Bible Book Haiku: Esther Taken...Anyone for Job?
Category: Faith...
Posted Wednesday, May 12, 2004 at 09:11 PM [GMT-6]

Larry Stephey, founder of the "Bible Haikus" website, and its sister site, "Inspired Haikus," (more about both in a moment) has joined our little blog meme by submitting an entry for Esther:

Larry also provided some context for his verse:

According to the set-in-stone-hey-don't-blame-me-they're-the-rules rules of this meme, the next fortunate participant really needs to come up with something for the book of Job. And, the entire list of haikus to-date is found here.

Now, at the top of this post I mentioned a couple of other sites devoted to Bible-based haikus. These sites pre-date this current meme by years, but I was unaware of their existence when I proposed this little endeavor. Larry Stephey has been exceedingly gracious in not loosing hordes of lawyers on me for what has all the trappings of overt plagiarism. But, he obviously loves the idea of folks like you and me reading and thinking about the Bible, and then attempting to put our thoughts into haiku form, so he's encouraging (and even participating in!) this "independently parallel meme," as he referred to it when he first wrote to inform me of his sites. I likewise encourage you to visit his sites, where you can also submit verses for inclusion.