{"id":3289,"date":"2014-07-09T21:23:12","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T04:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/?p=3289"},"modified":"2022-07-20T21:48:23","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T04:48:23","slug":"pinhas-haiku-iterations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2014\/07\/pinhas-haiku-iterations","title":{"rendered":"Pin\u1e25as Haiku Iterations"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 20px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<div>Branch becomes staff and<\/div>\n<div>staff becomes spear, this strange tree &#8212;<\/div>\n<div>so straight, so twisted<\/div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">This misshapen branch&#8230;<br \/>\ntaken from which tree, grandson?<br \/>\nIt knows One from two.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">Two skewered scream (as) ONE.<br \/>\nBranch of which tree, grandson, this<br \/>\nunflowering spear?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Haikus offered in commentary to Parashat Pin\u1e25as 2011-2014, originally for Avi Strausberg&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/inseventeen.wordpress.com\">Torah Haiku<\/a> project.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/shalom-with-broken-vav.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3295\" src=\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/shalom-with-broken-vav.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"118\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/shalom-with-broken-vav.jpg 196w, https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/shalom-with-broken-vav-150x90.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haikus offered in commentary to Parashat Pin\u1e25as 2011-2014, originally for Avi Strausberg&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/inseventeen.wordpress.com\">Torah Haiku<\/a> project. <span style=\"color:#777\"> . . . &rarr; Continue reading: <a href=\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2014\/07\/pinhas-haiku-iterations\">Pin\u1e25as Haiku Iterations<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mythology","category-poetry","odd"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pin\u1e25as Haiku Iterations &#8226; Aharon&#039;s Omphalos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2014\/07\/pinhas-haiku-iterations\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pin\u1e25as Haiku Iterations &#8226; Aharon&#039;s Omphalos\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Haikus offered in commentary to Parashat Pin\u1e25as 2011-2014, originally for Avi Strausberg&#039;s Torah Haiku project. . . . &rarr; Continue reading: Pin\u1e25as Haiku Iterations\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2014\/07\/pinhas-haiku-iterations\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Aharon&#039;s Omphalos\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/aharonium\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/aharonium\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-07-10T04:23:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-07-21T04:48:23+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/ace-of-wands-tarot-card.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1317\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Aharon N. 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