Carpe Diem Haiku – The death

Today Carpe Diem tarot card is the Death, a card that’s dealt way to often. The grim reaper is of course intimately tied to life, but we humans are often helping death along.

The triumph of Death by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

The triumph of Death by Pieter Bruegel the Elder


the grim reaper
always come uninvited
swinging his scythe

swinging his scythe
with battlefields and plagues
harvest manifold

harvest manifold
brothers against brothers
the grim reaper

-> but

fulfilled quests
laying down to sleep
I welcome death



May 18, 2013

8 responses to “Carpe Diem Haiku – The death

  1. a great set, love that you finished it off with that final haiku. perhaps if we live a truly fulfilled life, then we’d learn to see death as a friend instead of a foe

  2. All three are wonderful. I personally like the last one. I wish for death in sleep. Any time is fine as long as peaceful. No reincarnation allowed. lol

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