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Lectio + Haiku -- January 2008
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Haiku
Not exiles, we are
Fools who left the Holy Way-
How do we get home?
-- Brad, Port Townsend
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Tight knots of dry grass,
a cowering coyote,
thunder, and dark rain.
-- Greg, Seattle
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Mississippi Blues:
Delta Highway 61,
U.S. Holy Way.
-- Greg, Seattle
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Rejoice highway deer
You are among God’s people
Rejoice with leaping
-- Nancy, Port Townsend
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The deer
eat my trees
Watching them entertains me
That is my weakness
-- Katie, Port Townsend
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The lame
hand lacks strength
Muscles of the weak can’t leap
Dry bones are brittle
-- Tere, Port Townsend
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God save
me from dry
reason—let me play in the
water like a fool
-- Margaret, In the Courtyard
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Deaf,
blind, fearful fools—
we abundantly blossom
On the holy way
-- Elisabeth, Port Townsend
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Such a
long way down
This highway—I seek the strength
To go the whole way
-- Brad, Port Townsend
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The first six haiku posted this month (in
italics) were
written in a workshop I offered last month at my home parish of
St. Paul's.
Each haiku shares a word (or form of the
word) with both the verse that comes before, and the one that
comes after.
You don't have to follow this pattern in your
own haiku, but you can if you choose. Just take a word from the
haiku at the top of the list, and use that word in yours.
Scripture
Isaiah 35:1-8
The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad,
the desert shall rejoice and blossom;
like the crocus it shall blossom abundantly,
and rejoice with joy and singing.
The glory of Lebanon shall be given to it,
the majesty of Carmel and Sharon.
They shall see the glory of the LORD,
the majesty of our God.
Strengthen the weak hands,
and make firm the feeble knees.
Say to those who are of a fearful heart,
"Be strong, do not fear!
Here is your God.
He will come with vengeance,
with terrible recompense.
He will come and save you."
Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened,
and the ears of the deaf unstopped;
then the lame shall leap like a deer,
and the tongue of the speechless sing for joy.
For waters shall break forth in the wilderness,
and streams in the desert;
the burning sand shall become a pool,
and the thirsty ground springs of water;
the haunt of jackals shall become a swamp,
the grass shall become reeds and rushes.
A highway shall be there,
and it shall be called the Holy Way;
the unclean shall not travel on it,
but it shall be for God's people;
no traveler, not even fools, shall go astray.
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