Sunrise on the Aegean
byMy breath crests over the clouds blending sky and ocean above the Hellespont Thessaly to my back emerging consummate from Thrace Jerusalem before me…
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Skies of Fire
byLike thunder rumbling in the earth The land quaked and shivered Lying dormant for a time Until the dam broke And expelled the fire…
Towards the Mountains
byI call to you now I call from the straits, I’ve been sent here to tell you Your fortune awaits In the root and…
I Long for the Day
byI long for the day When hand and heart and tongue and all things between Align themselves to the tune That plays in the…
The Path to Salvation
byThe path to salvation Is paved with a thousand stones Carried by a thousand men Shaped by experience Who struggle to make the pieces…
The Ninth of Av
byI sit on a balcony in living Jerusalem, speaking to my father He explains the thought of the world and a return of light…
Mom, I’m Going In
byThat was fifteen years ago Seventeen and mad It was hot as hell On Erev Tisha b’Av he was determined Walked to Kissufim only…
Listen My Nation
byFrom שמונה קבצים א’ קס”ג (Eight Notebooks 1:163) of Rabbi Avraham Yitzḥak HaKohen Kook
Falling Fruit
byI smelted a silver platter With hands that dug through coal and flame Blistered, blackened, burned Peppered with sterling droplets of molten metal That…
If I Became London
byIf I became London, would You still love me? My towers reaching high The clock borne in my breast chiming midnight my bed made…
Union
byI live in the heavens The winds of the world carry me To far off, distant places In my ears they whisper messages Thoughts,…
Sunset
byThe sun dances a gentle lilac lending its glow to cashmere clouds the birds wind in lazy spirals and the world of this block…