Missing Life Staring At My Screen: Haiku Lament

This gorgeous Fall morn

I, at breakfast, stared at my

phone*, not life. Why? Fail!

OR
*screen

No Apologies To Stephen Hawking: Revolutionary ImproVerse Haiku

“While there’s life, there is hope.” STEPHEN HAWKING, People’s Daily Online, Jun. 14, 2006

Even when there is/
no life, there is life, and so/
there is always hope.

Life IS sometimes tough./
But nuke your escape plan and/
make one to live by.

The hair will grow back./
The eyeglasses won’t. In life,/
we have to take risks.
Or
The eyeglasses won’t. The risks/
We take can vary.

Life is like dancing./
Sometimes we need a partner/
to help keep the beat.

Can there be a life from/
Death? If it changes someone’s/
behavior, maybe!

A day* to be filled/
with joyful companionship/
is lonely instead .
OR
*life

If you live your life/
full of regrets, you’ll, sadly,/
live To regret it.
Or
full of regrets, you will live/
to regret regrets.

Why do I feel guilt/

for not seeing you when we/

have our lives to live?

Some pain can happen./
But the risks we take by not/
playing are much worse.