My Beautiful Beautiful Disaster My beautiful beautiful disaster My beautiful beautiful disasterMy one and onlyDrowning me constantly Rescuing me daily My beautiful beautiful disasterLights up my lifeAdds to my strifeMakes me feel alive My beautiful beautiful disasterAsks affectionate questionsWhat You Doing? You like it? With Who?Just to get my attention My beautiful beautiful disasterTurning dull … Continue reading My Monday Metrical Musings #276
This has been quite a week! All thanks to three events that shared one message. That recognising our brokenness is the first step towards personal wellbeing and wholeness. What events you asked? And what about brokenness and wholeness? Let me tell you. Meetings of SAHDs Source: The Ordinary Dad The first event was a monthly … Continue reading To Live In Wholeness, First Recognise Your Brokenness
Tree You stand tallImperviousUnswaying Stoic How do you do it?Me I'm in aweMe who's always vacillatingUnable to stand tall Like you! Teach me O Mighty Tree How to stay rod still No matter the storm beImmoveable Strong You stand calmResplendent in the sunUnmoved by the buzzIn this city island chaos I'm frazzledUnsettledFrenticBedazzled Unlike you! Think … Continue reading My Monday Metrical Musings #275
One of my goals last year was to learn cooking. After all, it felt odd to claim I'm a stay-at-home dad (SAHD) these past eight years, yet I don't cook. As much as I dislike stereotypes, as far as the roles of a stay home parent goes (cleaning, grocery shopping, parenting, and all things domestic), … Continue reading How A Morning Spent Cooking Was For Me More Company & Creativity Than Culinary
Rain like bullets White pellets longSlicing sideways Billions of light sticksPlummeting from the sky Cymbals and drumsPommeling above the cloudsThunderous. Relentless.So help us God! You promised no more floodsYet this seems unstoppableRain like bulletsWorse than hail Keeps my son and me inHe's cowering in fear (as am I!)Who will end this torrent?Of sky that's fallin' … Continue reading My Monday Metrical Musings #274
Sighhh....Decline in marriages year-on-year. Decline in the number of newborn babies year-on-year. It's not exactly news. We've been down this road before. So why did the latest announcements on the continued decline in my nation's number of new marriages and babies still sting? With So Few Babies, An Extinction-Level Event Awaits! Photo by RDNE Stock … Continue reading Time To Figure Out How To Live In A World With Fewer Marriages & Babies
Cycling Our Whole Life Through Each time we cycleI discoverWonders and sightsUnusual to behold People in yellow (above)Seated on green lawnsThe peace that radiatesFrom them apparent A different yellow (below)Not too far awayCelebrating marital unionIn a breezy special way Source: Poet's Album (22 Feb 2026) I love these unexpected sightsThank you son for bringing themBecause … Continue reading My Monday Metrical Musings #273
As morbid as the topic is -- worse that I'm expounding on it this first week of the Lunar New Year when feastings and celebrations are going on everywhere -- Death (and the reminder of its eventuality) seems to be something I couldn't avoid this season. One Death After Another Photo by cottonbro studio on … Continue reading Death In The Time Of Lunar New Year
This Week An Island This week an islandI will buildI'll surround it with acid waterLet no one swim intoMy private isle of rest and peaceThis week an island I will build This week a moatI will buildAround my dwellingLet no one else inMy castle sanctuaryThis week a moatI will build This week a heavenI will … Continue reading My Monday Metrical Musings #272
Other than Trump, the other annoying phenomenon that's talked about ad nauseam in the world these days is, of course, AI. Sadly, I too have been guilty of indulging it, devoting at least one blog post on AI in 2023 and again in 2024. And today, another post. I take comfort that, at the very … Continue reading My Nation’s AI Jolly Will One Day Be Its Biggest Folly
