Hay-Ku of the Day (Death of an Idea)

[Rich Note: Companion image may be viewed at rfhay333.gather.com.]

(The Grave Personified)

The Grave Personified (1805, Wikimedia Commons) A visual rendition of “Oh, grave where is thy victory, Oh death where is thy sting” (1 Col. 15:55) by my favorite English Mystic, William Blake, who was buried in a “dissenters cemetery"; Companion haiku: If “the Real can’t die and the unreal never lives” death is a shadow.

If “the Real can’t die
And the unreal never lives”
No One really dies.

If “the Real can’t die
And the unreal never lives”
Death loses its sting.