tiny poems with “i”

the only limits

the only limits
constraining my destiny
are the ones i make / #untrue #haiku

15 december 2017 ego meaning

kick down from the light

kick down from the light
and all i hear is silence
as the world recedes / #descending #haiku

17 december 2017 spirit

i judged you by the

i judged you by the
content of your character
but it didn’t help / #taboo #haiku

15 january 2018 people 100 tiny poems (#18)

i have determined

i have determined
to live in the arena
so i will die there / #atropositive #haiku

26 january 2018 courage death

he will not lay down

he will not lay down
a burden on my shoulders
that i cannot lift / #blameless #haiku

29 january 2018 spirit pain

i live every day

i live every day
but i will only die once
better make it count / #curtain #haiku

6 march 2018 death courage 100 tiny poems (#21)

i perished because

i perished because
i followed the example
of another man / #derivative #haiku

9 march 2018 ego death 100 tiny poems (#19)

i fear the unknown

i fear the unknown
but courage has wisdom that
fear can never know / #pivotal #haiku

12 march 2018 courage 100 tiny poems (#4)

pain is in season

pain is in season
every day if i trouble
to join the harvest / #complicit #haiku

21 march 2018 pain ego

i said forever

i said forever
but what i really meant was
while you still love me / #selfrespecting #haiku

3 april 2018 love

if i die today

if i die today
let me die a better man
than yesterday me / #overdue #haiku

5 april 2018 death

i have to learn how

i have to learn how
to get up from a table
where love is not served / #complicit #haiku

14 april 2018 love pain 100 tiny poems (#47)

i can always make

i can always make
another dollar but not
another minute / #priority #haiku

2 may 2018 time wealth

if i am going

if i am going
to be thinking anyway
might as well think big / #yuge #haiku

11 may 2018 meaning

i can get away

i can get away
with anything in the name
of entertainment / #unrepentant #haiku

30 may 2018 art sin

how will i endure

how will i endure
the tumult of the world if
pleasure conquers me / #temptress #haiku

1 june 2018 grit pain

i am unbiased

i am unbiased
and not to be defeated
by external things / #deluded #haiku

7 june 2018 ego grit

the person i love

the person i love
is a shadow of herself
cast through my window / #platonic #haiku

13 june 2018 love ego

when virtue leads me

when virtue leads me
then i master my pleasures
else i am enslaved / #conditional #haiku

16 june 2018 ego meaning spirit

answers are silent

answers are silent
stealthy predators that stalk
the questions i ask / #baited #haiku

25 july 2018 meaning

every day i wake

every day i wake
my autobiography
gains another page / #draft #haiku

3 august 2018 time

i am only yours

i am only yours
to keep forever if you
don't drive me away / #boundary #haiku

9 august 2018 love

i can accomplish

i can accomplish
anything if i don't care
who gets the credit / #futile #haiku

9 august 2018 love

how can i vanquish

how can i vanquish
what evil falls if i first
incline to pleasure / #temperance #haiku

30 august 2018 ego

i wasted my time

i wasted my time
on trivial things and now
time has wasted me / #wastrel #haiku

5 september 2018 time death 100 tiny poems (#22)

i can speak wisely

i can speak wisely
but have learned to be wary
of excess wisdom / #gödelian #haiku

20 september 2018 ego

from this crucible

from this crucible
i emerge concentrated
more self than before / #alchemical #haiku

23 september 2018 pain ego

i don’t mean to be

i don’t mean to be
at all disrespectful but
shut up and kiss me / #enough #haiku

29 september 2018 love

this raw turbulence

this raw turbulence
i match with the calmness i
cultivate within / #zazen #haiku

5 october 2018 grit spirit 100 tiny poems (#84)

whatever i have

whatever i have
i will neither hoard in greed
nor squander it / #stewardship #haiku

8 october 2018 wealth ego 100 tiny poems (#65)

this high obstacle

this high obstacle
is the canvas where i paint
my next masterpiece / #canvas #haiku

14 october 2018 art pain

like a leaf i dance

like a leaf i dance
to invisible music
under quiet stars / #immersive #haiku

23 october 2018 spirit

my last two pennies

my last two pennies
i bequeath to the sexton
to cover my eyes / #precision #haiku

