FIVE HAIKU BASED ON A QUOTE by Paulo Coelho Quote

FIVE HAIKU BASED ON A QUOTE

by Paulo Coelho Quote:

“We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.”  

1

Jackals leave their young

To pursue the scent of birds—

Greedy overkill.

2

Moon, you waste your time

Dreaming the impossible—

Be yourself and shine.

3

Flowers never fight

Color wars; instead they don

Their raiment like kings.

4

Fish and fowl live

Simple lives in sea and sky—

They know their places.

5

Toads on the lilies

Croak tower clocks to silence—

Time flies unnoticed.

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EASY PREY

EASY PREY

This is the simple way most view life,

their notions compartmentalized

either black or white, haunched behind

glass panes, deceptively final,

as if selecting one, negates

the other, a trade-off between

What-you-see-is-what-you-get

and Look-deeply-into-my-eyes.

We think we see the pebbled rain

in the clarity of assumed truth.

Questions abound in the spinning

orbs of niggling uncertainty.

Too often we opt for beauty,

the strains of the joy horns,

something to see and grasp in hand,

the misguided sense we live here

Forever. Or we give ourselves

back to where we began:

Repentant, exchanging black

and white for God’s Light.

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