Triptycha
Here always three Haiku and/or Tanka are compiled (where appropriate provided with comments), which to some extent “intruded” themselves shortly after their finishing for such an arrangement, first in April 2019: They complement one another by engrossing or emphasizing the common context. Normally (with few exceptions) these haiku and tanka are published only at this place, and not in other sections of this compilation.
The idea of “triptychon” came spontaneously at that time and takes up the tradition of the three-casement altarpieces which had their period of prosperity during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance in the Christian world.
The “Triptycha” are animated: By clicking on the “wing” this one gets opened resp. closed again. The progression is in reverse chronological order (i.e. the latest on top).
Pietà (May 2025)
Cross-Witness-Trauma
Torture for lifetime –
How can, burdened HERE, THIS be
Ever pushed away?
Pietà
A spark of harm hurts
Every glance in your eyes;
You cannot forget
The pain of your beloved one,
Despite all divine glamour.
“Pietà” is the term in sacral art for rendering the mourning Mary (dolorosa) with her dead son lying on her lap.
Divine Power vs. Bringers Of Mercy
Godfather´s power,
Loud, drowned out silently by
Merciful meekness.
The gorgeous performance of a great requiem in the dome is hushed by facing the unostentatious pietà in the window of a small chapel just nearby.
Turn (Or End) Of An Era (November 2024)
Ratio At Its End
Now we realize
The swansong of everything
What was of value.
Let us enjoy the last days of tranquillity …
In The Eye Of The Typhoon
Tranquil interim
Between the experienced
And upcoming times.
For the turn of the year 2024 to 2025.
dona eis requiem
For those who are here
It will be hard; blessed are they
Having peace by now.
The peace, the tranquillity may be indulged wholeheartedly … “requies” (lat.) is privacy in the narrow, and the eternal rest in the broader sense.
Apocalypse (October 2024)
Apophis
No danger! – Only
A small disturbing factor
Can change everything.
The asteroid Apophis has some years to get hit by a small invisible particle which makes him deviate only marginally from his agravic way.
Apocalypse
The world will vanish
As predicted – the earth has
A little time left.
They are few who understand
The way it could be rescued.
The earth will exist further on in cosmos, even without “homo sapiens”.
memento mori
We may everything
Win here – we will certainly
Lose everything won.
„memento mori” (lat.) = be aware that you will die.
It´s not worth to become sentimental – the end is a question of only a few years. The “Master Of Time”, our foe during lifetime, is not affected by this.
Crucifixa I (June 2023 to January 2024)
„per absurda ad aspera …”
Pain year after year,
Terrible crucifixion –
Just simply absurd!
… after one of these sleepless nights which make the “undiscovered organ” within me sort of burst …
Tender Light Of Salvation: “Christa”
Crucifixa es
quam Iesus – merita nunc
in luce vive.
Crucified you were
Like Jesus – your merit now:
To live in the light.
… focusing the emotions from June 10th, 2023 (see also “Lacrimosa/For Fiona Rose”; her middle name was „Christa” ) …
per aspera ad astra
Disburdened from pain
In the beyond – really
Present as light here!
One of many “signs and miracles”: Glowing, however modestly, but undoubtlessly present in a sort of “holy” astral aura!
AI (April 2023)
“AI Can Haiku”
AI can haiku –
Well then! The more the better,
Good for the idea.
“Write a haiku about crocodiles in the universe with a voice of a pirate” – this specification example was found indeed in the brand-new AI-chat feature of the Windows search engine Bing (German version). More ignorance and hubris – rarely possible …
Quo vadis, homo sapiens?
If after knowledge
Now also reflection and
Creativity
Are outsourced, the wise human
Will become quite obsolete.
For the remaining wise Indians only the way to the reservation is left, with the hope for peaceful last days.
Now At Last Intelligence For Everyone!
Artificially
Intelligent masses have
No need to reflect.
Kant (March 2023)
Rest In Peace, Kant!
Chat-GPT Bot –
Human brain and memory
Become obsolete.
AI has reached the game-changing level! Now nobody has need to reflect if this seems to be inconvenient. System-independently co-creative evolution competence is thoughtlessly given away.
Kant´s “Last Words”
The human free thought,
Sparked by urge and vocation
As part of nature –
Now more than just a machine,
Living up to dignity.
AI-friars and new-world-magnates turn back this level of evolution, achieved after centuries of self-sacrificing struggle, within some months and years to its stark contrast.
Ther verses follow up to the thoughts of Immanuel Kant´s closing in his famous essay from 1784.
Chatbot Slaves vs. Thinking Brains
Chatbot slaves vs.
Autonomously thinking:
Water and Fire.
“Dare to know! (Sapere aude.) Have the courage to use your own understanding! […]. Laziness and cowardice are the reasons why such a large part of mankind gladly remain minors all their lives, […] why it is so easy for others to set themselves up as guardians. It is so comfortable to be a minor […]. I have no need to think, if only I can pay; others will take care of that disagreeable business for me.” (Immanuel Kant 1784)
Wakan Tanka (February 2023)
Wakan Tanka / Dainin Vision # 43 left
Cosmic chaos is
Effected by myriads
Of parameters, …
Here the first part of the comment had to follow as a haiku …
Wakan Tanka / Dainin Vision # 43
Unfathomable –
The overall cosmic law:
Rational, but deep.
