Chen-ou Liu's Translation Project: First English-Chinese Haiku and Tanka Blog

Sunday, March 31, 2024

Easter Sun Haiku

each
drop
of
dew

Easter
sun

reprinted in Serbian Haiku Anthology edited by Dajan Bogojevic


Added

Easter sunshine
nun-bartenders  pull pints of beer
topped with God's word


(FYI: Reuters, March 26: "In Spain, nuns, [who run a bar, the House of the Mother, opening at 10 am, in the Sanctuary of Estibaliz outside the Basque city of Vitoria], quench pilgrims' thirst for beer and the word of God"

I think plenty of people would think it's unusual, because they've never seen it. But you know, it's not a sin to drink a beer  😂 ," said Miami-born Sister Guadalupe, adding that the bar constituted an "open door for us to evangelise")


Added

Unblessed

years after betrayal
I hid alone
in the last pews
at various megachurches ..
this sombre Good Friday 

Death seeks me out
like a green-eyed lover
but yet I live
this Easter Sunday 
in the broken world


FYI: A megachurch has been defined by Hartford Institute for Religion Research (2006) as any Christian church which at least 2,000 members attend in a worship service.