Showing posts with label truth haiku. Show all posts
Showing posts with label truth haiku. Show all posts

Friday, January 23, 2015

A letter does not blush...


Haiku I

Bruised paper marked words
black and blue swollen intent
sharp-edged stabbing truth.














Image by Giacomo Galli c. 1620-1640, "The Penitent Mary Magdalene" (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...