29 october 2018 wealth death

i cannot exist

i cannot exist
without deciding what my
existence will be / #conditional #haiku

4 november 2018 ego meaning 100 tiny poems (#5)

i broke my own heart

i broke my own heart
against yours and committed
foolish acts of love / #complicit #haiku

13 november 2018 love pain

no more need to fear

no more need to fear
the monster inside of me
for i am legion / #illuminated #haiku

16 november 2018 ego sin

the seeds i planted

the seeds i planted
have grown into a forest
that obscures my path / #inconsequential #haiku

16 november 2018 pain meaning

in a split instant

in a split instant
i recognized you as though
years were just yardsticks / #minkowski #haiku

25 november 2018 love time 100 tiny poems (#93)

what if this prison

what if this prison
is the place where i realize
my purpose in life / #redeemable #haiku

28 november 2018 ego meaning spirit

i became a fool

i became a fool
to find a new beginning
in myself again / #improv #haiku

7 december 2018 ego grit

what word would they speak

what word would they speak
if i could hear ten thousand
voices all at once / #signal #haiku

10 december 2018 spirit

these things that I seek

these things that i seek
will not bring me more joy than
the things that i have / #grasping #haiku

13 december 2018 ego joy wealth

if i want the things

if i want the things
you do not have then i must
do what you will not / #ruthless #haiku

16 december 2018 grit meaning courage

the truth came knocking

the truth came knocking
but i brook no distractions
in my search for truth / #monomaniacal #haiku

19 december 2018 ego

the price of a thing

the price of a thing
is the quantity of life
i exchange for it / #mercantile #haiku

6 january 2019 time wealth death 100 tiny poems (#64)

i carried mountains

i carried mountains
until i learned i was just
supposed to climb them / #overburdened #haiku

9 january 2019 pain ego 100 tiny poems (#25)

the experience

the experience
i am having is the one
i mean you to have / #reverse #haiku

26 january 2019 pain sin

i fully intend

i fully intend
my final shivasana
to be perfection / #intentional #haiku

30 january 2019 meaning ego spirit death

today is the day

today is the day
we find out just what kind of
man i really am / #jailhouse #haiku

11 february 2019 courage ego pain

i kiss your shoreline

i kiss your shoreline
no matter how frequently
you send me away / #obsessive #haiku

28 february 2019 love grit pain 100 tiny poems (#85)

i may win the game

i may win the game
but only if i dare roll
the dice in my hand / #courageous #haiku

1 march 2019 courage 100 tiny poems (#66)

at my happiest

at my happiest
i do not break my back to
strive for happiness / #exhalation #haiku

8 march 2019 ego joy 100 tiny poems (#95)

i just realized

i just realized
this obstacle in my path
is a catapult / #leverage #haiku

13 march 2019 pain grit 100 tiny poems (#67)

i might perceive things

i might perceive things
correctly then act rightly
and fail anyway / #sisyphean #haiku

18 march 2019 grit 100 tiny poems (#50)

i will not give in

i will not give in
to this adversity nor
trust prosperity / #untouchable #haiku

22 march 2019 ego pain wealth 100 tiny poems (#75)

either my riches

either my riches
serve my ends or i am a
slave to my riches / #mastery #haiku

27 march 2019 wealth ego 100 tiny poems (#58)

i opened my eyes

i opened my eyes
and atop this barricade
saw lights for my way / #breakthrough #haiku

3 april 2019 grit pain war 100 tiny poems (#77)

i live suspended

i live suspended
twisting between danger and
opportunity / #suspense #haiku

15 april 2019 ego

i can imagine

i can imagine
anything i want on the
other side of fear / #beyond #haiku

17 april 2019 courage

any point of view

any point of view
can captivate my interest
if i offer it / #curious #haiku

19 april 2019 ego

yesterday is dead

yesterday is dead
and the choices i made are
my inheritance / #desert #haiku

22 april 2019 ego time death

the day i was born

the day i was born
was the first day of my quest
to discover why / #question #haiku

