The Week Is Ferfallen
It's weird to be in school with no kids here - it seems ironic and kind of bizarre, school without students.
3:56 PM - Just got home. Stayed at work a while to help set up for open house. I worked on displaying trophies. Then on the way home I went shopping. Got some panko coated fish and other necessities - including three pairs of discount reading glasses.
I regret that I've fallen away from writing tanka.
After the still small voice
a noise
And after the noise,
a still small voice.
And after it, a noise.
And after it, a still small voice
And after the still small voice,
a noise.
Discard the rest.
writing means I'm here
will one day show i was here
longhand graffiti
much like the book known as life
written one word at a time
will one day show i was here
longhand graffiti
much like the book known as life
written one word at a time
I love poetry. I recently told someone I was into poetry and they said they were too. Then when I started citing poets and poems I like they clarified that they meant that they like it theory, liked it once, don't hate it. This happens pretty often.
I've been flipping through Amichai's Open Closed Open and was taken by this line: "Even solitary prayer takes two."
Here's a nice one by Amichai, discovered and published after he'd passed away:
a noise
And after the noise,
a still small voice.
And after it, a noise.
And after it, a still small voice
And after the still small voice,
a noise.
Discard the rest.
It's Shabbos in a few moments. May we all be blessed to be changed by Shabbos and to go on to live our week in the Shabbos way.
posted by rabbi neil fleischmann @ 4:01 PM
2 Comments:
Know what you mean about a school without kids--why does it exist even?!? Thanks for the Amichai poem--sounded very much like something you could have written. I'm grateful to you for getting me back "into" poetry--it had fallen by the wayside once I became a mother. I barely had time to read anything other than baby books! Now I have lots of time, and I truly enjoy following up on the many poets you often mention. RN,hope Open House went well--I'm sure it did!
Thanks for the feedback.
Schools have to exist at all times. It's good to remember that the point is to truly connect to the human beings who attend them.
I just read a nice thought about how people should always set up their base. It should be a place where people feel that they are cared about when they come in and that they are missed when they leave.
Wow. To be a compared to Amichai is high praise. (The last time I was compared to Amichai was when someone said, "You're no Amichai.") This one is short and I love it - it's the type I strive to create.
I'm so glad that I can be helpful with poetry leads. I'm a fan of the whole thing - reading, writing, living poetry. Let's see - off the top of my head, some favorites. Emily Dickinson is my one of the older poets, mostly I like the moderns: Billy Collins, Stephen Dunn, Tom Wayman, Hal Sirowitz ("Mother Said" and its follow up "My Therapist Said"),some of Jane Kenyon (Otherwise), some of Raymond Carver (Rain), Zelda is in a class by herself... Then there's Samuel Adelman - Z"L, Aaron Bulman - Z"L, David Ebner, and Yossi Huttler, four frum male poets of modern times.
Open House was good. It was nice to interact with prospective incoming students at the poetry and improv booth and to do hands on illustrations with them. A lot of effort went in to showing people the best our school has to offer. May we all be blessed to fulfil kol ma'ashecha yihiyu lesheim shamayim, and to give and receive just what we need.
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