back by popular demand
sad state of affairs
it's just hard to tell who cares
trust their silverware
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where I go I am
from myself I'm on the lam
but there's no escape
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A fallen cracked egg
I've come here to beg for life
Hear my silent strife
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Is it me or just
a we - a nation so old
we can barely see?
posted by rabbi neil fleischmann @ 5:50 AM
4 Comments:
If someone would have come to me thirty years ago and told me than 30 years hence a student of mine would be known as NY's funniest rabbi, and that he would be a teacher and a stand-up comic, and a bit of a philosopher, and that he would have a blog site with lots of thought-provoking poems and beautiful Divrei Torah and all kinds of Torah questions...
I would have thought for a moment and said...
what's a blog?
Proud of you, my boy.
What IS a blog?
Thank you Mr. C.
My parents are overly on top over what I wear, they should be expensive,like everyone. They never stop to appreciate what happens beyond that layer of clothes. And all they are concerned about
is what the neighbor down the street will think. I like to think of G-d,-of his geese and of the things that make me happy, not just the clothes, not just the clothes.
I got in the mood
of writing a haiku poem
no thing is better
better than any
food or clothing or money
is being with words
words understand me
they fear not what others say
like the geese in the lakes
my parent can't love
me, for what I am and be
lest someone say "hey"
Men and women will
always say nasty comments
without thought at all
and my parents won't ever
love me for my songs of life.
maybe geese in lakes?
geese do not care if
other birds will like my dress
whom I will impress
(and at the same time
will not confuse me with those
endless tznius rules)
words and geese are mine
because I can love them both
maybe they'll love me.
Without meaning to, I created an approach I think - the free associative haiku chain.
These two struck me artistically and emotionally together:
better than any
food or clothing or money
is being with words
words understand me
they fear not what others say
like the geese in the lakes
But I appreciated the whole thing. Just as when I do this, when you did it some came out more straight forward and some more poetical. I liked the whole chain and the sentiment.
G-d beneath our clothes
He sees, beneath our skin too
In us He sees Him
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