My Mapless Manhunt(a Guide’s Guile in four seasons) 1) On the Stripling’s cause: Keeningbetween my parents was a fulcrum, ballast,a voice in equipoise Distrust runawaycommences emerging loneliness Only beauty rescueswhich questions anchored me 2) On G-dly Karen: Of her powerenthralling amour I envelope my own standalonebeauty not to cleave to (not to marry myself)or borrow … Continue reading
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Mangrows Aliving
Unbridled RachmanaBlindspotted métier after Traumlicht Strauss ++ Tonight you petition—call yourself home Cerebellum harpy andantebellum happy Number questions happenstance Slumber destinesanswerdance A peripatetic medicas your father works the phone We have a little sisteras green as driven riverin total — in the riverlapless and alone Shape her in mourning Paper her stormMantle her uppercrustbefore our earth … Continue reading
Chayei Sarah 5783
BS”D How confounding, the idea that G-d Created us in the Holy Image. It bamboozles any approach to grasping who we are. No shrink is going to give me an entryway … probably no rabbi either. What I can do is look for believers, observe righteous generosity in action, witness another’s tangible prayers open into … Continue reading
Bedeken thoughts
BS”D In Her Pupil You see yourself Pure You hear your yes You zest Your jestHer Divine Request As the Shabbos Guest Enters In His Pupil You Maybe-Baby Find Wholly There Your Entire City of love and liberty IntegritySumFrom these last lost rays of Sdom Breathe down slowly, deepen to holdG-d’s Eye innerselfEzer kenegdo centers thereHomes your air, enfleshes As sanctity and trust arrive,Refresh legends … Continue reading
No Routes (pre-stroke)
(Go here for audio) BS”D No Routes She met a loneliness inside himself,loaned and leaned beside himself,besides himself within this true no-roots truce He bunkered between himself, yes,those two trees, his distancebe your two legs that G-d Stands uponas He walks through His guarded garden “We didn’t know there was a way out”man says to … Continue reading
Yom huledet shel Rina
BS”D What do I knowwhen I know that I love you? A basket of sun anddelicious honey Unmasks a lovethat doesn’t need money Strangers beguiledfor we cannot be proved Happy is the childlove never removed I made a promise to the soul of our country in Jerusalem holdinglight, darkness and sundry You are my foundry and I … Continue reading
At Last
BS”D (for Bronia1 with pep and zest) I) What is poetry’s leitmotif when the still shifts want? To glory the ridges of microscoped soulimperilling the verse reverse from Hades to the Styx To howl the wilderness into sanctified breath aching the Colossus shaking enemy dwellings Yes To G-d-center kiss in the abyss of meaningand source the … Continue reading
Yomtov 5783
BS”D Wedding Song – Lecha Dodi For the Cause of This Surfeit Bliss Know You sing our knighted Life, delighted Wife Elusive Teshuva: A New Year of Love1 It occurs in the manner of innocence breathless, with time at once,lyrical for a thought confines to refine or returns in confident ease,breezes eternal to whirlwind worlds:a gift, a lift, each second … Continue reading
Parshat Balak
B’H Bolluxed or BeCalm(Balak v Bilaam) Hesitates no more Our Cemetery of older sorrow Be gone hear this armamentAnd in aquaint way weRehearse a verseOr a CurseAll-the-Well knowing We Are in The PresenceOf The CreatorTrembling Am Levadad Yishkonin Shangri-La solitude Blessing Am I alone here?Matzpune 1or Hu Haya Hu Hoveh Hu Yehiyeyihiyeh Comes a manTo be just like youAs a principleNeither … Continue reading
Straitened
Straitened, Homegrown לכבד אבי מורי רבי צורי וגואלי S’pose I scant shallow follow barely billowya shadowswellto carry your heartwarmth aloft and doffa well-begotten acheto share our wholly solo We linger in the unbegun sunseasonin picnic pose talking endless G-dlike carriers of greatness as a legacyand you, father, arise Be my troubadour Colour the … Continue reading
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