Thursday, September 19, 2024

Long or short day,
Thank You either way

Days aren't short or long
Gifts from G-d can't be wrong

Wednesday, September 18, 2024

 Thoughts On Poetry

1. If you can write,
you can write a poem
2. A poem is
a collection of words
coming together and apart
via your hand, head, and heart
3. Your souls is
(naturally) poetic.
4. Forgetting nothing helps.
5. Maybe forgetting everything helps too.

Thursday, September 12, 2024

HAND WRITTEN OVER TWO NIGHTS


Processing my life
I am laying on my bed
Wanting to detox
That story about
the Xs on the foreheads
sits there on my screen
And the irony
is hot, I find it striking
how fitting it is
Our phones are the
wheat that makes us all crazy
this haiku, my X
Marking my forehead
my phone in the other room
I'm writing by hand
Write me a letter
send it through a blue mailbox
so we'll remember...
II
...I'm thinking again
about Rebbe Nachman's wheat
and the forehead marks
I think we've fallen
in a short number of years
hard, away from G-d
I write on paper
hiding from my phone, in bed
calling out to G-d
G-d bless us to read
to write each other and speak
heart to heart, off line
Oh my G-d, bless me
to work with you and be free
and learn how to see