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Haiku: A three lined Japanese poetry genre with ancient roots made up of seventeen syllables 5-7-5. The verses below describe specific and immediate moments, bringing them into the present. They are linked to the experience of Jesus. The reader is also linked to the writer’s imagination sharing the very human experience of Jesus’ call into silence.
Gospel: Mark1: 12-15
And immediately the Spirit drove him out into the desert. And he was in the desert forty days and forty nights, and was tempted by Satan; and he was with beasts, and the angels ministered to him.
And after that John was delivered up, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, and saying: The time is accomplished, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent, and believe the gospel.
He had always been drawn to the early morning silence of his bench.
Golden motes drifting
in the bright shards of new light
restless to begin
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Wisps of fragrant oldThe corner spider
window framed amongst her
pearly web of dew drops
Jasmine’s heady scent,
bees pocketing their share of
the golden plunder
Sparrows flit in the dust
fussing over their vital
domestic matters
Mother’s gentle hum
an early morning prayer
to welcome breakfast
Silence deep and long
holds this newness tight to its
sweet and ageless breast
Presence close and warm
within the deep patterns of
his life draws him on.
He would leave all this and embrace the wilderness
through John’s water plunge
bathed into the deep saving
stream of self knowing
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