I have three main interests.

Together, they don’t add up to much,

but they keep me busy.


Maybe you’ll never guess what they are

because you don’t know who I am.

A first, somewhat trivial, attempt at an awesoku. Like a Tanka poem, it has a 5,7,5,7,7 structure; however, you count the words in each line, not the syllables. 5 lines with a total of 31 words. The first 3 lines must have a beginning and an end. The last 2 lines don’t have to stand alone; they can be one continuous sentence broken up into 2 lines. This is commonly referred to as a run-on sentence.

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Today’s Daily Stoic poem:

Work Is Therapy

Work nourishes noble minds
Is your potential being fulfilled?
Self-indulgence often finds
Any motivation is being killed