Haiku + Tanka: Archive
All Haiku and Tanka which have already been published here are, collated in four topical categories, listed therein in reverse chronological order (i.e. the latest on top). In each case the date of origin is found at the bottom.
Inside and Emotions …
jo yo rin (Haiku)
The forest silent –
… as an indispensable maxim for what is imminent. “Jo yo rin” – “silent inside oneself as the forest” – is the second line of the “Furinkazan”, the slogan on the historical Takeda clan banner, very popular in Japan. (December 2021)
The forest silent –
Safeguarded, secure within,
Be alert, prepared.
… as an indispensable maxim for what is imminent. “Jo yo rin” – “silent inside oneself as the forest” – is the second line of the “Furinkazan”, the slogan on the historical Takeda clan banner, very popular in Japan. (December 2021)
Jesus AND Jizo (Haiku)
Both of them enjoy
“… et in terra pax hominibus bonae voluntatis” means expressively: “and peace on earth for (only?) THESE humans of good mind”! (March 2025)
Both of them enjoy
Everyone on their bright path
Having a good mind.
“… et in terra pax hominibus bonae voluntatis” means expressively: “and peace on earth for (only?) THESE humans of good mind”! (March 2025)
Signs And Wonders (Haiku)
Lines of reasoning
… after newly repeated experiences: The relation of the thought and the seen sometimes bears overwhelming manifestations. (April 2025)
Lines of reasoning
Raise unimpressive, plain things
To wonderous signs.
… after newly repeated experiences: The relation of the thought and the seen sometimes bears overwhelming manifestations. (April 2025)
“Counter-destructive Attitude” (Haiku)
Whatever THEY do:
Only this way you can resist the attacks by the “Masters Of Violence” and be a refuge for longing souls. (Februar 2025)
Whatever THEY do:
Be You a steadfast fortress
Keeping peace of mind.
Only this way you can resist the attacks by the “Masters Of Violence” and be a refuge for longing souls. (Februar 2025)
Somewhere Out There (Haiku)
Somewhere in the dark
Freely adapted from the refrain of Runrig´s “last song”, the legendary band from Scotland, whose music was by my side distinctively for over 30 years of my life. How often their songs were my source of power in dark times! At last they have opened the gate to eternity, where someone is already waiting for me, tenderly smiling … (February 2025 / Valentine)
Somewhere in the dark
I lost you – I´ll meet you there
Somewhere in the light.
Freely adapted from the refrain of Runrig´s “last song”, the legendary band from Scotland, whose music was by my side distinctively for over 30 years of my life. How often their songs were my source of power in dark times! At last they have opened the gate to eternity, where someone is already waiting for me, tenderly smiling … (February 2025 / Valentine)
fiat lux! (Haiku)
Within myself lots
The title is the result of a marvellous epiphany while just completing this haiku. (January 2025)
Within myself lots
Of sources unite – it´s ME
To be power now.
The title is the result of a marvellous epiphany while just completing this haiku. (January 2025)
toro nagashi (Tanka)
Drifting messages,
My “concept”, thus communicated on several occasions within a short time, rests upon Buddhist virtues like harmony, patience, and, by all means, also slowness. Anybody who means there must be taken more notice of it may care to initialize this on his own. (December 2024)
Drifting messages,
Left to the plain dynamic
Of the water flow.
Important: I set them out
Without selfish purposes.
My “concept”, thus communicated on several occasions within a short time, rests upon Buddhist virtues like harmony, patience, and, by all means, also slowness. Anybody who means there must be taken more notice of it may care to initialize this on his own. (December 2024)
The Weapons Of The Mantis (Haiku)
Praying folded hands,
Every carelessness may cost the life. (July 2024)
Praying folded hands,
However, deathly for the
Careless nearby one.
Every carelessness may cost the life. (July 2024)
vita contemplativa (Haiku)
I will be present
(July 2024)
I will be present
Where it makes sense, I will else
Not intrude myself.
