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 309 - A Skater and His Board

My world rattles about on wheels

Scratched and worn from use

Home to my tired shoes and hard heels

Like I, it has taken much abuse

We roam the streets as a pair

In my skinny jeans I skid about

Every once in awhile they stop and stare

And sometimes they try and throw us out

But the rough gravel at my feet

Reminds me that I am rough, but complete

Day 307 - Tire Swing

Push me until I am very dizzy

Wind brushing my hair so frizzy

Into an ever crazier spiral

Reminding one of times tribal

When we as an entity beat our feet to a drum

And echoed the earth's own thundering hum

With our voices squealing laughter

In the domain of happily ever after

Day 302 - Naughty at the Seaside

Dedicated to my Daddy who read the book a million times over to me

Tell me the story again, she pleads

Sifting the sand between her toes

The one where they get caught up in the sea weeds

Nodding she can see that Daddy knows

So he puts on the funny face he saves

For only the best and most heroic tales

In which the adventurers hide in caves

Quickly pulling down their give-away sails

She walks on proudly sure she is the one

Who shall master the pirate's vast ship

A perfect day in the seaside sun

Water bright blue inviting a dip

Into tales of pirates who the wide world roam

Nothing else in the stories ever felt so like home

Day 294 - Azure Storm

Every pin point of power

Ripples into greatness one day

The leaves of the surrendering shower

Scattering off to their own lives to pray

Dreams cannot paint so pretty a picture

And still in your heart you truly miss her

The one who you shot each day blindly

Too bad fairy tales cannot all end kindly

Every link to the heavens we find here

We implant in our memories as treasure

Be it a misty morning, or afternoon so clear

The beauty we constantly try to measure

Dreams cannot paint so pretty a picture

And still in your heart you truly miss her

The one who you shot each day blindly

Too bad fairy tales cannot all end kindly

Blessed with wind and oncoming rain

The azure storm brews for each of us

It drenches both the crazy and the sane

The ongoing struggle in each of us

Day 273 - Democracy

Small slips of paper unite a nation

Trust in a system we lead

Forming under our creation

An ever growing, age old creed

We will change the way things are

If it takes our tears and sweat

Raising everything above par

A nation no one can regret

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 258 - Piano City Keys

I weep I cry

Searching for the inside

No more blue sky

Just one more way to be denied

Don't play me like I'm ivory trust

To pour your fingers across

I am not silver, only iron prone to rust

Any tune within I, is a loss

The black keys of this city can't save me

They only echo my anguished plea

Let us try to light up the sky

From this low and dark place

Perhaps we will do more than try

And astonish this city square into grace

From the simplicity of parking lots

We have the hope of our generation

Tied into a thousand digital knots

Without any hope of explanation

We play an unfamiliar melody

Across the photographed piano city key

Day 231 - Raining Innocence

Well truth only likes the rain

For the simple ripple effect

That the water can obtain

Creating everything once again, perfect

Laughter echoes differently here

In this essential time

Purifying opportunities are clear

As agelessness hits a prime

Ivory essences perch upon

Green blooming curlicues

A quiet message falling on

The human lying dues

Children see faeries in this haven

When water spills from many a cloud

The tinkling, as if on a shiny tin

Makes them each gleefully proud

To be a part of the storm puddles

Whilst innocence shades them calmly

Because the older world foolishly huddles

Though life here flows about psalm-ly

Day 227 - Journey of Quality

Well now you may see something else

Than what I am trying to say

Considering this picture is longer than

The time you have in a day

Or so it seems to walk and spin

As you let time on the wind, rush in

In a straight line on into complete infinity

We can walk from the end to the beginning

Or in reverse if you prefer, anything is possible

Once you have experienced winning or sinning

Answers are not something you desperately need

Not an opportunity for which you would wish to plead

Walk that journey in your own to shoes

Feeling the pain and calluses on your own feet

That is the splintering of the calm, smooth wood

Meaning you have a chance to be more complete

Completion is blue to blue, shade to shade, one to another

In a connection with the world you could not otherwise discover

Day 201 - Iscream [spelling is for big kids]

King Kone is the best place
To get on your soft serv silly face
And lick icy goodness to the extreme
In a million flavors of ice cream
What an ad we sound like here
But think just a moment back my dear
To the time when the ice cream truck song
Was the best in summer days so hot and long
You would run and cheer to get that fudgesicle
Or imagine answers from the dreamsicle

Because you needed melting goodness more and more
Each melting gooey lick was even better than before
So whether it was this place or another
That you would beg your older sister or brother
To run to when the day was hot and long
Nothing is better than an ice creamsicle song

Day 146 - We Are

They define who they think we are

Claiming we live in our own worlds

But here is the truth in who we are

We embrace more and bow less

We pull each other closer by far

Loving one another for who we are

They announce what we young ones think

That the world lives in glowing boxes

And is caged on glowing screens that shrink

Shrinking as time moves forward evermore

They do not understand that we are a link

Linking together in the time of a blink

Misunderstanding, they stop the stream

One that used to flow with knowledge

So that they can haughtily deem

All that we will be or so they think

But not matter how strong they seem

They cannot, will not, stop each dream

Dreams that tie nations together

In understanding and technology

Hopes that act as the ultimate tether

When our arms are too short to reach

Some tiny instant will one day last forever

That day we will stand strong, one, together

Day 142 - Children's Games

What do you see?

