.
will ya
come thuh
on
page
wist
me
we'll pagez
dust
wit'n ourn
us
roam
az nun
*In Aramaic, "nun" specifically
means "fish"
*wist; merriam-webster.com: *edvard ask'n thuh her to collaborate
archaic:get to know 'pon his slip thinks ')
*wit; merriam-webster: 1c; humor
poetic think
Categories:
aramaic, allusion, passion, poetry,
Form: Carpe Diem
IN AN ARAMAIC VOICE
a b b a
e l o i e l o i
r a b b o n i
m a r a n a t h a
Categories:
aramaic, christian, word play,
Form: Quatrain
Abba
Aramaic for a loving father.
A term of endearment.
God set the standard.
A father who is loving and kind.
A father who teaches.
A father who disciplines with love.
A father who is humble.
A father who lives with integrity.
A father who sacrifices for the good of the family.
A father who leads by example as well as word.
Not all of us have had good fathers
Selfishness pushed out love.
Love is the core.
We have the example of God.
Let us all, as men, try to truly love
And be a good father.
Categories:
aramaic, christian,
Form: Free verse
"Abracadabra Purple Doors"
Abracadabra
boo!
Coo coo ca choo
Candide Diderot. ‘24
Some think abracadabra comes from the Hebrew phrase “ebrah k'dabri,” and means “I create as I speak,'” - while others think it comes from “avra gavra,” an Aramaic phrase meaning “I will create man” — the words of God on the sixth day of creation.
“When God created Woman, he was working late on the sixth day. An Angel came by and asked, ‘Why spend so much time on her?’ The Lord answered, ‘Have you seen all the specifications I have to meet to shape her?’” “‘She must function in all kinds of situations."
Categories:
aramaic, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
For everyone who hates his brother murders a person, and you know that eternal life cannot abide in anyone who murders a person.
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
1John 3:15
A murderer biblically,
Sometimes a person can be a killer
in the eyes of God ignorantly.
As he "she "continue hating other people daily.
Telling some haters to stop hating can be daily songs
in the ears of thousands of world dancers
As the preachers don't discourage to speak loudly
in the groups, at the beaches , at flee markets,
in the churches and on the streets.
Some folks understand them , stop hating other folks
and allow godly love to shine their lives,
But others can reject their daily devotions
and continue living inhumanely.
A murderer biblically,
Hating means killing according to the scripture,
How many people does a hater kill daily?
( lots of people dying innocently.)
It is good time to repent and
stop hate in the World.
July 19/2023
Categories:
aramaic, encouraging, motivation, religious,
Form: Free verse
Some languages are fluently translatable
but only by how the mouth
utters and shapes them,
they are too musical to be not sung,
like Gaelic; it was my mother’s tongue
and her grandmother’s elder tongue.
Romani is acoustically spell-binding,
Grandfather was a gypsy
horses naturally understood his voice;
it’s an Indo-Aryan root language
like Yiddish, a colloquial melodia
in Ashkenazi/Aramaic.
My own genetically challenged branch
of a familial tree of tongues
is half-Jewish – the wrong half.
These lips follow only English,
a language with too many roots,
its tongues are all blended into
a raucous silence.
There are many multilingual wounds
and they all bleed like dark treacle
out of a hide-bound dictionary.
Categories:
aramaic, poetry,
Form: Free verse
After many years research I found my title was my maternal gran's birth surname Gleedah ( manna in aramaic)This acrostic was written as a celebration thereof .
re-post inspired by my contest 1002
M iracles of life
A bundant each day
N ew every morning
N ature..divine
A ppearing by grace
More@ Mt 6:11 & Ex 16:15
Categories:
aramaic, food, word play,
Form: Acrostic
When I translate:
ancient greek,
Aramaic,
Esperanto and
other languages
I'm just one
one further curious ...
When I translate:
the crackling of the fire,
the whistle of the wind,
or the voice of silence,
I'm an apprentice
of poetry ...!
Categories:
aramaic, allusion, analogy, appreciation, extended
Form: Free verse
When I translate:
ancient greek,
Aramaic,
Esperanto and
other languages
I'm just one
a rapacious curious ...
