying to find some website… and are having trouble… so here it is emode.com. Hi Esther and Spring and Erin… :)

My friend Tamara is graduating tomorrow, and she will be moving away to Iowa, and I will not be able to see her for a long time. Tonight was her senior recital, and she played beautifully pieces from Bach, Brahms, Debussy, and Rachmaninoff. In her honor, I have composed a haiku. Musical talent A girl never forgotten My friend Tamara I will miss you Tamara, fond farewell…

Have you ever been thrown into a project where you had just enough information to get yourself into a lot of trouble? This is kinda how I feel sometimes, because most of the time I’m doing something new, and although I am familiar with the idea conceptually, I have little experience with actual implementation. The curse of a career not long started since college. Inevitably, I get deep enough into the project that I can’t really back out, and I go through all the design and conceptual work. And each day is one day closer to that time when I…