Ambivalence here
I've come to cover up fear
but I don't work cheap

767

Verizon routers
and questions that surround them
are not on my route

762 - 766 (I Am He...)

Dad just said to phone
"He doesn't say very much."
Wonder who "he" is.

For all that I say
I think much more quietly
Need to balance that

Many extroverts
could learn a thing or twenty
from introvert friends

Sometimes I write here
instead of getting work done
This has to stop now.

I see pain in him
Though he says all the right things
I hope he gets to vent

761

I don't like to sweep
So I pay to get it done
All kinds of sweeping

760

Birth parents and blood
A home-life only we knew
and yet- vast distance

759

We say holy words
together with the angels
crowning him as one

758 - I Like This One

I'm ambivalent
about my ambivelance;
Not sure this will change

757

Always in a mood,
though we say, "I'm in no mood."
Poetic license.

756

So nice to have friends
and yet so sad that so far
they're so far away

751-755

Funny (not ha ha)

how relative things can be,
Like Amidah speed

Though so few listened
to their truthful reminders
we need prophets back

Just a year ago
I drank the IPhone Cool Aide.
I kept my passport

When Patti Lupone
took away someone's Iphone
It rang true for me

There were 2 Nancies
That my brother was friends with
I found a third one

750

On a two way street
There's a middle point to turn.
Most people pass it.

749

Strong Jewish haiku,
these short poems by a Jew:
Serious and real

737-748

How calm can we be
in this human life of ours
so filled with tension?

How calm was Grandpa
sitting in his big blue chair
next to the TV?

When we pray for peace
does it include peace inside
or only world wise?

Jacob yearned for peace
right before most of his sons
turned against Josef

Yoga people can
be less calm than anyone
pushing for their space

Only stressed people
command other people to
"Relax!" or "Calm down!"

If you get too calm
you can get to just not care
and then fall asleep

I used to recite,
"Music soothes the savage beast,"
trying to calm her

Staying calm between
the stimulus and response:
Victor Frankl's key

To become more calm
requires action and change;
there is no light switch

It is calm outside
pleasantly free from the wind
still, tranquil, quiet

Calm, free from anger;
not showing or feeling it
relaxed, unruffled

These were inspired by the promp of "calm" by HaikuHorizons. Please enjoy these and other poems on their site.

I forgot to link to the poems that site prompted last week via the word "thorn" - available here.

734 - 736

Roseanne Cash is wise:
G-d is in roses and thorns,
she once wryly wrote

Stiff, sharp and pointed
that's the way I feel your words
like a rose's spikes

There's always the thorn
in every situation
even rosy ones