Did you know their names?
Or are we nothing but goats
Meant to bear your rage?
Six Months Later…
27 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in Poetry Tags: anger, betrayal, chabad Poway, death, decisions, epidemic, faith, fear, God, grief, haiku, hate, heal, healing, hurt, integrity, jewish, Jewish people, Judaism, life, loss, love, mass shootings, pain, peace, Pittsburgh shooting, poem, poet, poetry, pray, prayer, remember, stop hate, strength, trauma, tree of life synagogue, truth
Ambivalent Heart
26 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in Poetry Tags: ambivalent, anger, betrayal, choices, decisions, forgive, forgiveness, grief, haiku, heal, healing, heart, hope, hurt, integrity, learning, lies, love, man, missing, pain, poem, poet, poetry, relationships, time, trust, truth, unconditional love, woman, women
Still feeling angry.
Still feeling hurt and betrayed.
But damn! I miss you.
My Box
23 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in Poetry Tags: anger, attraction, box, change, choices, decisions, discovery, faith, fear, Freedom, haiku, happiness, heal, healing, heart, hope, integrity, life, live, love, man, me, Pandora, Pandora’s box, poem, poet, poetry, relationships, self discovery, self esteem, self worth, sex, sexuality, soul, strength, trust, truth, unconditional love, woman, women
Just like Pandora,
Opening my box won’t kill you.
Years should’ve proved that.
Worth the Work
20 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in Poetry Tags: change, choices, decisions, family, forgiveness, friend, grief, haiku, happiness, heal, heart, home, hope, hurt, life, live, loss, love, memories, missing, past, peace, Pixar, poem, poet, poetry, prayer, relationships, remember, road trips, strength, time, truth, unconditional love, up, us
When I remember
I think Pixar and road trips
The things that made Us.
Of Love and Loss
19 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in Poetry Tags: breakup, change, death, decisions, dying, end, endings, forgiveness, goodbye, grief, grieving, haiku, heal, heart, hurt, letting go, loss, love, memories, missing, poem, poet, poetry, relationships
This feels like a death
Yet each of us is alive.
The grief of the heart.
A Merry Masquerade
20 Dec 2016 Leave a comment
in Poetry, Uncategorized Tags: broken, fake, haiku, heal, hurt, mask, poem, poet, poetry, survive, wicked
They say I survived
The wicked you left in me.
Ah, masks are mighty.
Looking Glass
17 Nov 2016 Leave a comment
in Poetry, Uncategorized Tags: forgive, haiku, heal, light, love, mirror, poem, poet, poetry
You avert your eyes
Thinking my gaze will freeze you?
Or my light might heal?
As the Book Closes
11 Oct 2016 Leave a comment
in Poetry, Uncategorized Tags: atone, forgive, haiku, heal, jewish, kol nidre, love, poem, poet, poetry, yom kippur
Atonement comes fast
Let forgiveness come easy
As the book closes.
Curative Tongue
07 Sep 2016 Leave a comment
in Poetry, Uncategorized Tags: haiku, heal, letters, love, poem, poet, poetry, sonnets, speech, stimulation, thanks, words
What’s this I have here?
Prose drenched in stimulation?
Speak on, Sonnetist!
