I see you, Mara
all dressed up in a class A
case of the Mondays
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The key to understanding this haiku for most Westerners is that Mara is roughly the Buddhist equivalent of the devil. Mara visits…
catalyst for change
arrives unexpectedly
disturbing the norm
I’m posting a second today to catch up on my backlog. I’ll leave this one unexplained if you don’t mind.
metamorphoses
both the same person and not
from birth unto death
I am not the same person I was when I was born.
a flood of emotions
pent up over forty years
released to her care
This one doesn’t come with an explanation, it comes with the sincerest expression I can muster to my wife.
a horrible day
infectious if you let it
take a moment — breathe
We all have bad days — each and every one of us.
just three feet away
but the distance between us
might as well be miles
The reader could easily take this haiku figuratively and run in all kinds of directions with it. This haiku, however, is…