They say, they squeal

As we watch the wide expanse

How does it look?

How would it feel?

They wonder, watching lights dance

They form great wings

Some shout out, excited

You gaze harder, too grown up to see

The fans speed changes a shape

And they watch, delighted

Trying to discover what else it may be

Your old eyes catch a glint now

But on the faces of the children

Not in the shadows above

With their faces arched up

You miss how you were back then

Innocent, eyes glowing with love

Day 94 - Circle of Hope

Dedicated to Ravit, for instilling and igniting passion

Circle of Hope

Each stone has a story

A rushing, rhythmic, glowing glory

Of the mountain it used to be

Now washed into the great, wide sea

The circle that you see before you

Let it deeply implore you

To find the answer, in this time

When all anger seems the crime

We shall stand and support the young

For all their songs that are left unsung

Their growth is green and bright,

The truest source of the great light

That will teach peace to every nation

Bringing forth the greatest of elation.

For now we protect them in love

Thanking our lucky stars above

For sending us such wondrous hope

So that youth and joy may elope

Creating the world we all long for

Beginning from the stones' core

Day 87 - The Young Willow

The Young Willow

Dedicated to those who have spent their summers in the Willows.

There is a blessing upon this place

Destined for many an embrace

Of the young hopers and dreamers to come

They shall change the world and then some

With their words they shall spar

Never viewing with anger from afar

But rather taking on justice with pride

The leaders of the kind and noble side

They paint tapestries of peace

Until all fighting shall at last cease

They shall stand side by side hand in hand

To embrace the different and understand

For understanding leads to good things

Such as smiles and trampoline springs

In this future a sweet and precious sight

Holding out through the rain, beckoning light

Yes the young ones will one day be old

Under these willow branches tales will be told

Of how hope was planted and grew

In the hearts of both me and you

Day 60 - We're Alive

We're Alive

Don't you ever wonder when this road will end

As we stare into the infinite light

Doesn't the question come to mind, friend?

When we travel into the rushing night

Which spurns us on with an electric energy

All the moments that happened before

Everything that brought with it humanity

And all that is still waiting in store

It pulses down into our veins

Addressing the very core of our being

As we speed down these lanes

Mostly watching, hardly ever seeing

Keep it moving and we shall thrive

Declaring to all others "We're alive!"

Day 36 - Adventures of a Teddy Bear

Adventures of a Teddy Bear

Teddy wanted to learn to fly today

So we plotted long and hard in my room

Over tea and crumpets that were yummy I say

We talked about how he would zoom

Mr. Turtle helped me too just as we planned

But Ms. Snake says that Teddy won't understand

We put a flying scarf on his head

As I told him how much I love him

We practiced the height, jumping on the bed

While Monkey swung on his favorite limb

It was all going really well I think

So we went downstairs to get a drink

I was telling Molly our puppy how it was going

As I munched on goldfish and drank my juice

We were finally ready for the big showing

Which I stood up tall to introduce

So I said, "I always knew Teddy could soar."

He went up, up and then down, down onto the floor

Day 34 - Light of Legacy

I am dreams I am breath

I am life after your death

I am the glow and shine of visionary light

I hold the keys to revealing majestic sight

You speak wonders did you not know

I ponder every moment where I will go

Shall I follow the path that you laid for me?

Or bravely march on towards my own liberty?

Do no think that you can turn a cheek

I am the ear that you forever must seek

If you find ways into my extraordinary place

You could be the last one they see in my face

That is what you yearn for is it not?

To always remain and never be forgot

I speak the words that bring you great merit

It is my legacy that in death you inherit

I am the last of the hope

I am the voice calling out the trope

I am the one leaving what I wish to behind

Your answers are questions that I still long to find

Do not cut me short or pull away in fear

I carry the promises that you hold so dear

If you understand all that you have left for me

You will know that time and joy is our legacy

Day 33 - The End of the World as We Know It

Who is the vision?

What is the source?

What is the decision?

Who inspires the verse?

In a world where each moment enlightens..

What do you declare as the world brightens?

There are the dancers high up above

There the embracers so much in love

There is the dreamer gazing to the sky

And the one who will see eye to eye

Here is the message we share with all the rest

There the truth that we may pass the test

And finally the wisdom of all the sages

The truth we find throughout the ages

It weaves through every generation

It is the voice of an entire nation

But then again so are we

It is our lives that you now see