Let’s face it this holiday
is made for children
who else would relate to
bursting out of an empty tomb
shouting surprise at all
your friends and relations
and celebrating with a bit of
fecundity shaped chocolate
sprinkled in technicolor vessels
through a fluorescent lawn
an elaborate game of hide and seek
disguised as the cost of
what love can afford
who among us has not known
the void of the world before
we arrived fresh as a lily
and what it took to appear
as if we had always been there
but if you look closely enough
the transformation leaves scars
Tag: Easter
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Easter Again
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Easter Haiku
After the risen
takes a rest the rest is not
so easy to find
Practicing our wow
faces takes more time than not
in direct sunlight
There is a first time
for everything but story
lives are measured by
How we wake one day
and know how body has changed
still unrecognized
Walking a new path
beside friends waiting for snacks
do a double take
Here I am—did you miss me?
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Haiku Vigil
Astonishment is
a trait of the night ending
before the darkness
What makes a flame rise
other than words spoken then
repeated again
We know emptiness
is not yet the end of this
being what we are
The night was meant to
turn morning into dancing
a circuit complete
Of course body is
a part of the earth—witness
blossoms yet to be
Joshua Keiter 