Tag: Poem — 8 posts
10 poems about Israel and Palestine1
AI ‘art’ – The desert night is full of longing
“Whatever is hateful and distasteful to you, do not do to your fellow man. This is the entire Torah, the rest is commentary. Go learn. "
― Hillel the Elder, Talmud, Shabbath 31a (Judaism’s Golden Rule)
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Another morning
I awake and shake
My tired head
Warm the old
Cold coffee
That’s when the panic hits me
‘My God!, you lunatic!
What have you done?
Look what you wrote!
Do you remember what you said?
You imagined it all! ‘
A dreadful waking fever dream
Curse these amygdalan frenzies
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A fearful people
Can do such terrible things
They are so easily tempted
Frightened into
Wagering with Satan
And guaranteed
Damnation
The people of Canaan
(To appease
Great powers
Or avoid defeat)
Sacrificed
Their most innocent
Some say to Yahweh
A dreadful gift
No din of drums
Could ever drown
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Read by the author
They’ll try
To cut
The threads
That bind us
To freeze
The love that flows
Between us
So they can
Segregate or
Imprison us
They’ll try
To quell
Our ‘slave’ rebellion
They aim
To kill
Simple compassion
To make
Each heart
Cold tomb
And catacomb
Made ready
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These ’translations’ were made relying on a number of sources including AI translations and, in respect of ‘It Is Possible’, relying heavily on Robert Bly’s translation which he named ‘Pushing Through’. The author does not speak German, so interpretations might be a more accurate description.
It is possible I am trying to push through solid rock lying in
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poem for a wedding
Write me a poem about being together…
One wonders when to rhyme it with weather
Or whether to say
Weathering the storms altogether
And yet like relationships
The best lines of a poem
Are not made to be a perfect fit
In poetry & life we must aim
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Palpitating
Shiver of sea
Sparkling splinter of
Numinous ocean
Gifted personality
The Great Green
Divested of all terror
Its playfulness distilled to
Living livery of wave
I return new-born
With Dawn’s
Rose fingered bloom
To find you
Hoping you will
Humour me
(It is you who decides
whether we shall meet
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In memory of Gerard Manley Hopkins
Today I see the god
In everything
And everything to me
Proclaims and sings
And dances
Like the dragonflies
In spring
Gentle reminder
That the flame
Is not the fire
Love every host
And every ghost
That lives within