Showing posts with label cup of joy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cup of joy. Show all posts

Thursday, March 19, 2015

"Out of the fullness of the heart, the mouth speaks"--Chaucer (c.1343-1400)


Haiku VIII
A cup of JOY spills-
drips over the chalice rim
eternal Spring flows



Image of painting Lilla Cabot Perry (1848-1933), "The cup of knowledge, 1905" [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Justice

It is only with calloused hands that the heavy body can claw and leverage the self upward on the thorny vine of a life without wince and whi...