I saw you hiding
in yourself
I saw no lock
from the outside
or handle
to try
maybe your open
or locked from the inside
I will never know
Day 3209, hidden.
Daily picture, Poetrypoem
Day 3208, color.
Daily picture, Poetry
There is so much color in the city
but in my mind
looking back
I see grey
except
when I met you
my wall
standing still in front of you
I do remember
your color
Day 3203, an other day.
Daily picture, My thoughts
I have no real attachment to celebrating the new year. When I was young, it was exciting to buy fireworks and search for leftovers long into the night. Later, I had work where I had to work on those days, and as an anarchist, I can’t help but see the relativism of all these celebrations. And I don’t know why that one day a year is chosen as some kind of turning point, mainly because most of the time, maybe all of the time, real changes happen on entirely arbitrary days. All these traditions come from your surroundings and are fed and seen mostly uncritically, the same traditions that make us anxious about foreigners and let us see women as something other than men, to name just two of the more nasty ones. Traditions are fascinating when you read about them in a history book.
A part of relativizing your own (made-up) culture is realizing that what is normal for you is not normal for others.
- Lunar New Year – Date varies (between January 21 and February 20)
- Rosh Hashanah – Jewish New Year (date varies, usually in September)
- Nowruz – Persian New Year (March 20 or 21)
- Ethiopian New Year (Enkutatash) – September 11 (or 12 in a leap year)
- Thai New Year (Songkran) – April 13-15
- Burmese New Year (Thingyan) – April (date varies, typically mid-April)
- Hindu New Year – Various dates depending on the region:
- January 1 – Gregorian Calendar (widely celebrated globally)
- Korean New Year (Seollal) – Date varies (between January 21 and February 20)
- Tibetan New Year (Losar) – Date varies (usually in February or March)
- Sikh New Year (Vaisakhi) – April 13 or 14
- Bengali New Year (Pohela Boishakh) – April 14 or 15
- Assamese New Year (Bohag Bihu) – April 14
- Odia New Year (Maha Vishuba Sankranti) – April 14 or 15
- Māori New Year (Matariki) – Date varies (usually in June or July)
- Celtic New Year (Samhain) – October 31
- Kazakh New Year (Nauryz Meyrami) – March 21
Day 3202, I can’t.
Daily picture, Poetry
From down here
those guardrails look nice
luckily
down here
I can't fall far
Day 3201, quiet.
Daily picture, Poetry
I love standing in the middle of a crossroad
when it is quiet
Day 3197, falling.
Daily picture, Poetry
In life you sometimes feel like
falling
with no ground
underneath
you don’t tumble
just endlessly
it always seems
you pick up
where it ended
somewhere in thin air
some last time
Day 3195, wall.
Daily picture, Haiku
A wall staying together
bounded by our time
and some imagination
Day 3191, out of.
Daily picture, Poetry
We move in particular ways
just so we can ignore
what is just
out of the frame
Day 3190, cantilever.
Daily picture, Poetry
Sometimes you don’t know what lifts you up
other times you don’t know who you lift up
most of the time we lift nothing
Day 3187, reused.
Daily picture, Poetry
When I feel
looking back
I open a window
to inside
where memories linger
to let some fresh air in
hoping to be at least
reused
Day 3185, there are.
Daily picture, Poetry
There are so many windows to look through
my window
Day 3184, hidden
Daily picture, Poetry
I have to go somewhere
one of two ways
one more light with reminders
one more dark
hidden reminders
remembering
such a human thing
no matter where
you go
Day 3183, just take.
Daily picture, Poetry
I have to vent
but have to grow higher and higher
as not to smoke you out
but just take your sun away
Day 3182, hidden.
Daily picture, Poetry
Small minds are hard to crush
by walking over them
and don’t talk louder
but smaller
Day 3181, symmetry.
Daily picture, Poetry
We appreciate symmetry
even when we are alone
we appreciate the loneliness
we also feel inside
Day 3180, all of you.
Daily picture, Poetry
I am living under this large glass roof
glass walls all around
where I can see the world
but imagine the smells
the sounds
and all of you
Nochrisis 