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she, the first woman,
has a name that means 'darkness';
lilith wears yin's face.
5.3.12

a senryu
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This Haiku - Senryu is very original. Lilith came firstly from the orient and became an occidental icon with time. The tentative to mix this figure with a japanese art form is audacious, and I see in this a tentative to discovering "l'éternel féminin" beyond some cultural particularism.

The technique is good, I don't linger with it because, as you can read, I'm not a native english language man.

The interpretations about the name of "Lilith" are legions, so it's difficult to post a critic about the name "darkness" - some says she was "Wind", etc. Some chinese legends speaks about Xiwangmu, "The Queen of the Occident", who shares with Lilith some attributions (number's symbols, sexual activity, mistress of women). I see in this haiku the same intuition. The figure of Yin seems to be appropriate as you write. One regret : why the female way seems always associate with "darkness" and "dark side" ? It's a question I ask myself since I was young.

Anyway, your haiku links things who seems dissociated, in that he is perfectly Japanese. Powerful and sober. Bravo!