Carpe Diem today is about tribulation. This is my interpretation, maybe slightly grim, and much more senryu series than hauiku,
A suffering nude by Amedeo Modigliani
waves of pain
from the loneliness
tribulation?
soaring heat
as soul transforms to ash
tribulation?
aching chills
in exposed adultery
tribulation?
death a solace
after tribulation
endless sleep
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July 11, 2013
Björn Rudbergs writings 
that is a really sincere take on today’s prompt.. quite chilling. great work!
it was with the help of the picture that guided me… I need pictures most often,,,
oh yes pictures play quite an important role while writing haiku.. well, I guess writing any form of poetry or free verse.. because you have to get a feeling within.. it is either an actual experience or through a visual one which inculcates in us a sense of understanding something.. anything and then we write.
So many views of sadness and pain! Sometimes death is a blessing!
Wow powerful photo and powerful haiku ~ ‘cut’s right to the point’!
it is grim
but real and
very honest
JzB
I really like the depiction of tribulation but wonder if you have to use the word since your descriptions tell us so nicely–as they say “show don’t tell”.
It was a little bit non-haiku.. but I wanted the effect both as haiku and as stanzas in a complete poem. The repetition of tribulation as a question is summed up in the last haiku (stanza).. It is perhaps not haiku, but I hope it’s poetry.
It’s like you reached inside my head except the word adultery would be a child related word. Searing, painful…definitely tribulation. Touched my soul.
Your words echoed what the photo doesn’t say. Well written Bjorn.
WoW…excellent take on the prompt…and the inspiration of the photo.
Wonderful word choices developing the mood and emotions.
Peace
Siggi
Very raw and powerful.
Uuf. Really well done.
there is much pain your words. Beautifully done, as always 🙂
Extraordinary take on tribulation Bjorn, very strong and on the other hand such a soft touch.
Thank you.. 🙂 I love the word, despite it’s meaning.
The woman in the painting looks like someone from one of Hitler’s death camps, which, of course, takes me right to the tribulation of the Holocaust.
5 a.m. Tribulation
Painting is older than holocaust (around 1909)… but I agree.
Your first haiku is tribulation. The being damned. And one may ask if we live in a time of tribulation. By prevention pills the nature is regulated. By the watch the culture is regulated. And by psychology the spirit. Never before it has been worse.
Your second haiku is hell. The fire is the conscience.
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Tribulation? Do we really know what it is?
Tribulation of an Old Woman
I did perceive it as a whole. Insightful.