Haiku: The Perils Of Greed...

"Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction."  Erich Fromm

Haiku: The Perils Of Greed... The Goose that laid the Golden eggs

Haiku: The Perils Of Greed...  The dog and the bone

Farmer killed the goose
Bird that laid the golden eggs
Such perils of greed... 

Greedy dog drops bone
To shadow box the unknown
Loss is his reward...

I referred back to stories of greed from Aesop's Tales. These are stories I read as a child and they terrified me. The underlying message I got was always that evil befalls greedy people. 

 
Today, the word is Greed

What is Carpe Diem?  Blog Owner, Kristjaan Panneman,  describes it as:  "a weblog on haiku. It's a new daily haiku meme where you can write a classical or non-classical haiku on a given prompt. Haiku is an ancient Japanese poetry form. A haiku has three short lines and describes a short moment (as short as the sound of a pebble thrown into water). Mostly a haiku counts 5-7-5 syllables and is sometimes called 'counted verse.'"