New Style Haikus' by Dennis L. Siluk (Poet Laureate)

New Style Haikus’ by
Poet Laureate Dennis L. Siluk

UFO over Tel Aviv


U.F.O, over Tel Aviv (red hot dots, yellow lines, white round center…)

Last night, like a bright light, in a silent like mode, hanging, and haunting

Over the Mediterranean, above my head, hat—on the beach

Too far to reach, too close for anything else— “Must be a visitor

From out there… (Just where?)” I told my wife (if you think not, just think again)!”



No: 2770 (8-5-2010) *Last night refers to the 25 of July, 2010
New style Haikus by the author



Haikus for Qumran


de Qumran and the caves
—resides in the desert
in the Jordan Valley—


Here, the Dead Sea Scrolls
were found—bound
—a biblical treasure
discovered in ‘47…


There I stood in the afternoon sun
leaning on a grey fence
likened to a cobweb

I wanted to jump over the fence
(feeling like a two-legged kangaroo
rubbing one back leg)


Yep, it was the Essenes’ time
The ancient Jewish sect
Who had copied the old manuscripts…

Found in the desert cliffs


I sang
looking at the settlement
on the dry plateau, near the Dead Sea

and into the caves…

Yep, what a day!



Notes: The Qumran (Hebrew) the settlement, and the caves, located on the West Bank (Israel), the settlement was constructed about 150 BC, and dismantled about 68 AD, a Jewish sect called the Essenes, who traditionally wrote the manuscripts called the Dead Sea Scrolls. On my visit to Israel, I visited the museum that held the actual scrolls—saw them on display, and then to the Qumran, and its caves. The Scrolls consist of three parts: "Biblical" manuscripts (copies of texts from the Hebrew Bible); "Apocryphal" or "Pseudepigraphical" manuscripts (known documents from the Second Temple Period like Enoch, Jubilees, Tobit, Sirach, non-canonical psalms, etc., that were not ultimately canonized in the Hebrew Bible); and "Sectarian" manuscripts (previously unknown documents that speak to the rules and beliefs of a particular group or groups within greater Judaism) like the Community Rule, War Scroll, Pesher (Hebrew Pesher—which equals: “Commentary” on Habakkuk and the Rule of the Blessing). Between 1947 and 1956, 900-scrolls were found.

Note: 2767 (8-3-2010) Written in Lima, Peru; these Haikus are of course not traditional, more my style “The Siluk Haikus,” simple because the traditional are too confining, and more than not, un-rhyming.



The Sepulchre
((or, “The Tomb”) (Haikus))


The one that loves you
the one above you
the one above all others

I touched His Tomb

He was seized
and brought down gently
And the reign of evil cast away

An insult to the hunger
and avenger’s zeal
called the Devil…

A whirlwind inside of heaven
had taken place that day
then he rose from the grave…

I felt all this on His Tomb
The Nazarene, God personified
Jesus Christ

(his once breath and echo)

“Useless! Useless!”
—the heavy Tomb cried
as if it had a pulse, inside…

Standing there
I called the Tomb by name
Heard the echo fading:

Heard the Devil barking at heaven:

“You’ve ruin—everything!
everything!”



Note: The author, renowned for his expressive poetry, has also mastered the Japanese Haiku, and taken it out of its traditional form, to beyond its strictness to what he believes is the form’s essence. By keeping his eye on the object, he stretches out, by painting his scene, with impressions. He cuts, to create sounds and emphases within the Haiku.

Says the author: “One of my greatest experiences while in Jerusalem was visiting and touching the Tomb of Christ, in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, and I have tried to express this moment in the Haiku poem called ‘The Sepulcher’ (or, The Tomb).”

No: 2764 (7-30-2010) Written four days after returning from Israel, in Lima, Peru,


Meeting: Amir Or
(Haiku)

I’m on Holiday
I’m celebrating life
You are part of it…!


Written in Tel Aviv at the hotel ((12:15 p.m.)(7/25-2010)); No: 2755
((Amir Or, Israeli Poet ((Inspired by CJ, in the wee hours of the morning))



What Did I write for the Wailing Wall?
(Haiku)

What did I write for
The Wailing Wall? “Lord,
Thank you for my: Mother, brother, wife…”