(July 2024)
Inspired by Far-East Wisdom and the Old Testament (Tanka)
Seven times a day
(February 2015)
Seven times a day
I have pardon with myself,
My imperfectness -
However, eight times I try
To do my work perfectly.
(February 2015)
Well-nigh Endlessly Free! (Haiku)
The freedom to be
I have served the system for decennia – now the system must set me free. (August 2024)
The freedom to be
Slave of the system no more
Makes deeply relaxed.
I have served the system for decennia – now the system must set me free. (August 2024)
Heartfelt Thanks To My “Young Cordial Minds” (Tanka)
You are my treasure
It is a really high privilege being dignified to experience that quite a lot of little flames are going on to enlighten their future times. (May 2022)
You are my treasure
That only children can be
For their parents who,
Having grown old, always see:
You make me go on living.
It is a really high privilege being dignified to experience that quite a lot of little flames are going on to enlighten their future times. (May 2022)
Problem Coping Strategy / Dainin Vision # 40 (Haiku)
The problems of life
About the whole purpose of this “rigorous” genre of lyric; quite also motivation for everyone to try this by oneself, if problems seem to be back-breaking – and as well whenever positive vibes cannot be withheld. (July 2022)
The problems of life
Constrained by power of words –
Somewhat tamed this way.
About the whole purpose of this “rigorous” genre of lyric; quite also motivation for everyone to try this by oneself, if problems seem to be back-breaking – and as well whenever positive vibes cannot be withheld. (July 2022)
“Halfway” (Tanka)
The vertex well reached
(February 2018)
The vertex well reached
In the brilliant summit sun
View turns all around –
Exciting expectance for
What the bottom will provide.
(February 2018)
Back In the Valley (Haiku)
Returned from the top,
(August 2010)
Returned from the top,
Downslope wind’s incessant stream
Shakes the window blinds.
(August 2010)
Society and Politics …
Silent Running (jo yo rin II / Haiku)
The silent forest:
The irrational, abyssal acting of few who have the power to manipulate masses, makes approaching the end of an era … The haiku takes up the “jo yo rin” haiku from December 2021 and quotes the title of a science-fiction movie from the year 1972. (February 2022)
The silent forest:
Hide and survive – protect Him
As He protects you.
The irrational, abyssal acting of few who have the power to manipulate masses, makes approaching the end of an era … The haiku takes up the “jo yo rin” haiku from December 2021 and quotes the title of a science-fiction movie from the year 1972. (February 2022)
(Not Really) Newly Defined: “divide et impera” (Tanka)
The global power
On August 23rd, 1939, the foreign secretaries of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, Ribbentrop and Molotov, signed a secret agreement: unconciliatory enemies suddenly were common profiteers. Both of them had free rein now for their ranges of interest – Poland, the Baltic states, and later also Finland had to foot the bill. (March 2025)
The global power
Negotiated again
between potentates:
Hostile ideologies
Become business partners.
On August 23rd, 1939, the foreign secretaries of Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, Ribbentrop and Molotov, signed a secret agreement: unconciliatory enemies suddenly were common profiteers. Both of them had free rein now for their ranges of interest – Poland, the Baltic states, and later also Finland had to foot the bill. (March 2025)
non sufficit orbis (Tanka)
Spectacularly
In March 1939 Hitler and his foreign minister Ribbentrop let the Czechoslovakian President Hácha specifically come to Berlin in order to let him know there that, after the already ignominious Munich Agreement only a few moths ago, he would finally be knocked out now, as well as his “Rest-Tschechei”.
The title “The World Is Not Enough” was the slogan of Philipp II. of Spain, who had to bury his arrogant ambitions when he lost the Armada in 1588. (March 2025)
Spectacularly
Despots in history were
Crisis managers:
They had not to take care of
The weaker ones´ dignity.
