Easter lily
a curl at each edge
deepens
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Jesus Wept
war news on mute ...
the sound
of Easter rain
church spire's tip
piercing through half-sleep
a child's scream
I cry
no reason, and yet
(this silence)
FYI: The title, "Jesus Wept" (John 11:35), is widely recognized as the shortest verse in the English Bible (King James Version and many others).
We are growing accustomed to violence, resigning ourselves to it, and becoming indifferent, indifferent to the deaths of thousands of people
Pope Leo XIV, his first Easter Mass
And this is a sequence to my tanka set below:
What Will Come Next?
in Easter sunshine
a billboard atop the church
proclaims:
Mary, called Magdalene
host to seven devils
Jesus is Risen
drifts from the whitewashed church
on the corner
a middle-aged black man
wears a crown of thorns
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After Easter
slate-gray sky
white, trumpet-shaped blooms
curl inward
church door closed
a fallen petal
cups the last light
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a gembun written to T.S. Elliot
April is the cruelest month, I murmur to myself
drinking alone
the sound of snowfall
deepens
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alone ...
the dawn sky
tinged gray
Added: Politics of Distraction, V:
written in response to the Convicted Felon/Peanut-Brained man who sits behind the Resolute Desk
Does this political senryu (comic haiku) work well?
two-week ceasefire …
mid-bite of a taco
he mumbles, I won
FYI: taco stands for Trump Always Chickens Out
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two-week ceasefire
pop, popping under the hood
of a Ford Mustang
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love in my dream
eyes half-closed, lips parted ...
surf crashes ashore
