SHARP HAIKU

Reb Shlomo Carlebach 
was the only one ever
to say I looked "sharp"

"You gotta look sharp
gottaa have no illusions"
So says Joe Joe Jackson 

They mean it as smart
to me you're the other sharp
you can cut and pierce

Sudden and abrupt
a sharp turn by an old car:
how I perceive you

Sharpness and softness
one rests under the surface
the other on top

I find life to be
sharp like a double edged sword,
smooth in the center

Of myriad knives
the tongue is the sharpest one
and it is so soft

The truth is so sharp
she needs to get all dressed up
in colorful tales

Sharp clever remarks
Mistakenly get called jokes
and are laughed away

The pen beats the sword
they say, but forget to add-
the pen must be sharp

Roseanne Cash observes
G-d is in roses and thorns
in each moment's world

Prompted by Haiku Heights