A Room of My Own: Guernica Exhibit Haiku

Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, LXXI: "Guernica"

for Pablo Picasso who claimed that "art is a lie that makes us realize the truth."

a keffiyeh-draped youth

gazes at grey-haired men in kippahs

Guernica Exhibit

 

FYI: Probably Pablo Picasso's most famous work, Guernica -- 11.5 feet tall by 25.5 feet long -- is an eye-catching, gigantic 1937 protest/"certainly his most powerful political statement, painted as an immediate reaction to the Nazi's devastating casual bombing practice on the Basque town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War." (Pablo Picasso.org: Guernica, 1937)

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scorching heat

grandpa remembers the smell

of wartime defeat

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reading War and Peace ...

old neighbors' quarrel drifts

through my fence