Haiku for every day of January 2025
January 1
Parades, football, sun
What a way to start the year
Reading too, and prayer
January 2
To entertain the
Boys, Diane bought cool machine
Make cotton candy
January 3
Lasting impressions
IMAX impressionism
Andi and the boys
January 4
this year, much the same
my body’s bits and pieces
make it through each day
January 5
Am I short-sighted?
AARP membership
One year at a time
January 6
Car shines after wash
Google maps icon matches
Home, boy! Take me home
January 7
Travel to heaven
Or at least Jollyville Road
Such a grand street name!
January 8
Yep! It’s where we live
Day by day, see you more clearly
Rising of the sun
January 9
Burning LA fires
Houses gone in 10 minutes
I can feel the heat
January 10
Floats of flowers gone
Countless blossoms lost and burned
…Horses sometimes saved
January 11
Husbands, wives, hold on
To each other as the fire
Burns what matters less
January 12
Fire, flood, Romans 8
… nothing can separate us
So we cling to You
January 13
Wake up, out of bed
Morning pages start my day
Settle in silence
January 14
Order at midnight
Mac mini just down the street
Paradise and Main
January 15
Apple at Domain
Picked up M4 Mac Mini
Carried my prize home
January 16
This fancy machine!
Can I put it all together?
Mostly fun for me
January 17
Austin’s friendly pigs
Kenedy’s FFA hamp
New friend won grand prize
January 18
Wump World by Bill Peet
Pollutians colonize wumps’
Happy paradise
January 19
Martin Luther King
Learned non-violence from Jesus
And like Jesus, killed
January 20
Inauguration
Trump calls start of Golden Age
Lots of billionaires
January 21
Winter in Austin
Turtleneck, cold, inch of snow
But it won’t last long
January 22
Marg – eight hour wait
At Austin airport while I
Drive to Rolla, MO
January 23
Hurry up and wait
Urbana in plenty of time
I’ll sleep well tonight
January 24
I don’t do enough
Deb looks at me, says, “will you
Stop thinking like that?”
January 25
See through my failure
To God’s complete competence
He will never fail
January 26
Birthday lunch with Jim
Off to Springfield, Eagles and
Chiefs to Super Bowl
January 27
Sister and brother
A nice time was had by all
I buy next breakfast
January 28
John makes a fine host
Even when he’s on hospice
Sit before the fire
January 29
Prison weddings – sweet
Dress blues for early morning
Smiles all around
January 30
Dallas, clipped a curb
Scared the daylights out of me
But I made it home
January 31
Marg’s plane was delayed
Flight attendant new hero
Bed by 2 a.m.
