Who Told You A Calf To Be?
On your left please find more of my Pesach camp, what some readers are calling "a beautiful setting."
Heard this sung this week and recalled it from a vague long world ago. 'Tis beautiful.
More from Richard Wright:
Amidst the flowers
A China clock is ticking
In the dead man's room.
No birds are flying;
The tree leaves are still as stone,
–An autumn evening.
Standing patiently,
The horse grants the snowflakes
A home on his back.
Crying and crying,
Melodious strings of geese
Passing a graveyard.
In the setting sun,
Each tree bud is clinging fast
To drying raindrops.
The crow flew so fast
That he left his lonely caw
Behind in the fields.
posted by rabbi neil fleischmann @ 11:41 PM
20 Comments:
Thank you for introducing me to Richard Wright's haiku. Who knew? They are stunning.
The scenes from your camp with their towering trees made this spring to mind:
"This is the forest primeval.
The murmuring pines and the hemlocks,
Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight,
Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic..."
...except not the "sad" part, really. :-)
Boy, Richard can sure write! Where have you found his haiku?
Thank you for Dona Dona-in a really good way it brought me back a few lifetimes ago-it's such a gorgeous, haunting song. What a blessing that we can choose to be who we wish, and fly with it.
Maayan
Rather than a full post I'm entering some quick early morning thoughts in here.
It's 7 AM.
Today two dear people that I knew and that were close to people close me will be buried. Baruch Dayan HaEmet.
I very much conect to the Wright poems. Stunning fits. Thanks Anne for the association. How do those great poets do it? The sad part fits, I think.
There are several sites that list Write's haiku and talk about him/them. Dona Dona struck me too Maayan. I think what you wrote is poetic and true:
What a blessing
that we can choose
to be who we wish,
and fly with it.
I think those wods are so important - kind of the point of life, easy or hard, or whatever else life may be - we have choices and must, I think, try to fly.
May G-d comfort you on your loss.
Some people close to me were buried in Springtime. I always feel that sadness around now. One yahrzeit after another.
Dona Dona (or Donna Donna?) -- my husband plays that on guitar and we sing it when he gets the guitar out. He says it is a Holocaust song; he plays it when he's thinking about his father. (One of the yahrzeits.)
Hand matzo, thick, hard
Big dry wad stuck in my craw
Water sends it down
Miriam Thanks. In my googling I saw some comment about it being about the Holocaust. If you see it written out and explained somewhere in that way in a clear way let me know (or Uri, if you're reading I always appreciate your knack and time in finding sources). I think it can be undestood many ways. I liked what Maayan keyed in on, responding maybe to my tiltle, taken from the song.
Kishke, you keep on writing. I feel blessed to have gotten you and others to enter the writing realm of haiku. Lately I've been using my haiku inclination to broaden it up a bit and to write poems that are shorter than a typical poem and longer than a typical haiku.
I'll take you at your word.
Silently yelling,
free hand waving,
while doing the mitzvah
of eating matzoh
at the seder,
at teenage boys
fighting around.
I end with my matzoh
Stuck over my breastbone.
Boy does it hurt!
Here's a Pesach question I thought of:
What requirement is almost unique to Pesach of a shemittah year?
rnf - so sorry for your loss!
kishke - do you mean that the wheat for the requirement of eating matzah needs to be from chutz la'aretz. or the same for the d'rabanans of marror or karpas?
A good Yom Tov to all!
hmmm...or maybe that the second cup of wine can't be from shmittah food because you will be dropping some (wasting) out? also, can you burn the shmittah chometz before? also, can you burn the afikomen the year after if that is your minhag?
rr: No and no. Much more simple, but much more difficult to call to mind.
kishke - shavuah tov! thanks for the new hint, but it doesn't help. i'm clueless! care to give the answer?
Biur and vidui maaser. Performed on Pesach of the fourth and seventh years in the shemittah cycle.
thanks, i wouln't have come up with that one on my own.
I asked this one to some major league talmidei chachamim. Not one got it. Not b/c they didn't know the halachah, but b/c it just doesn't occur to people. Even one fellow from EY who actually did biur on his perutah chamurah didn't get it either.
thanks for that! it's pretty humbling to know that you would have never have gotten the answer evev AFTER you've seen it.
When I told them the answer, it was, "Oh, of course." I thought of it b/c I happened to be learning the sugya right before Pesach.
Well it rang no bells for me because the only "sugya" that I ever learned was "mitzvot shehazman grama...nashim p'turot"...
There is actually some question as to whether women are patur from biur and vidui maaser.
interesting...
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