Poems, prayers, and verse — original work in English and Hebrew.
The moon calls
Hanging heavy above amber city lights
Shadow over crescent
A stroke of Jerusalem stone
Shining warmly through the frigid air
We all point to the moon
Towers rising and reaching
up but never
Touching
We dance together
Earth shadow and moon light
We spin together
Across the stars
Your face turning
up, always
Changing
Your smile
Knowing
The change that comes
To those of us yet
unborn
May it be willed in Your imminent will
That the insights You give me become commitments
That the commitments become actions
That the actions become insights
For the glory of the great idea of You
In Your world
Forever and ever
Whenever you are sneezy
Thinking clearly’s not so easy
So the good Lord do we ask
For some help with the task
Amen
“Warmup”
Inhale
Reach down to the point of unity
Exhale
Reach up to the stars
Now talk to me of human history
Of human evolution in bars
Revolution beyond borders
Cut across all quarters
From Babylon to Zion
Beyond following orders
Divine call and respond
Build an ark and turn it on
Light up the dark and it’s gone
Now
Wait.
Come at me bro
I’m armed with two mirrors
One is simply glass
Offering you but a reflection
Of the face you make for this world
Captured in this moment and frame
Then I’ll hold up the other
A shining mirror of dark light
Showing you the truth
Of who you could really be
My one problem
Is that
I am really two
An enormously cunning animal bound tight by space and time
A tiny reflection of the infinite mind unbound by any thing
I’m sorry
Did I say
My problem
What I meant was
My gift
Hamas and my Daughter
can not
Coexist
because one of them
live
a full life
free and happy as a dove
loving
singing
dancing
wants to
dream
big dreams
enormous dreams
and make all of them
come true
with her own two hands
wants to play with
Friends
games in hebrew english arabic
a flower of Jerusalem
growing
deep roots in shared soil
deep laughs in shared breath
wants to be kind
just that
to live life being kind
kind to people on two legs
kind to people on four
kind to herself
knowing that is its own blessing
while the other one
wants her to die
a child,
guilty of the age old
Crime
of living while Jewish