Unpredictable, because
Irrational: God´s acting.
The great cosmic law will be incomprehensible for all time: myriads of parameters ensure that it can be seized in its, nonetheless rational, depth even by the largest human or artificial intelligence only as chaos. God, as a subset within, born with the big bang, is not less uncomprehensible, he, however, as the “Master Of Time”, by means of abstrusely irrational acting.
“Wakan Tanka” is, for North-American Lakota Indian peoples, the “great spirit” which flows through all creature.
Wakan Tanka / Dainin Vision # 43 right
…, volitionally
Acts the “Master Of Time”, cold,
Unpredictable.
… in order to be, with the second part as a haiku, the WAKAN TANKA triptychon!
Dignity (August/December 2022)
Dignity II …
What is a human
Worth if it is worth no more
To be worth something?
The rather spontaneous discovery that a comment line is a perfect haiku as well was just overwhelming.
The original inspiration, as it was with the first “dignity” haiku in July, provided a Forbes essay by the author Ida Auken from November 2016: “Welcome To 2030: I Own Nothing, Have No Privacy And Life Has Never Been Better”.
Dignity Was Never Inviolable …
Prudent minds chiefly
Are worthy of Dignity:
They are strong enough
To fight for Her honestly
And at last perish with Her.
Final disenchantment of an expiring year with lots of findings.
Cultural Revolutionary Indoctrination
The wise spirit dies –
Cultural revolution
Kills his dignity.
The “Great Reset” sweeps away all spiritual achievements hard-won painfully and paved with casualties of at least half a millenium.
Humanism (November 2022)
Humanistic Illusion
Only very few
Affected few – mankind was
Immature for that.
Once more a commentary which was a haiku by means of little amendment.
Back To The Dark Middle Ages
Fatally failed the
High-minded humanism:
Unapt for masses
Simple-minded, nor elites
Being egomaniac.
Post- and trans-humanism are sure to make it better now by means of obtrusive dogmatics …
“Life (Un)Worthy Of Life”
Transhumanism
Debases the desire
To be wise at last.
Shall we really let AI and “new” eugenics decide about life to be worthy or unworthy to exist?
Philanthropists (July/August 2022)
cogito, ergo sum?
Unpropertiedly
Happy – “don´t worry …” – no need
To think any more.
“Don´t worry …” may be seen as a bridging to the famous song by Bobby McFerrin from 1988, in the English version – but the author´s primary idea here is inspired by a line from the famous poem “Reklame” by the Austrian lyric poet Ingeborg Bachmann from 1956 …
THEY Will Possess YOU!
“They will have nothing
For their own – and be happy.”
The kindly so-called
Philanthropists will possess
All then – even happier.
These ones who are meant here will surely recognize themselves – and surely as well they will have nothing to reflect, or not to mention to regret anything …
Dignity …
Conditioned without
Any property human
Forfeits dignity.
What is a human worth if it is worth no more to be worth something?
Easter (April 2022)
Rainbow Bloodshed
Victims of world´s peace
Pay tribute for some delay
Of the Great World War.
“Let It Be!” (Accipe!)
GOD – victim like me
In the cosmic chaos all
Born by the Big Bang –
When will he abide with me
In struggling for peace on earth?
The End Of The Rope
Flashed by the light of
Salvation in the beyond
Distress gets worthless.
… a vision which made the little benefits in the own environment the most worthwhile thing in this world – THUS every life will have sense!
Rainbow (March/April 2022)
“History Recalls How Great The Fall Can Be”
Happy rainbow dance –
Shot in the foot! Moral is
Now newly defined.
Hard-hitting reality, valid for more than six thousand years, has overrun the day dreamers and the brave-new-virtual-world fetishists.
“History recalls How Great The Fall Can Be…” – the first words from the “Fool´s Overture” ballad by the rock band Supertramp, 1977.
“The Great Reset” - Back To 1918
Warlords´ hubris has
Abruptly disenchanted
The rainbow dreamers –
Wild pandemic tsunamis
And death as price for freedom.
1918 was worldwide rampant the “Spanish flu”, and the Ukrainians fought against Lenin´s Red Army for their independence.
The “Sacred Tree”
Tibetan prayers´
Flagstaff bent down by flags with
Tibetan prayers.
… almost a Saint (June 2025)
(In April 2019 the first triptychon ever was made, spontaneously …)
… almost a Saint
Really a Saint
She could have become if she
Were what she once was:
Silent angel of the world,
Meek light of FUTURE FOR ALL.
Just “being different” made her unique, a hotspot of global attention …
(… which now, by very sensitive reasons, is not posted here.)
Witnessed cruelty remains unforgotten – a handful of compassionates is left behind while the victim receives deliverance from martyrdom.