Day 327 - Freedom

Just try to yell a little bit louder

I can almost hear your soul's glee

Just laugh a smidgen prouder

Feeling the true moment, you're free

Dance your heart out until the end

Of the beginnings we all find ourselves in

No greater message to send

Than the reign of love can begin

I can see it twinkling in your smiles

Its embrace made by your hands

Gone for this time are all the trials

Right this second the world understands

Your soul is soaring with every beat

In this moment you are complete

Day 280 - Bald of Pride

Speak of my wisdom as that of a sage

But then lock me inside this cage

To gawk at me like I am a fool

Incapable of my mastering my own rule

Of the skies that are my domain

Instead you drench me in the pain

And sting of having no freedom

Though the world should be my kingdom

Day 272 - This I Believe אַנִי מְאֲמִין

This I believe אַנִי מְאֲמִין

I stand for secrets unseen

Moments that fade to deepest gold

Tales, tugging at pens, to be told

From the heart of a holy place

Without regards of religion or race

Bonds that break such boundaries

Completing the unity in communities

Across the world and all around

The sweet, true, filling sound

Of songs that fly in peace

So that horror shall decrease

As צְדָקָה justice strongly thrives

Echoing הַתִקְוָה the hope of our lives

אָנֹכִי מְאֲמִינָה this I believe

Into our hearts joy we shall weave

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Author's Note:

The Hebrew found in this poem is placed beside its English equivalent, each time. However for our non-Hebrew speakers/readers I have a placed below direct translations and transliteration. (in transliteration i = ee)

Also note Hebrew is read from left to write, to accommodate this the poem is posted using a center margin. Both the male and female equivalents were used in Hebrew to state unity in the poem.

אַנִי - I (modern Hebrew) ani

אָנֹכִי - I (anceint Hebrew) anochi

מְאֲמִינָה - believe (female) m'a-minah

מְאֲמִין - believe (male) m'a-min

הַתִקְוָה - the hope (הַ proceeding a word means "the") ha-tikvah

צְדָקָה - charity, (from the core of the word justice) tz'dakah

Finally dedicated to Genesis and BIMA at Brandeis 2010 and especially Shimshon, for his Hebrew help.

~The Poet

Day 240 - Inner Reflection

Calmness soars around me here

Wisps of aura can be discovered flying

In this place where I exterminate fear

Past all the hills of endless crying

I gaze into the depths of my soul

Past shadowy fields and many a rainbow

Until I find a balance that makes me whole

And my breathing becomes soft and low

A thrum builds in my quiet breast

Peace in this physical insanity

Empowering my heart and feeling blessed

Trusting the spinning of my humanity

Strung as pearls on a perfect chain

In a spiraling galaxy of my being I gave in

To the platinum grasses and the glowing plain

Whispering how to be set free and begin

The levitation of all that I possess now

Above this cozy seat I know so well

I discover my body never need again bow

It has so many secrets it is happy to tell

In vibrant shades of black at my silent request

Through echoing cold white tunnels I will traverse

All to be welcomed to a loving flowing rest

As sweet as any in this floating universe

Day 166 - Patient Hope

I am the softest and slightest creature
That roams all the plains of existence
Long waiting and yet seen as mature
Soaked clean through the sea of life's rinse
Shaped by a hand firm and decided
I slowly inch through the blankness
Never feeling unfairly guided
I am begin to act ever more fearless
Now I swim in the veins of many
Who once would shun me far away
No wishing well to find a lucky penny
Instead hearts all have one thing to say
Leaving the negative happily unsaid
Life is better when hope is spread

Day 131 - Shoes of Wisdom

The swinging shoes they linger

Above the quiet street

Like mid-step messages

That never find their footing

We are too young to ask

The questions they can answer

How do children fly when we are grounded?

What are the workings of the human heart?

Such simplistic realities if we take away the mess

That accompanies our breath and life

For now the shoes dance and touch

Closer to the stars than you and I

Day 106 - The Search for Serenity

The Search for Serenity

A young woman went out and away

On through the woods on a quiet day

Never was there a path or trail here

She had only the touch of her feet to steer

Steer the adventure she was taking

With all the hopes that she was making

In her bosom her heart swelled

Passion and hope together would weld

Weld like silver into a iron cast

A steady decision from the past

To find what others call clarity

That sacred moment of serenity

Some said the stones knew it well

Others that the waters had secrets to tell

And so she wandered in-between them all

So deeply beckoned by their ancient call

That says whispers are answers too true

To simply blurt out to every one of you