Rocky Mountain High. From the fractured haiku collection.
I did,
I do every damn day.
Do you?
At St Mary’s Glacier, off I-70, past Idaho Springs, five miles or so up Fall River Road, at 10.000 feet and climbing. The doing is going somewhere new.
October 2025
To fail is no sin —
the true wrong is not to try,
then, sit and wonder.
— Bashō no yōna, May 2025
First Thoughts
“If I fail, it is not a sin, the sin is not to try and wonder.”
Random stuff on relationships. Has Bashō no yōna gone off the track? I think not. Bashō’s spirit is kept alive, of observing nature and relationships. The twist, a modern introspection. 5–7–5 or close enough, cause nothing’s perfect.
Haikus
Separate journeys —
sometimes paths will intertwine,
sometimes they depart.
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Not just random chance—
relationships have their way,
kismet, fate — who knows.
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we were meant to be
two burning stars, now spent
— nothing is forever
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God, the universe —
whatever your guide may be,
always works for YOU.
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This is the way it ends,
Not with regret,
But tears and goodbyes.
Last thoughts
Inspired by William Shakespeare’s quote: “We are such stuff as dreams are made on and our lives are rounded by a little sleep.” Thank goodness, now that I’ve dreamt, I can rest.
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I like to think, and sometimes say, we are no different you and I. True and not true since some of us like to talk too much. That is why, I suppose, Matsuo Basho got in the habit of seeing everything in the form of a 5-7-5 haiku. Life’s not complicated, or is it?
An easy puzzle,
if each piece fits — I get it.
How easy is that?
Write a haiku using the phrase “how easy is that.”
You wake, you rise, sigh —
for coffee, press the button,
How easy is that.
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Life’s like a bread in the toaster — sometimes it’s warm and buttered, sometimes it’s burnt to a toast.
Burnt toast again, sigh —
Why do I try, I’m no chef,
How easy is that?
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Wordle gives us feedback in the form of green, yellow, and grey tiles where green represents a correct letter in the correct position, yellow represents the correct letter in the wrong place, and grey means you completely blew it. Assuming one chooses different letters, the odds of getting all grey tiles in the first round is:
(25/26) to the 5th power ≈ 0.814. That’s roughly one in ten. I have managed to go two rounds without a singe correct tile. What are the odds? They say it should be .814 times .814, roughly .6. I wonder?
I have also managed to get into one of those rhyming scenarios where the choices seem endless and I always pick the wrong word. Oh well…
no green, no yellow,
five tries, today, no Wordle,
how easy is that?
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Here’s one about typing letters to form words on the keyboard. Answer me this if you can — How do we think and not think about how to type?
one thinks, one types, wow,
the keys come naturally,
how easy is that…
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