A Room of My Own: Easter Lily Haiku

Easter lily

a curl at each edge

deepens

Added:

Jesus Wept

war news on mute ...

the sound

of Easter rain

church spire's tip 

piercing through half-sleep

a child's scream

I cry 

no reason, and yet

(this silence)

FYI: The title,  "Jesus Wept" (John 11:35),  is widely recognized as the shortest verse in the English Bible (King James Version and many others).

We are growing accustomed to violence, resigning ourselves to it, and becoming indifferent, indifferent to the deaths of thousands of people

Pope Leo XIV,  his first Easter Mass

And this is a sequence to my tanka set below:

What Will Come Next?

in Easter sunshine

a billboard atop the church

proclaims:

Mary, called Magdalene

host to seven devils

Jesus is Risen

drifts from the whitewashed church

on the corner

a middle-aged black man

wears a crown of thorns

NeverEnding Story, April 5, 2026

Added:

After Easter

slate-gray sky

white, trumpet-shaped blooms

curl inward

church door closed

a fallen petal

cups the last light

Added:

a gembun written to T.S. Elliot

April is the cruelest month, I murmur to myself

drinking alone

the sound of snowfall

deepens