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
Sacred Vows
20 Apr 2019 Leave a comment
in Poetry Tags: decisions, discovery, faith, family, forgiveness, God, haiku, heart, hope, hurt, integrity, jewish, Judaism, life, loss, love, marriage, memories, poem, poet, poetry, prayer, relationships, self esteem, truth, unconditional love, vows
How to convince you
My love for you is so true?
Please hear my prayer.
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.
Week Four- The Year of my Heart
02 Oct 2016 Leave a comment
in Poetry, Uncategorized Tags: ache, change, death, grow, haiku, healing, heart, jewish, loss, love, poem, poet, poetry, rosh hashanah
Deep like creeks and wood
Is this aching in my heart,
As this book opens.
Turning, Turning…
12 Sep 2015 Leave a comment
in Poetry Tags: book of life, haiku, happiness, healing, high holidays, jew, jewish, life, love, new year, poem, poet, poetry, pray, prayer, remember, rosh hashanah, self
It smells of the past.
As we turn inward, recall,
The book is open.
Shekinah
18 Dec 2014 Leave a comment
in Poetry Tags: feminine, haiku, healing, home, jewish, Judaism, love, poem, poetry, scared, sexuality, woman
So many faces
I need my sanctuary
The place I call home
A Kosher Haiku (or) Ode to Bacon
27 Jul 2013 Leave a comment
Chef Leviticus,
“Faith Identity Dining!”
Pork! How you treif me!
“Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.”– Doug Larson