In March 1939 Hitler and his foreign minister Ribbentrop let the Czechoslovakian President Hácha specifically come to Berlin in order to let him know there that, after the already ignominious Munich Agreement only a few moths ago, he would finally be knocked out now, as well as his “Rest-Tschechei”. The title “The World Is Not Enough” was the slogan of Philipp II. of Spain, who had to bury his arrogant ambitions when he lost the Armada in 1588. (March 2025)
Ratio At Its End (Haiku)
Now we realize
Let us enjoy the last days of tranquillity … (November 2024)
Now we realize
The swansong of everything
What was of value.
Let us enjoy the last days of tranquillity … (November 2024)
Matter Of Fact (Haiku)
Broad agreement of
No sympathy any longer for weak ones´ dignity … (March 2025)
Broad agreement of
Values – run out! Now despots´
Concepts dominate.
No sympathy any longer for weak ones´ dignity … (March 2025)
nunc intellegite! (Haiku)
Let sanity rule,
The inspiration: Psalm 2:10. The meaning of the Latin title is expressed by the last two words of the second line.
If EVERYWHERE might be understood urgently that it is make-or-break time. (February 2025)
Let sanity rule,
You who have power, be wise!
The world needs you now!
The inspiration: Psalm 2:10. The meaning of the Latin title is expressed by the last two words of the second line. If EVERYWHERE might be understood urgently that it is make-or-break time. (February 2025)
As It Was Anytime (Tanka)
Godfather´s might beats
Mighty ones, qua natura always egomaniacal, never were respectful. (February 2025)
Godfather´s might beats
On the table with clenched fist,
And it will happen!
We must go forth to meet him
Alertly, with dignity.
Mighty ones, qua natura always egomaniacal, never were respectful. (February 2025)
”Non-alternative Democracy” And The Result (Tanka)
No “alternative” –
NO “democrature”! In our country now WE are challenged to prevent the dramatic consequences of former arrogance.
(A CDU-SPD coalition) “would be the renewal of a coalition, which - formerly under chancellor Angela Merkel - has a long-lasting effect up to now and drove protest voters to the political edges.” (German TV news “Tagesschau online” on Feb 7th, 2025, reported by Markus Sambale about ARD-Deutschland-Trend/“Sonntagsfrage”; English translation by Ishisan) (January 2025)
No “alternative” –
Past political style of
The exalted one –
Just this is the reason why
We have “alternatives” NOW …
NO “democrature”! In our country now WE are challenged to prevent the dramatic consequences of former arrogance. (A CDU-SPD coalition) “would be the renewal of a coalition, which - formerly under chancellor Angela Merkel - has a long-lasting effect up to now and drove protest voters to the political edges.” (German TV news “Tagesschau online” on Feb 7th, 2025, reported by Markus Sambale about ARD-Deutschland-Trend/“Sonntagsfrage”; English translation by Ishisan) (January 2025)
Farewell to the Critical Discourse (Haiku)
Willy Brandt once waged
The “democracy-icon” Willy Brandt would be shocked today – he 1969 released the formula having become famous afterwards to respect the “other opinion” at eye (and ear) level. Unfortunately today only few have the courage to forthrightly say what is true. (May 2020 / January 2025)
Willy Brandt once waged
More democracy; now trite
Mainstream dominates.
The “democracy-icon” Willy Brandt would be shocked today – he 1969 released the formula having become famous afterwards to respect the “other opinion” at eye (and ear) level. Unfortunately today only few have the courage to forthrightly say what is true. (May 2020 / January 2025)
Perseverance (Tanka)
Problems will remain
… humble in facing own exiguity, however, grand in facing own dignity. (January 2025)
Problems will remain
Problems if you don´t withstand –
But simply flee them,
And burden other ones with
Putting THEIR head on the line.
… humble in facing own exiguity, however, grand in facing own dignity. (January 2025)
“How can you smile when the reasons for smiling are wrong?” (Tanka)
Society now:
The title is a line from the “Christmas Song” by the rock band Jethro Tull, released first in 1969. (December 2017)
Society now:
Perpetually controlled
By massed apps and ads -
Suffocated the earnest
Sense of how to save the world.
