Qoheleth Haiku 3:20-21

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²⁰All go to one place; all are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.

²¹Who knows whether the human spirit goes upward

and the spirit of animals goes downward to the earth?

 

Body and spirit

Animated life on earth

Same but different

 

Fate of the body

That it will return to dust

Causes great concern

 

Merged identity

Self as body and spirit

In the mind as one

 

The spirit is breath

Animating living things

The power of life

 

One cannot see breath

One cannot say where it goes

One only assumes

 

©2013, Qoheleth

 



Qoheleth Haiku 3:21

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²¹Who knows whether the human spirit goes upwards

and the spirit of animals goes downwards to the earth?

The puzzles of life

Remain unanswered questions

Open doors to faith

Only man fears death

All life fights for survival

We foresee the end

Take him at his word

The wisdom of Qoheleth

Did not know all answers

The spirit is breath

Wind of life in creation

The breath of breathing

Is there difference

Between man and animals

Both have breath of life

©2013, Qoheleth

Qoheleth Haiku 3:20



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²⁰ All go to one place;

all are from the dust,

and all turn to dust again.

A gloomy prospect

That our physical being

Is nothing but dust

A thrilling idea

Kinship with the universe

That we are stardust

Body elements

Came into their existence

Eons in the past

In God’s grand design

From billions of years ago

Creates what we are

A gloomy prospect

May take our thoughts to the grave

Or stir us to life

©2013, Qoheleth

Qoheleth Haiku 3:18

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¹⁸I said in my heart with regard to human beings

that God is testing them

to show that they are but animals.

 

Way before his time

Qoheleth saw connection

Animal-human

 

What makes us unique

From all other animals

We know that we know

 

A contradiction

We exist as animals

With the breath of God

 

God does not need proof

Of our animal nature

But we need to know

 

I know who I am

When I face reality

Through clouded vision

 

©2013, Qoheleth

 

Qoheleth Haiku: 3:19

http://www.schuylersmonsterblog.com/2012_12_01_archive.html

 

¹⁹For the fate of humans and the fate of animals is the same;

as one dies, so dies the other.

They all have the same breath,

and humans have no advantage over the animals;

for all is vanity.

 

It is realism

And not pessimism

It’s the way it is

 

Our nearest kin

Animal kingdom brothers

Share a common fate

 

Life common to all

The breath of life that we breathe

Then we all expire

 

Did Qoheleth see

The grave as the end of life

Or life after life

 

Why a moral life

If this life is all there is

It is the best life

 

Does pessimism

Lead one to ultimate despair

Or optimism

 

©2013, Qoheleth