Your Say
...Are you one who bemourns the downward spiral of society?
Are you one who in frustration has bowed out of politics?
Have you concluded that your contribution is miniscule?
Dennis Ingasall and his...
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Categories:
baruch, god, hope, rose,
Form: Verse
Electricity
...Dear Electricity.
Could you please allow me to call you Electra?
I feel it gives you more respect with a little extra.
Electra, you have been most needful and useful in my life,
but honestly, y...
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Categories:
baruch, power,
Form: Personification
Purim Serum
...Purim Serum
Reverse the decree, costume quorum,
Dour outlooks, ingrates can wait,
To “V’Al HaNissim” respond “Amen!”
‘Til Shichur or REM inebriate,
Confusing “Baruch Mordechai & Arur Haman”,
Ch...
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Categories:
baruch, blessing, friendship, fun, giving,
Form: Rhyme
First Night of Chanukah Blessings
...Baruch atah, Adonai
Eloheinu, Melech haolam,
asher kid’shanu b’mitzvotav
v’tsivanu l’hadlik ner
shel Hanukkah.
Praised are You, Lord
our God, Ruler of the universe,
who made us holy th...
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Categories:
baruch, chanukah, hope, inspirational love,
Form: Free verse
The Five-Fold You
...Like many of us, thriving to make something of ourselves, I dreamed a bit of stardom coupled with visions of grandeur.
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Categories:
baruch, christian, god,
Form: Couplet
The Paraprophet's Mess
..."Your oracles depressed
I'm finding rest hard-pressed
Why won't the Lord address
Why I feel so hopeless?
Sorrows and sufferings,
Anguish and loud groanings,
And more to undergo -
Babylon...
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Categories:
baruch, bible, depression, endurance, faith,
Form: Rhyme
Gone - Vanished
...When I was young, my father wrote poems, lovely poems, in Yiddish.
In one poem, he called me, his only son, his 'kadish'l, the one who would recite the Kaddish, the Prayer for the Deceased, for him ...
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Categories:
baruch, death, father, grief, universe,
Form: Free verse
Rewards
...The sun will not always highlight the beauty of my life. Nor will I always realize my hopes, dreams, and plans. ...
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Categories:
baruch, beauty, bible, blessing, future,
Form: Free verse
On Being a Published Poet
...The world is full of poets
Even those who don't write are poetry in their own way
Poetry is the stuff of life itself
The world of verse is continually growing
As more people put pen
to pa...
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Categories:
baruch, poetry, poets,
Form: Blank verse
My Beloved Netherlands
...On the skeleton of a sleeping goddess is my beloved Netherlands,
Waters in her branches are curling my roots as a Dutchman
And her gigantic heart seemed to born the beauties you may choose and take...
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Categories:
baruch, identity,
Form: Free verse
Baruch Aish the Blessed Fire
...God is clean with consuming fire As gold pours off dross purifies Decision's valley now the hour when...
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Categories:
baruch, depression, faith, fear, fire,
Form: Lyric