Tags: poetry
Tags: poetry
That was epic
Posted Friday November 14, 2008, 7:44 am, Over one day old at Last public marks with tag web2.0
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This week's portion: sandals
Posted Tuesday July 8, 2008, 12:35 pm, Over one day old at Velveteen Rabbi
SANDALS (BALAK) I don't think I will ever read this parsha again without thinking of the donkey hee-hawing in trop, an angel who sounded like Louis Armstrong, Balaam channeling a creepy voice form the beyond, or Balak in sunglasses with cellphone attached to his ear!)
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This week's portion: red heifer
Posted Wednesday July 2, 2008, 12:04 pm, Over one day old at Velveteen Rabbi
This week's portion, Chukat, begins with instructions for sacrificing a red heifer and using its ashes -- which were tamei, "impure" -- to make the water of lustration, which made one tahor, "pure." I'll say this: Chukat never made me giggle until I saw that steakhouse sign.
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Poetic sustenance
Posted Monday June 30, 2008, 1:34 pm, Over one day old at Velveteen Rabbi
"The jar of meal will never be finished nor the dish of oil run short until the rains come on the face of the earth." "The jar of meal will never be finished nor the dish of oil run short until the rains come on the face of the earth."
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This week's portion: bloom
Posted Thursday June 26, 2008, 2:04 pm, Over one day old at Velveteen Rabbi
BLOOM (KORACH) Why should our bodies need concealment, like faces of the Holy Blessed One hidden from creation? Sometimes when we say this the earth swallows us whole like Persephone, eater of pomegranate seeds. Imagery from both of those stories made it into this week's poem.
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Going through
Posted Monday June 23, 2008, 12:03 pm, Over one day old at Velveteen Rabbi
Simcha Daniel taught me that the poem is called "Prospective Immigrants Please Note." I don't know what it's like to emigrate, but I know what it's like to make the conscious decision to dive in to something unknown and unknowable.
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This week's portion: larger than life
Posted Tuesday June 17, 2008, 1:55 pm, Over one day old at Velveteen Rabbi
Of course, this year I'm reading it during the days leading up to my own journey into the land, which changes how the portion resonates for me. As usual, if you can't see the audio player embedded in this post, or if you'd like a copy of the recorded poem, you can download life.mp3.
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A benediction for my travels
Posted Monday June 16, 2008, 12:03 pm, Over one day old at Velveteen Rabbi
The tension she describes is probably familiar to anyone who balances work and art, practical life and spiritual life. At the end of the post, she included the poem she wrote for me on my birthday this year, which is pretty stunning. The poem begins like this:
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This week's poem: Shine (B'ha-alot'kha)
Posted Wednesday June 11, 2008, 12:48 pm, Over one day old at Velveteen Rabbi
The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: Speak to Aaron and say to him, "When you mount the lamps, let the seven lamps give light at the front of the lampstand." -- Numbers 8:1-2
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Sestinas for everyone!
Posted Friday June 6, 2008, 1:03 pm, Over one day old at Velveteen Rabbi
I'm on a sestina roll! I posted another one to the Best American Poetry Blog. If you're remembering that I did something similar here a few years ago, you're right; just for kicks, here's a link to Sestina Using Six Words Blogpulse Chose For Me.
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