3 may 2019 meaning ego spirit 100 tiny poems (#1)

when everyone else

when everyone else
around me cries disaster
i will press forward / #defiant #haiku

8 may 2019 courage ego grit 100 tiny poems (#69)

i am not so rich

i am not so rich
that fortune lacks the strength to
swallow my riches / #precarious #haiku

27 may 2019 wealth

the brighter the flame

the brighter the flame
the briefer the instant but
i remember you / #memorial #haiku

27 may 2019 love time death 100 tiny poems (#96)

i am dispossessed

i am dispossessed
in order to make room for
the gift of myself / #naked #haiku

12 june 2019 love spirit ego

my soul infuses

my soul infuses
each weapon i bring to bear
and those i lay down / #sheathed #haiku

17 june 2019 war spirit ego 100 tiny poems (#83)

my seventeenth draft

my seventeenth draft
reads like i knew what i was
doing all along / #effortless #haiku

28 june 2019 art grit

i do not allow

i do not allow
the quantum scale to perturb
my frame of reference / #gut #haiku

10 july 2019 pain ego

my destiny is

my destiny is
attracted to the person
i am becoming / #magnetic #haiku

22 july 2019 meaning ego grit 100 tiny poems (#91)

when i judge myself

when i judge myself
even a jury of friends
cannot pardon me / #kangaroo #haiku

2 august 2019 ego

ask not if i marched

ask not if i marched
in step but whether i left
footprints on the road / #napoleonic #haiku

5 august 2019 meaning ego death

if the future is

if the future is
mine to create then i should
make the one i want / #intentional #haiku

7 august 2019 death

i am most homesick

i am most homesick
over places and people
i have never known / #hiraeth #haiku

19 august 2019 love ego 100 tiny poems (#90)

no one like me has

no one like me has
ever existed and i
cannot be replaced / #precious #haiku

28 august 2019 death ego 100 tiny poems (#98)

every day i walk

every day i walk
from the comfort of my bed
into the unknown / #brave #haiku

11 september 2019 courage meaning

i have the power

i have the power
to choose anything from this
menu before me / #penny #haiku

30 september 2019 ego meaning

i contemplate the

i contemplate the
marvel of existence and
rejoice that i can / #miraculous #haiku

2 october 2019 spirit joy 100 tiny poems (#88)

i can't hear silence

i can't hear silence
but i can listen to it
in pregnant darkness / #sleepless #haiku

7 october 2019 spirit

i sing my joy but

i sing my joy but
only the mountain knows the
language of the wolf / #lupine #haiku

9 october 2019 ego joy 100 tiny poems (#86)

if i just practice

if i just practice
every step ten thousand times
my luck will find me / #grinder #haiku

11 october 2019 grit 100 tiny poems (#63)

i spent my whole life

i spent my whole life
preparing for this moment
that just flickered by / #blink #haiku

16 october 2019 pain time

i remind myself

i remind myself
that i am not descended
from cowardly men / #trenchwhistle #haiku

18 october 2019 courage ego 100 tiny poems (#40)

i take the high ground

i take the high ground
because if I do not the
high ground will take me / #resonant #haiku

23 october 2019 grit war art

i visit winter

i visit winter
but i am a mindful guest
and never stay long / #snowbird #haiku

25 october 2019 ego

i am powerless

i am powerless
before machine gun bullets
and a pretty girl / #disarmed #haiku

25 november 2019 death love war

i conquer my fear

i conquer my fear
by submitting daily to
its bitter wisdom / #budo #haiku

27 november 2019 courage grit 100 tiny poems (#54)

kiss me in the rain

kiss me in the rain
and i will never wash my
umbrella again / #reliquary #haiku

29 november 2019 love

i twist as i fall

i twist as i fall
and cling to the rumor that
there is no bottom / #orbital #haiku

4 december 2019 pain grit

i hope to win but

i hope to win but
hope is not a strategy
and strategy wins / #hopeless #haiku

11 december 2019 grit art

if i want to raise

if i want to raise
a new life from old ashes
i must burn this one / #pyrrhic #haiku

