haiku-usa

A blog devoted mainly to haiku and senryu and to thoughts about, and inspired by, haiku and senryu.

Haiku is to poetry as espresso is to coffee.

Thursday, October 18, 2012

Teresa of Avila (1515-1582) talks to God after her leg is broken when a cart overturns:

if this is how

You treat Your friends

no wonder You have

so few

Teresa was canonized in 1622. Her feast day is October 15.

Adelaide said...: I like your Teresa poems. You both are amusing.

Adelaide; 6:08 AM