The title is a line from the “Christmas Song” by the rock band Jethro Tull, released first in 1969. (December 2017)
Well-meant Warning To All “New Leaders” (Haiku)
History recalls
This was never different in history of mankind handed down since 6,000 years (the burning places of war actually attest this to us) – they might not, egomaniacally, put things too far! (January 2025)
History recalls
To history deniers
Hard-nosedly itself!
This was never different in history of mankind handed down since 6,000 years (the burning places of war actually attest this to us) – they might not, egomaniacally, put things too far! (January 2025)
In The Eye Of The Typhoon (Haiku)
Tranquil interim
For the turn of the year 2024 to 2025. (November 2024)
Tranquil interim
Between the experienced
And upcoming times.
For the turn of the year 2024 to 2025. (November 2024)
“Sad-voiced Winds Moan In The Distance …” (Tanka)
The old warrior is
The poem title is taken from a speech of Chief Si'ahl (= Seattle) from the Duwamish people, in 1854 addressed to the President of the United States, and reconstructed later. (April 2021)
The old warrior is
CONTEMPORARY no more;
Old wisdom about
The TIMELESS valuables
Might be forgotten with him.
The poem title is taken from a speech of Chief Si'ahl (= Seattle) from the Duwamish people, in 1854 addressed to the President of the United States, and reconstructed later. (April 2021)
On The Triumphal Quadriga (Haiku)
Potentate people,
The triumphal quadriga, the ceremonial carriage drawn by four horses in ancient Rome, a winner mounted, with the victory laurel wreth held above his head by a slave steadily saying: „Be aware you are only a human!”. (November 2024)
Potentate people,
Remind that you are mainly
Just fellow humans!
The triumphal quadriga, the ceremonial carriage drawn by four horses in ancient Rome, a winner mounted, with the victory laurel wreth held above his head by a slave steadily saying: „Be aware you are only a human!”. (November 2024)
Without Overzeal, Without Grimness / Dainin Vision # 44 (Tanka)
Who lived carefully
The “sine ira et studio” by the Roman historician Tacitus stands for composure and balance allover in thinking and acting – consequently also for fair-minded sustainability. If EVERYONE would pay heed to this in the own “little environment” … . The basic idea also flows through the “Short Epilogue”. (April 2023)
Who lived carefully
In his small environment
– with fellow humans
AND nature – spent a good life,
Whether it was long or short.
The “sine ira et studio” by the Roman historician Tacitus stands for composure and balance allover in thinking and acting – consequently also for fair-minded sustainability. If EVERYONE would pay heed to this in the own “little environment” … . The basic idea also flows through the “Short Epilogue”. (April 2023)
The Inviolable Dignity Of The Individual (Tanka)
My power, too weak
(December 2021)
My power, too weak
To take part in controlling,
My dignity, strong
Enough to be self-controlled
than under remote control.
(December 2021)
Epitaph for the Factual (Haiku)
Fanatic spirit
(December 2016, for a school project promoting tolerance)
Fanatic spirit
Leads to perdition if it
Suffocates reason.
(December 2016, for a school project promoting tolerance)
Aware Of A Rubicon Decision (Haiku)
The stumbling block: Hit
To throw autocratic ones from their feet of clay there is needed oftentimes only little power at the right place. (September 2024)
The stumbling block: Hit
Into motion it can cause
Debris avalanche.
To throw autocratic ones from their feet of clay there is needed oftentimes only little power at the right place. (September 2024)
How True … (Haiku)
Veritably great
Nowadays mankind would be able to comprehend cosmos and nature, and conjointly to find solutions für global problems – God would be obsolete! (September 2024)
Veritably great
Things mankind could realize
If there was not war.
Nowadays mankind would be able to comprehend cosmos and nature, and conjointly to find solutions für global problems – God would be obsolete! (September 2024)
On Atlas´ Shoulders …? (Tanka)
At the tipping point
Inspired on the occasion of my demission from active employment. (July 2024)
At the tipping point
The world, perplexed the elites –
Mollycoddled by
Smartphone and AI the youth:
The schools permanently stressed.
