Weekly Haiku: 03/26/2026

 Here is this week's haiku, composed by the Editor:

Siduri the sage –

In the Land of the Sunrise –

The world’s first Sibyl.

In this digital image created by the Editor, we see Siduri, the world's first Sibyl, tending her vineyards next to her fortified residence in the Land of the Rising Sun. Siduri is the wisewoman consulted by King Gilgamesh of Uruk during his quest for the secret of immortality, as detailed in the Gilgamesh Epic from ancient Mesopotamia. Siduri's advice to Gilgamesh is quoted almost verbatim in Ecclesiastes 9:7-9 (King James Version):

"Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works. Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment. Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the Sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labor which thou takest under the Sun."