Category: Haiku

A time for turning the page

One chapter closes
It is time to turn the page
What will happen next?

A very personal poem about a big change.  Today was my last day working as an employee of Fathom.  While I will work on a contract basis for some key accounts , I have launched my own consulting firm.Bright Kestrel Digital Marketing for small business

Bright Kestrel, Ltd. will help small businesses, nonprofits and churches improve their digital marketing.

 

The .htaccess poem

.htaccess file
Why do you bedevil me?
Oops! Bye bye website.

The file in question is integral to Apache web servers. It is can do wonderful things when letters, numbers, and certain characters are arranged in the correct order.  It can also take down a website if the letters, numbers, and certain characters are not in the correct arrangement. The devil is always in the binary details.

They say you should “write what you know”. This, I know.

What have we become?

Baltimore burning
Visions of hell on TV
What have we become?

 

I remember my mother telling us stories of the Hough Riots in Cleveland.  Upon hearing them, I thought this sort of madness was in our past.  Sadly, I was mistaken.

Of plastic grocery bags taking flight for short periods of time

Plastic bags in trees
Entwined with branches, dancing
They’ll never degrade.

I did a good bit of driving on highways this weekend and it seems that there is an epidemic of plastic grocery bags getting caught in the roadside bushes and trees.  Some are so high that I doubt anyone will make the effort to remove them. The bags in the branches may outlive the branches. Sad thought.