When I translate:
the crackling of the fire,
the whistle of the wind,
or the voice of silence,
I'm an apprentice
of poetry ...!
Categories:
aramaic, allusion, appreciation, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Sycamores certainly speak French, cypresses - ancient Greek, the Old Testament's olives are bilingual: they speak Hebrew and Aramaic. Birch is a Russian tree though growing in Canada. So small and frail (they wither abroad), already gone into a winter trance, she is silent but she is silent à la russe. That's how silent bears in dens are, that's how drunkards listen to the voice of the devils dissolved in their blood, that's how old believers pray, that's how a poet meditates on his faraway homeland and, finally, that's how silent my girlfriend was, accompanying me to the airport. What are we doing here, you and me, between fall and winter, at the crossroad of four Canadian corners?
a hush of partings
of pursed lips and lonely hearts…
we should go home birch
10.12.2019
December Or January Haibun Contest Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Caren Krutsinger
Categories:
aramaic, nature,
Form: Haibun
And for my next trick
Suicidal dive leaves
My friend wanting and waning
The Aramaic idol screeches
Madly amidst patrons
Committed to higher levels
And flavors of consciousness
And as silence groans quickly
Among those needing to exhale
I consider where the journey
May lead me next
When all I know is
Sometime is left to come.
(8/8/06)
Categories:
aramaic, adventure, crazy, humanity, journey,
Form: Free verse
the Word of God
injections of black ink from a foreign land
a Jewish miracle factory
three touches from God to become a saint
I had one and that was plenty
it was invisible like conception
and lasts thousands of hours
I leaf through the pages
sightless as a mole
I do not understand it
but I smell the gunpowder
Aramaic cows milk
turned into centuries old cheese
then my pensive eyes half close
under lashes that frequently
blink morse code to the angels
I feel calm and relieved
to be overlooked by the bloodthirsty ones
Categories:
aramaic, bible, religion, thanksgiving,
Form: Free verse
Let me explain in words of art.
Open the mind to a-maze-ing ideas.
Coloring books for lives.
Blank pages to fill in.
Conspiring or inspiring concoctions.
Stirring with a paintbrush
colors of bright and dull.
Puzzles that are riddles, me here
pieces collage of phobias
hiding beneath ink
physically and mentally.
Questioning,
without question marks!
Don't ask them, won't understand
hieroglyphs, speaking and writing,
in what must be Aramaic?
With tags on,
like bodies in a morgue,
labeled to your disliking or approval.
Drink embalming fluid.
Can't catch fire, to weak.
Maybe paint thinner?
More chemicals,
mixing colors in the brain,
color me a rainbow of skin,
to wrap around like a blanket
to suffocate with,
or hide in safety?
Can't figure it out?
Back to the table.
Breaking crayons, markers dry up,
spilling the water.
Pick a new coloring book.
So many on the shelves.
Which book is best for you?
A coloring book for the soul perhaps?
How do you color?
Categories:
aramaic, art,
Form: Rhyme
If very hard read,
take the log from your eye -
or perhaps it's the wrong creed
meriting such custard pie.
Language archaic?
Well so what if it scans
Neither Norse nor Aramaic,
I'm certain most understand.
A trifle obscure?
My due consternation!
Still … are you certain 'it's ... sure ...
not poor imagination?
Leave critical muck.
Produce own Odyssey
Rather than to be stuck
In morass of jealousy.
Categories:
aramaic, allusion, anger, encouraging, feelings,
Form: Carpe Diem
Talitha cumi...
in ascending order
she rises
above horizons
bright star she hides
from no one
umbra dissolving upon
her nightly entrance
unwavering in brilliant
and cogent self shining
Were I - inclined or perhaps
merely intoxicatedly disposed
to take up dancing
at the edge of some
drifting far and away
heaven - were I
it would be there
beneath
if not beside her light
her vespertine beauty exposed
among
night's celestial pastures
the gift she can hide
from no one
(March 31 2016)
Talitha is one of the common names for Iota Ursae Majoris, a yellow and purple star system in the constellation Ursa Major consisting of two binary stars orbiting around each other.~~ ( Talitha -Biblical Aramaic for "Little girl"-- cumi-"rise" or "get up")
Categories:
aramaic, child, sky, star,
Form: Free verse
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