Life Is Full of Sweet Spots

“Sometimes there’s truth in old clichés.

There can be no real peace

without justice.

And without resistance

there will be no justice.”

— Arundhati Roy

heads tucked under

eyes closed to world around

blocking light of change

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Resistance ~ Sleeping Mute Swans* photo by Jan Logozzo • “Resistance” Haiku** by Mary O’Connor

© 2020

* Mute Swans aren’t really mute, but their hoarse trumpet or bugle call doesn’t carry like those of other species; they also snort or hiss when disturbed.

** Haiku: a Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five, traditionally evoking images of the natural world