Here’s the Poem of the Week for March 28, 2025. It’s another hai-net, seven loosely linked sort-of haiku that take on some of the characteristics of a sonnet. I have several other poems from this week that I hope to share as well. The struggle of this time is calling forth all our voices. Right now it is crucial that we respond. Courage and love are indeed contagious. We have the power we need if we will use it! Please do!
The worst storm rages. The storm poem is a hai-net, seven loosely linked strictly syllabic sort-of haiku that together take on some of the characteristics of a sonnet. The natural storms are signs of collapse or instruments of collapse or warnings or even worse to come. The social storms are intentional attempts to bring down the whole house of our law-based democratic-republic and crush all opposition by any means, legal or illegal, ethical or unethical.
Shakespeare’s play King Lear is a tragedy, and the storms are overpowering, and yet heroic courage and humble love prove to be higher powers. Please be courageous, humble and loving and use your voice even as the storm rages and seems to carry the sound away. Please trust in higher power and do your part to serve it. Thank you!
Thomas Cary Kinder 