A Haiku on Good Friday

How the Christ is crushed!
The Prince of life hangs dead. This
outrage cannot stand!

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Haikuing the Song of Songs 8:7 (with Mark 4:39. Read 'em!)
A Haiku for Holy Week 🕯️

Death's waters can't quench
Love; the sleeping Christ will rise
and say, "Peace, be still!"

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Haikuing the Song of Songs 8:8-10 (Read it!)

Are the brothers wise
or overbearing? Wall or
door, what will she be?
At last she speaks for herself:
"I was a wall. Now I'm his."

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Haikuing the Song of Songs 8:7 (Read it!)
(A defective haiku)

The Beatles weren't the
first poets to say or sing,
"Money can't buy me love."

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Haikuing the Song of Songs 8:6 (Read it!)

The LORD jealously
guards the sealed Covenant, with
Death and fierce Fire.

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Haikuing the Song of Songs 8:6 (Read it!)

Seal on heart and arm.
Unbreakable, strong, and fierce.
'Till death us do part.

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A Haiku on Ash Wednesday 🕯️

Dust to dust, we rest
in the sure and certain hope
of resurrection.

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"Walking Home"
Tons of snow and ice–
Ankle deep on the stairway
No Pilates today✍️rTe

Haikuing the Song of Songs 2:7, 3:5, and 8:4 (Read 'em!)
A Tanka

Repeated refrain:
"Don't stir up love 'till it's time."
Control your passion;
let it simmer for a while.
You'll lose no joy for the wait.

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Haikuing the Song of Songs 8:3 (Read it!)

So, the wise husband
sleeps on the right side. (Let the
reader understand).

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Haikuing the Song of Songs 5:10; 7:6; etc (Read 'em!)

While the Lord favours
the heart over outward looks,
these lovers are not
indifferent to beauty.
She's "beautiful". He's "ruddy".

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Haikuing the Song of Songs 7 (Read it!)
A Tanka

Jewels, lilies, a
heap of wheat. Twin fawns, mixed wine,
Lebanese tower.
Metaphors and similes
stir the imagination.

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Haikuing the Song of Songs 6:4-9 (Read it!)
A Tanka

You say she's "the one";
Your perfect dove! Yet, you have
sixty queens, eighty
concubines, and more? Frankly,
I'm a bit skeptical, dude!

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Haikuing the Song of Songs 6:1 (Read it!)
A Haiku for Epiphany 🕯️

'Tis wise to seek Him!
Shulammite did. Magi did.
Let's seek Him with them.

#FridayHaiku on Tuesday
20+C+M+B+26

Things take the time they take. Don’t worry. How many roads did Saint Augustine follow before he became Saint Augustine? (Mary Oliver)

Mary Oliver
has a word for us as we
begin the new year.

#FridayHaiku on Thursday 🕯️

A Tanka on December 26 🕯️

Call it St. Stephen's
or Boxing Day, I love the
quiet day after.
Family's home, leftovers good,
pressure off, Jesus born. Peace.

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Haikuing the Song of Songs 6:3
A Tanka

"I'm my beloved's
and my beloved's mine." Wise
lovers know there are
depths of married joy and peace
in mutual ownership.

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Haikuing the Song of Songs 5:10-16 (Read it!)
A Tanka

Turns out she can praise
his physical attributes
as well as he hers!
She matches his "twin fawns" quip
with her "polished ivory".

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Haikuing the Song of Songs 5:9
A Tanka

"Why choose Him above
others? Is He that special?
Look to another."
No! I forsake all others,
for there is no other Name!

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Haikuing the Song of Songs on the first weekend of Advent
(Song 2:8, with Revelation 22:17 - read 'em!)

"Behold, he comes." Her
Advent anticipation
foreshadows the Bride's.

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A woman roughed-up in the dark night. Does any- one even notice? They beat her because their hearts are dark. Tasked to guard they molest instead. Tremble, violent man, for your Judge sees in the dark He will not forget.

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Haikuing the Song of Songs 5:7 (read it)
A Triple Haiku

Haikuing the Song of Songs 5:3-5 (read it)
A Lune (5-3-5)

"Not now, dear, I just
washed my feet...
Oh... Never mind... Come!'"

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Haikuing the Song of Songs 5:2a - A Tanka

Who hasn't had such
a night? Fragile sleep comes by
sheer circadian need,
but the heart - for worry, love,
or excitement - keeps vigil.

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Haikuing the Song of Songs 5:1b (read it)

Friends' wedding night song:
"Eat, friends, drink; be drunk with love".
Rousing chivaree.

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Haikuing the Song of Songs 5:1a (read it)

A garden of sweet
and spicy euphemisms;
myrrh, honey, wine, milk.

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Haikuing the Song of Songs 4:16 (Read it)

"Lover, come into
your garden. Taste its fruit." An
enthusiastic yes!

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Haikuing the Song of Songs 4:1-7
An augmented tanka (one extra line)

"You're beautiful! With
hair like goats, your fortress neck,
and those cute twin fawns!"
Strange love language shaped by the
pasture and the battlefield.
(Hope it's her love language, too!)

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“What was that?” he cried.
“The death of democracy,
And we will be next.”

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Haikuing the Song of Songs 3:11 (read it!)

When friends invite you
to share their day of gladness,
R. S. V. P. "Yes!"

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Haikuing the Song of Songs 2:7 and 3:5 (read it!)

"Don't stir-up passion
until the proper time." Age-
old advice. Still good.

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