Why So Sad? Poem by Terence George Craddock (Spectral Images and Images Of Light)

Why So Sad?

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Why so sad
when

last
I saw you?


Why so quite?

Why so Wintery?

Is not Summer
yet to come

and the fall

of glorious
Autumn?


Does not God
smile

when you smile
in righteous


and when
God smiles

does not
the universe shine?


Copyright © Terence George Craddock

POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
Written in August 2004.
Stanzas three to seven were written from the haunting memory of a haiku I learned as a teenager, the original quote being
"Why so wintery?
Summer's
Yet to come, and the fall of
Glorious autumn." Shogun
Does anyone know the original date this was written?
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