Sometimes religious content is where one might least expect it. Hebrew phono-semantic matching of *The Red Wheelbarrow <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_Wheelbarrow>* by William Carlos Williams <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Carlos_Williams> reveals a meaningful combination of agnostic doubt and Christian affirmation.
so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens You can see my explication of this "free verse nonsense" poem both with https://www.dropbox.com/s/f0ce82ijabzbel8/Red_Wheelbarrow_pics.docx?dl=0 and without imagery https://www.dropbox.com/s/84f6r4k6cwdzcvt/Red%20Wheelbarrow.docx?dl=0 <https://www.dropbox.com/s/84f6r4k6cwdzcvt/Red%20Wheelbarrow.docx?dl=0> According to Wikipedia, Williams' mother was a Puerto Rican woman of French Basque <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Basque_Country> and Dutch Jewish <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_the_Netherlands> descent. Conversely, very religious content may have a secular aspect. In this regard, the Shema prayer is a 5-7-5 haiku in Hebrew. So written attestation of this poetic form occurred in Hebrew long before any preserved Japanese haiku.
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