Tag: poem
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June 22, 2007 12:52 PM EDT --
Seeing the naked boys
tied to their beds
abandoned
by their brothers.
One image stood out:
The handsome blond American soldier
giving water to a thirsty naked orphan. . . .
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June 14, 2006 10:24 AM EDT --
You realize as you sit
under your private olive tree
next to your private fig tree
that you are doing just fine
just great by yourself.
You have had enough years
of people picking your fruit
birds . . .
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July 19, 2007 09:33 AM EDT --
words like
lover,
love in fact
i read and see but forget
what do they mean ?
I hear people say
my husband , my friend
and feel i can not say anything
that would mean something
all . . .
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June 17, 2006 02:47 AM EDT --
Having a French morning
seeking a croissant
and thinking of
"au bon pan" where we used to
gather in Harvard square,
i remember that
when i wake up
all so arrogant
like a rooster's . . .
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June 13, 2008 04:11 PM EDT --
For lack of words
the poets had written
to describe this evening
i must stop from sweeping the crumbs
beneath the table and leave the broom to fall
and write about departures . . .
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January 08, 2009 10:04 AM EST --
The old Europe is raising its unpretty head
once again
Yesterday my ten year old son
came home telling me
someone wrote on the bathroom door
at the shopping . . .
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June 23, 2006 10:15 AM EDT --
I don't have to justify
why i want to be alive
why my people have a history
why i matter too?
I don't have to apologize
for wanting to be a jew.
I don't have to explain
why it matters . . .
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July 04, 2007 05:16 AM EDT --
The trees are moving in the wind
but i am not
i am sitting very still
waiting for the world to move
then i get tired of nothing changing
always watching the same view
and wish the . . .
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November 15, 2007 12:46 AM EST --
In the shower
trying to drown out
the muffled cries
with the sound of
running water
( as if water can run
and as if it was possible
to . . .
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June 22, 2007 12:43 PM EDT --
"There is no escape in a time of plague.
We must choose to either love or hate God."
. . .
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December 10, 2007 03:04 AM EST --
"The forgiving state of mind is a magnetic power for attracting good. No good thing can be withheld from the forgiving state of mind"
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December 29, 2007 12:21 PM EST --
I stood when all the others stood
I sat when all the others sat
i listened to the sermon
i tried to take it all in
i complimented the hostess
of the event on her home made dress . . .
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January 05, 2008 04:20 AM EST --
"life and death by the power of the tongue"
words can hurt
creating a new world order
in which the one who attacks is attacked
words can be used to love
to express . . .
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June 08, 2006 10:26 PM EDT --
I used to think it would be great
to have both sides of the closet
to myself
but now it seems even though
i should have place enough for my clothes
it still feels empty somehow.
I could not . . .
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December 08, 2006 05:48 AM EST --
Remembering Audrey
on this fine fall day
when the sun is out
and the dog sleeps
content from walking amongst
the drying puddles of rain
the feet washed from the earth
that clings to them.
Audrey . . .
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June 29, 2007 04:20 AM EDT --
You asked me
whether i believed
in Jesus Christ?
and i answered you:
I feel sometimes i am Jesus Christ!
I do not believe that God
had one child he had singled out
He did not want Issac
to . . .
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August 13, 2007 02:42 AM EDT --
Magic yesterdays
the sun upon the water
and the ducks
receiving a flower from a child
he hides it behind his back
then hands it to me
with a smile
that makes the sun . . .
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December 14, 2007 07:47 AM EST --
Of the five stages of grief
Denial , anger, negotiaton,
depression and acceptance
the worse is the acceptance
knowing that from now on
it will . . .
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January 01, 2008 06:10 PM EST --
And why should i expect
an answer to all the questions
i have loved like Rainer Maria Rilke
had adviced the young poet
in his letters ?
After all
i have been removed . . .
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May 08, 2009 12:16 PM EDT --
It was too soon to come out
from my hiding place
it was too soon to come out
to the world
and see how it carried on
as if nothing has changed
i should have remained hidden
a season . . .
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