senryu – voodoo doll = poupée vaudoo

senryu – voodoo doll = poupée vaudoo

voodoo doll
I fling in the fire–
devil snuffed out



poupée vaudoo
que je jette dans le feu –
diable éteint

Richard Vallance

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Sonnet of mine based on the 2 previous black haiku… Who the hell?

Who the hell?



Matthew 16:23
Get behind me, Satan! 


As madness burrows through the psyche’s realm,
it means to chew her up and spit her out.
I ask you, who the hell was at the helm?
And who was God to prove, “What’s that all about?” 

It rankles me too few will dare to ask
why some of us are sane and others not,
why some are not, while some are called to task,
while others see their faith is come to naught.

If faith in God were not enough, then what  
in hell would satisfy our lust for love,
and what in Heaven’s name has madness wrought
to place us altogether on the spot?

Since your concern was just an empty show, 
Don’t ask me why. You know I’ll never know.

Richard Vallance,


January 10, 2017

My Sonnet pursuant to the 2 haiku about sheep: Easy Prey

Easy Prey



Matthew 18:12

What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them
has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains
and go in search of the one that went astray?


Since Hell’s self resurrected on the mad,
the sane dare not consort with the insane,
unless they find themselves as ironclad
in mind as soul to shear across the grain
of equipoise and suffer the untold,
to cast themselves on Sinai’s desert rocks,
to wander off  and stray beyond the fold
where they’ll fall easy prey to Satan’s hawks.
But pause... and ask yourself if you’d submit
to humiliation, the same embraced
by martyrs such as they, or counterfeit,
and by the latter token be defaced.
      The wolf has left his lair, and shall attack
      the sane and the insane... and can’t turn back. 
      

Richard Vallance,


January 9, 2017

The Archangel Michael Defeating Satan by Guido Reni (1635) L’archange Michel et la défaite de Satan

The Archangel Michael Defeating Satan by Guido Reni (1635) L’archange Michel et la défaite de Satan

in Mycenaean Linear B – en  en linéaire B mycénienne: Click to ENLARGE = cliquer pour ÉLARGIR :