Inspired on the occasion of my demission from active employment. (July 2024)
Chernobyl (Tanka)
From the sinking ship
… reminding of the inescapability when it is too late for everything – now posted here on Hiroshima Day 2024. (May 1986 / February 2015)
From the sinking ship
Only comes who paid for the
Place in the lifeboat.
But the boat will meander
Just on the same elements.
… reminding of the inescapability when it is too late for everything – now posted here on Hiroshima Day 2024. (May 1986 / February 2015)
Survival Concept (Tanka)
Everyone gathered
… if every human in his own little environment – fellow human AND nature! -, would do only THAT, it would become difficult for the “Master Of Pain”. (September 2023)
Everyone gathered
Might act for well-being of
His own little world.
God might not push things too far –
No one will keep faith in Him!
… if every human in his own little environment – fellow human AND nature! -, would do only THAT, it would become difficult for the “Master Of Pain”. (September 2023)
Against the Selfishly Progressive Elites (Tanka)
To query all things
(May 2015)
To query all things
Is contemporary mode.
Courageously you
Dare to use intelligence
And dare to provide answers!
(May 2015)
Few Words Of Wisdom (Haiku)
Ratio-inflamed lights
(September 2023)
Ratio-inflamed lights
Perpetually burning
Among the zeitgeist.
(September 2023)
E-Migration for Everyone! (Tanka)
Hurrah, emigrate!
(January 2020)
Hurrah, emigrate!
The New World to escape to
Is now virtual.
The morbid natural world
Is buried in oblivion.
(January 2020)
War And Peace (Tanka)
The mighty one brings
An idea arisen in the morning, got lost over day, and recovered in the evening. (June 2024)
The mighty one brings
War to the irenic one.
The irenic one
Has war of the mighty one.
Anytime in history.
An idea arisen in the morning, got lost over day, and recovered in the evening. (June 2024)
“Opium For The People” (Haiku)
Desillusionized
The title is a derivate – emphasized by Lenin – of a statement by Karl Marx. Then directed against the clergy, but now apparently to be understood expressis verbis: anticipating the vulnerability and the decay of a “clean-minded” young generation, because refined by crisis early in life … now at least cannabis is “socially acceptable” in Germany! (March 2024)
Desillusionized
Generation, now at least
Drug-mollycoddled …
The title is a derivate – emphasized by Lenin – of a statement by Karl Marx. Then directed against the clergy, but now apparently to be understood expressis verbis: anticipating the vulnerability and the decay of a “clean-minded” young generation, because refined by crisis early in life … now at least cannabis is “socially acceptable” in Germany! (March 2024)
Urban Idyll (Tanka)
City flair today:
After a short visit in a city nearby, which was in no way satisfying: There is absolutely nothing left for me … September 2023
City flair today:
Dead stores lined up - “coming soon …”
What will be coming?
Nail salons best: They are now
Already overcrowded!
After a short visit in a city nearby, which was in no way satisfying: There is absolutely nothing left for me … September 2023
Resilience (Tanka)
Once more the world has
It is well-known for thousands of years that self-composure is essential for life, or even survival: school of life makes the attentive one advance there. (April 2024)
Once more the world has
Good faith of having a new
Paradigm – but,
As frequently in past, has
Nothing else but a new word.
It is well-known for thousands of years that self-composure is essential for life, or even survival: school of life makes the attentive one advance there. (April 2024)
Tepid War (Haiku)
The war once called cold
Some hotspots and their inhabitants are the battlefields of the world, similar to 1914-18, THEY are the ones suffering for all, regionally gated - yet … (October 2022)
The war once called cold
Is hot for unfortunate ones,
Worldwide else tepid.
