Category Archives: Religion

Daily Haiku: March 19, 2023

in our doorway a man reads to me a bible passage by Tom Clausen (USA) Frogpond, Vol. XXX, No. 1, 2007

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Daily Haiku: Aug. 7, 2022

a blizzard outside I want to believe what the preacher says     by LeRoy Gorman (Canada) The Heron’s Nest, December 2010

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Daily Double Haiku: June 8, 2022

genuflection the weight of stained glass     by Charlotte Hrenchuk (Canada) Prune Juice, Issue 36, 2022

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Poem by Larry Janowski (USA)

Religious Poem by Larry Janowski I hear you secretly groaning, Jesus Christ— not religion! Well, yes, but not a sermon in poem’s clothes, but the thick Latin root of religion, the lig of it — as in ligament, tough stuff … Continue reading

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Daily Haiku: Feb. 27, 2020

winter sunlight a priest blesses father’s eyelids by Roberta Beary (Ireland/USA) Simply Haiku, Vol 5:4, 2007

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Daily Haiku: Feb. 8, 2020

All Souls Day the pauper’s grave washed clean by rain   by John J. Dunphy (USA) Acorn, #14, 2005

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Daily Haiku: Sept. 9, 2019

wakeup call a rooster beyond the churchyard gate by Tom Painting (USA) bottle rockets, #34, 2016

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Daily Haiku: Aug. 21, 2019

light falls through yellow maple leaves the mercy of God by Ellen Grace Olinger  (USA) Full of Moonlight: Haiku Society of America Members’ Anthology, 2016

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Daily Haiku: July 24, 2019

browning lilacs the months since my last confession by Elliot Nicely  (USA) Presence, #56, 2016

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Daily Haiku: Nov. 7, 2018

lying on my back in light snowfall a glimpse of the Maker     by Bill Pauly  (USA) The Sacred in Contemporary Haiku, 2014

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