Breaking Rules
Haiku for getting sorted
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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
