Poetry

Replenish the Quieted Body

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the Heart dissolves Fire into Life

1) the First Cause

Ripples, thins existence

Be it be 
Your black swan

Surrenders its echo
for the inner sound
underground

Outcomes alive splatter
a life’s mattering

If it does—or was—yet
ill recalls the story G-dsent

Seconds

(2) 86400 (Day On)

Being a slow-sounding
troubadour

United by silence
a shorted deprivance
worth stirring alliance

This quest of matching 
a soul to the whole

Recovering reason to grow and outfall
a disciplined dancing to
chance it all

I met in voice
your landed rejoice

Songbird enters the haul

You carried purpose
to sacred refrain and
committed remittance
to encircle the same

Also

(3) Family Inclined

An unconscious settle
derives glory-grace

Supposed, composed,
these flurrieousnesses praise

manchild, emerge—

Remembers his faith, his 
pace, his 
graze

His shelter in place

(4) Family Divined

Commence and depart
for suns have shone

A vigoured, lustrous art
rethrones His poem

Your mother remakes you
Your father upheld

You further a vagary
sunstreams compelled

(5) Hearkenings

Righteous chagall chanter! 
Love direct

But lo unmapped
this gallop vanishes

Saunter-sing a
smiling linger

Banish your past 
(untoppler) 

The body foundling
in G-d’s ground
re-pulses
unknown
quivered
prayer

Awakenbreath

4 thoughts on “Replenish the Quieted Body”

  2. Good morning, Rabbi.
    I’m so pleased you’re continuing with your beautiful words of wisdom.

    Somehow, I can’t help feeling inadequate when I read your poetry.
    Just when I think I’m understanding, the next line throws me off.

    Why not offer a little explanation below each poem.
    I’m sure, most of your readers are so below your wonderful mind, that they need help, as I do.
    JR

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  3. I am not sure if, even there was a little explanation, we would each understand it in the same way. I know little about Jewish holidays. I do know they require boundaries and some discipline, and are seeped in covenantal love, thereby reducing the risk of duplicitousness. Hence, I trust the Rabbi’s poems, even though I may not understand them fully, but I can tell they are from someone who has long been thinking about creative love and the First Cause we all share. These poems are a pleasure to read.

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