Monday, August 10, 2020

Breaking Rules

 

Breaking Rules

Haiku for getting sorted

.

He is dismissive

of ritual cleanliness

and its importance.


Consider your mouth:

What goes in does not defile,

rather, what comes out!


The Pharisees fume!

This teacher has no respect

for our traditions!


Forget traditions!

If they do not lead to life,

they are not from God.


Blind guides surround us;

servants of irrelevant

and failed religion.


The heart is the source

of evil acts; violence,

theft, abuse and greed.


Another story.

A Canaanite woman comes

pleading: Heal my girl.


Sorry, I can’t help.

Came for Israel’s lost sheep,

wasn’t sent for you.


But even the dogs

may eat of the scraps that fall

from the table’s edge.


Top answer! He said.

Great is your faith. It shall be

as you requested.


© Ken Rookes 2020

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