Some hotspots and their inhabitants are the battlefields of the world, similar to 1914-18, THEY are the ones suffering for all, regionally gated - yet … (October 2022)
The Teacher On The Home Straight (Tanka)
Always spreading hope
The fast loss of the earth alignment to the Pole Star - by reason of “imbalance”, not of precession-nutation! - swifts with the climate zones everything else. (September 2022)
Always spreading hope
Among young ones making them
Confidently be
Prepared for life in a world
Losing natural balance.
The fast loss of the earth alignment to the Pole Star - by reason of “imbalance”, not of precession-nutation! - swifts with the climate zones everything else. (September 2022)
Humanity expired
Dainin Vision # 23 (Tanka)For hundreds of years
Following new insight into the need of cryptology, which aligns with the alledged need of virtual omnipresence. (January 2021)
Dainin Vision # 23 (Tanka)
For hundreds of years
Human virtues, worthwhile, now
Worthless overnight.
Against algorithmic might
You will hear my human voice.
Following new insight into the need of cryptology, which aligns with the alledged need of virtual omnipresence. (January 2021)
Something Left to be Rescued (Tanka)
All is satisfied
(May - September 2014)
All is satisfied
With cool mediocrity –
But the world will have
A small chance if everyone
Strives to achieve perfection.
(May - September 2014)
Nature and Cosmos …
Sunset Is Falling Like The Last Sunset … (Tanka)
Young blackbird´s short chants,
The songbirds decrease: those ones with less experience sound wihout a partner against their senselessness. A swan song for the present time … The title alludes to the song „Morning Has Broken”, which has become popular 1971 by Cat Stevens (originally an older song by Eleanor Farjeon 1931). It is continued “blackbird has spoken like the first bird”. (May 2021)
Young blackbird´s short chants,
Abrupt melodies, some vibes
Of melancholy.
Sunrise, dawn, the whole day he
Chants for a female in vain.
The songbirds decrease: those ones with less experience sound wihout a partner against their senselessness. A swan song for the present time … The title alludes to the song „Morning Has Broken”, which has become popular 1971 by Cat Stevens (originally an older song by Eleanor Farjeon 1931). It is continued “blackbird has spoken like the first bird”. (May 2021)
Winter (Tanka)
Winter´s sun, shrouded
(February 1991 / February 2015)
Winter´s sun, shrouded
Deceivingly, pricks my skin,
While I am searching
For the fire which once gave
To me some light and warmness.
(February 1991 / February 2015)
The Perpetual Temporality Of Sense (Tanka)
New sense created
Lao Tzu and Zhuang-Zi have hit the mark already a long time ago with their discovery of “painless uselessness”. (November 2024)
New sense created
From destroyed materia,
For at last once more
Getting destroyed senselessly
To make new sense grow again.
Lao Tzu and Zhuang-Zi have hit the mark already a long time ago with their discovery of “painless uselessness”. (November 2024)
Fall (Tanka)
Tenderly last sun
My very first poem in this style, inspired by an instant impression. (October 1985 / February 2015)
Tenderly last sun
Makes warm my sorrowful soul,
Whilst obviously
Picks leaves, frequently still green,
Just winter-cold breeze of death.
My very first poem in this style, inspired by an instant impression. (October 1985 / February 2015)
Self-determined “By Nature” (Haiku)
Prime numbers - finely
Of course they are divisors by themselves, but themselves only, as everything, divisible by the smallest element (here of natural numbers). (June 2024)
Prime numbers - finely
Renitent, they are not shared
With anything else.
Of course they are divisors by themselves, but themselves only, as everything, divisible by the smallest element (here of natural numbers). (June 2024)
Summer (Tanka)
Strained by the long draught
(March 1992 / February 2015)
Strained by the long draught
Clinks under the first raindrops
The soil, soundingly,
Within a black wall, lightens
Irately raging fury.
(March 1992 / February 2015)
Yin + Yang (Tanka)
Equilibrated
Yin = Yang – short moments of perfection in paradisaic tranquillity; standard is the perpetuous movement of energy and materia – the “dark wave going to drown the light”. (November 2022)
Equilibrated
Are few short lucky moments –
Undulant powers
Determine normality:
Balance – a major effort!
