On the Jade Harvester Set Dungeon

A haiku inspired by playing too much Diablo 3. I have one last item on the to-do list to get the Season 5 pet, and it's a class set dungeon, and the class set I have leads to a tricky dungeon that I haven't figured out how to do yet...


Locust swarm and haunt?
Or multiple soul harvest?
This dungeon is hard.

Circus Clown

Going for a bit of a lighter tone in this one. I have no clue where it came from. Right before it I was thinking about how nothing of note has happened to me today and I have nothing to write poems about.

Do you see it, Mr. Brown?
I don't know. It's upside down.
Are you sure it's not a frown?
I think we need a circus clown.

What the hell? What the hey?
Why a circus clown today?
Circus clowns will laugh and play
and all the frowns would go away.

Poetry Per Day

Thing learned recently on Facebook: that Ray Bradbury said to write a poem every day. Someone I follow there, Steven Barnes, has decided to do this (again, he's done this before apparently), and I liked the poem he shared. It sounds like something I would say, and in fact a lot of what he says sounds like things I either would say or need to hear, which is why I follow him.

I'm not sure why poetry is suddenly more appealing to me than prose right now, maybe just lack of time and inclination to work on anything I have in progress while others (mostly Alcar) are super excited about Camp Nanowrimo this month, and I kind of feel like I should do something productive while sharing a cabin with them. So I changed my goal to writing 30 poems this month.

Here's the first one.

And lo,
The longstanding knot had loosened so far
that the lightest touch of love was enough to make it come undone.
And so the fear smoothed away,
and unfettered sorrow came into the light of day,
and the tears flowed and let it all go,
and the healing could begin.