The Eye of Omicron

About this poem

This three-line haiku poem, “The Eye of Omicron,” is written as an omen, delivering a potent message. It plays on the metaphor of omicron, the 15th letter of the Greek alphabet, being geometrically eye-shaped, as an all-seeing divine eye. Etymologically, the word omicron is derived from the Greco-Phoenician word, ayin, with companion etymological roots in Biblical Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac, and Arabic; and which means both “eye” and “fountain,” the latter word serving symbolically as having the potential capabilities of over-flooding, as in a pandemic. The haiku poem employs the numbers 8.1.1 52 9, the original label used to identify the omicron variant. The potent omen of the poem says this: “Be ye ever vigilant. Protect the Planet Earth!” more »