Yin = Yang – short moments of perfection in paradisaic tranquillity; standard is the perpetuous movement of energy and materia – the “dark wave going to drown the light”. (November 2022)
Spring (Tanka)
The birds enchant the
(May 1987 / February 2015)
The birds enchant the
Silently upcoming day.
For such a long time
I missed them. Thus death and life
Go and come, year after year.
(May 1987 / February 2015)
Cherry Blossoms Fall ... (Haiku)
The blossom - nothing
(April 2006)
The blossom - nothing
For the tempest; for the bee
Nothing less but life.
(April 2006)
Dainin Vision #1 (Tanka)
When the world will frack
(November 2017)
When the world will frack
Soil slices will become arks:
Lashings and pickets
Keep prepared – just mourn shortly
Those you see drifting away.
(November 2017)
God …
Unconditionally Discharged (Tanka)
Vindicated was
For the perfidious context and intrigues see the Old Testament 2 Samuel 11 + 12. (January 2025)
Vindicated was
David The King, protected
By divine power.
Hell-fired were Urija
The brave, and a little child.
For the perfidious context and intrigues see the Old Testament 2 Samuel 11 + 12. (January 2025)
A Relevant Difference (Tanka)
MERCY is an act
This makes the difference between God, highly enthroned above all, and tender-hearted human beings. (July 2024)
MERCY is an act
Of despotic caprice by
The mainly involved,
PITY caused by compassion
Of a not-involved helper.
This makes the difference between God, highly enthroned above all, and tender-hearted human beings. (July 2024)
Further Proof Required? (Tanka)
Young ones he removes,
On, as good many times, painful occasion … (July 2024)
Young ones he removes,
Leaving behind endless pain.
Old ones HE retains,
Perpetually tortured.
HE IS the master of pain.
On, as good many times, painful occasion … (July 2024)
Earthly Pain Expiring (Haiku)
Dignity also
EVERY creature struggles against violent, painful death - regardless of its destination! (May 2024)
Dignity also
Comprises condign death: short
Be the final pain.
EVERY creature struggles against violent, painful death - regardless of its destination! (May 2024)
Retained In The Limbus (Haiku)
Too weak for to live,
How long else? … So many people long for their merciful relief. (July 2024)
Too weak for to live,
Too strong for to die - tortured
Soul in the limbus.
How long else? … So many people long for their merciful relief. (July 2024)
“Inferior Force” (Haiku)
As underdog I
… as so frequently in history: the dignity of the inferior one can become an inextinguishable power. (May 2024)
As underdog I
Withstand superior force
Of tribulations.
… as so frequently in history: the dignity of the inferior one can become an inextinguishable power. (May 2024)
Quick And Achy (Haiku)
If human love is
This kind of happiness God envys the human being since Adam and Eve. (May 2024)
If human love is
Wholehearted, God proves to be
Disturbing nuisance.
This kind of happiness God envys the human being since Adam and Eve. (May 2024)
Hell – Heaven – Earth (Haiku)
Reincarnation
THIS WAY peace with the “Master Of Pain” is quite impossible! (May 2024)
Reincarnation
Makes the perpetual pain
Restart once again.
THIS WAY peace with the “Master Of Pain” is quite impossible! (May 2024)
Radical Insight (Haiku)
PERVERSE is that MAN
(November 2013)
PERVERSE is that MAN
Who impertinently dares
To behave like GOD.
(November 2013)
Epitaph for Judas Iscariot redeemed (Tanka)
“Good were it for him
According to Matthew 26:24 and Mark 14:21 - King James Bible (January 2015)
“Good were it for him
If he had never been born.”
But what could HE do
To prevent what even HE
Was destined to accomplish?
According to Matthew 26:24 and Mark 14:21 - King James Bible (January 2015)
(Ishisan 2024)