16 december 2019 pain grit meaning death

my donkey army

my donkey army
will defeat lions because
i am no donkey / #mongol #haiku

18 december 2019 courage war

i traded these chains

i traded these chains
for a walking stick and a
pocket full of sand / #emancipated #haiku

20 december 2019 ego wealth

my body serves me

my body serves me
to the exact extent that
i serve my body / #covenant #haiku

6 january 2020 grit ego

the buddha i am

the buddha i am
is not the same buddha as
the buddha in me / #monkey #haiku

10 january 2020 spirit ego 100 tiny poems (#79)

the guns fall silent

the guns fall silent
and i can see a girl with
laughter in her eyes / #twilight #haiku

17 january 2020 war death love 100 tiny poems (#44)

the focus i bring

the focus i bring
to this practice is the key
to every practice / #practice #haiku

3 february 2020 grit

freed of all constraint

freed of all constraint
i see this endless rising
circularity / #canonical #haiku

5 february 2020 ego spirit

i associate

i associate
with those whose presence makes a
better man of me / #vampiric #haiku

9 march 2020 ego

my reputation

my reputation
thrives to the extent that i
care nothing for it / #antifragile #haiku

10 april 2020 ego people

the tallest mountain

the tallest mountain
is taller than the tallest
mountain i have seen / #lucretian #haiku

13 april 2020 spirit

hold fast to my arm

hold fast to my arm
and i will carry you home
or we will die here / #shellhole #haiku

15 april 2020 courage war death grit 100 tiny poems (#34)

the more i attempt

the more i attempt
to control my thoughts the more
my thoughts control me / #detached #haiku

22 april 2020 spirit grit ego

i am rewarded

i am rewarded
in public for the things i
practice in private / #backstage #haiku

1 may 2020 grit ego 100 tiny poems (#62)

i am more fearful

i am more fearful
of failing to grow than of
failing at this task / #evolving #haiku

6 may 2020 grit meaning art

i fight to the mat

i fight to the mat
so that when there is no mat
i will not have to / #prophylactic #haiku

8 may 2020 grit ego 100 tiny poems (#55)

i will do far more

i will do far more
for another man than i
will do for myself / #martyr #haiku

18 may 2020 love people

i burned with envy

i burned with envy
when i learned my enemy
hated someone else / #unrequited #haiku

25 may 2020 love

better to do things

better to do things
i can’t explain than explain
things i cannot do / #bullshit #haiku

10 june 2020 love grit

i am more likely

i am more likely
to fool myself than i am
anybody else / #betrayal #haiku

12 june 2020 ego 100 tiny poems (#48)

what i want to show

what i want to show
is far less interesting than
what i want to hide / #sacrificial #haiku

26 june 2020 ego

i scoured history

i scoured history
to unearth entertaining
mistakes to repeat / #trickster #haiku

1 july 2020 people

i whisper the truth

i whisper the truth
but shout every falsehood from
the highest rooftop / #projective #haiku

8 july 2020 ego

the joy i extract

the joy i extract
from every drop of this life
is my best revenge / #intemperate #haiku

31 august 2020 grit

this fear of failure

this fear of failure
if left unchecked will lead to
the failure i fear / #feedback #haiku

7 september 2020 pain ego 100 tiny poems (#49)

confounded by my

confounded by my
triviality i was
carried by vastness / #subjective #haiku

14 september 2020 ego spirit

what is the difference

what is the difference
between these things that i do
and that which i am / #essential #haiku

16 september 2020 meaning grit

confronting myself

confronting myself
it helps to remember that
i am a liar / #compromised #haiku

18 september 2020 ego sin 100 tiny poems (#46)

i question whether

i question whether
this be rare back-handed praise
or faint damnation / #backhanded #haiku

9 november 2020 art

all these things i know

all these things i know
are a thin veneer over
all the things i don't / #ignorant #haiku

17 september 2021 ego art

every squalling birth

every squalling birth
i watched after the war was
an anticlimax / #climactic #haiku

4 july 2025 war time

i mortgaged the price

i mortgaged the price
of every tomorrow i
spent on yesterday / #foreclosure #haiku

30 september 2025 time wealth pain

122 tiny poems with "i"