Best Shalom Poems
Sweet woman of Yahweh
sing to me
the Song of Songs
song of love
with kisses of wine.
I desire you
as Adam desired Eve
primordial affection
this knowledge I seek of you
my beloved one.
You are dark and beautiful
but grace alone is deceitful
beauty by itself ever so vain
you my love possess both
coupled with the fear of Yahweh
for you are deserved of praise.
I seek you
when dusk turns to night
Shabbat
the remnants of daylight
is in your eyes
leaving a kiss of the days memory.
Let us read from the books of Zohar
we are surrounded
by the Kabballat angels
where the Shabbat Queen
restores our love each week.
Oh my love
suspended are we
between the secular
and the sacred.
Almighty God has created
this wonderful world for us
in radiant shards and sparks of light
tonight we tend our souls.
Come let us embrace the Kaballah
I draw for you
a most wonderful mandala
for my darling
a dream is dreamed three times.
The evening is upon us
I see over your shoulder falling
your hair in serpent like ringlets
your black hair is twisted
to allure you to me
my new found lover
Shabbat Shalom....
Categories:
shalom, beautiful, devotion, love, religious,
Form:
Free verse
Come to me O lord that heals
Not only my body but my spirit yield
When I’m here in this place, I cry out to you Lord
My words insignificant but my heart one accord
You’ve shaped my life since I was eight
You’ve dealt with my questions and my debate
In my disobedience you showed me love
Patiently waiting for me to again look above
I know as I disappoint myself I do not disappoint You
For in You all knowing, all loving You knew
That I could never go far and I grew
As You waited
How long have You waited for your children to see
That it’s all built on love and they’ve been deceived
I cry out to You Jehovah to open our eyes
Allow the things that have hindered to be now despised
With good intentions we lost the truth
Afford us Jehovah, the journey to find all truth
For if God is the truth and the truth is God
Then wisdom will begin where the journey ends
Shalom is the kind of peace that results from being a whole person in right
relationship to God and to one's fellow man.
Categories:
shalom, faithgod, me, cry, god,
Form:
Couplet
Shalom
Date: Sat, Nov 7 2015 at 11:47 PM
All alone on this "Path"
But God with on my "Wrath"
Do the "Math"
This the Future of my "Past"
Blast from the "Past" the "Backlash"
This the Wrath of Israel and "Iran"
An "Baghdad" Pakistan an "Afghan"
"Syria" and "Libya" I'm the "Militia"
Bout to change the "Forecast"
"Packed" Bat "Bag" Full of "Drafts"
Of "Charts" and "Graphs"
For the "March" to "Pass"
A Slave from "Africa" "Captured" to Become a "Ambassador"
One of the Shamans "Factors"
Inside my mind is Visions in "Patterns"
This just a page out the "Chapter"
Speaking Justice amongst the "Attackers" amongst the "Massacres"
I'm created from Fossils of Ancient "Fragments" that was "Fractured"
A Scientific "Analysis" can't "Examined" a "Graphic" of this "Calculus"
This the Anger of "Ferguson"
In Trayvon Hoodie in a "Black" "Turban"
Or "Jihad" Shallot "Shalom" "Salaam"
"Shabbat" Praying like the "Salat" while my hands "Burning" Inside "Flaming" Raging "Sermons" See I'm a "Servant" But upon "Observance" you couldn't tell in "Person" But you can tell by my "Wordings" Under Blessings and "Curses"
I hear Blood crying to me from under the "Surface" "Thirsting" I'm certain I'm one of the "Worstest" with Wisdom in the "Churches"
Thats not "Circuiting"
That make these devils "Nervous" I'm standing on the stage behind the "Curtains"
Looking at the "Circus"
I'm "Determined" to "Nourishing" the Blind to "Furnishing"
Categories:
shalom, i am, leadership, spoken
Form:
Free verse
"Great Pleasures awaits those who follow the path of the Earthstar,
who adhere to the laws of nature, to the real self,
who abide in the house of the harmonic mindwave"
- the Lunar Buddha -
The wonders of being Jewish are highlighted by an awareness of the oceanic,
self, including a plethora of suigeneris miracles. Shabbatza. Guided by the
messianic ideal, the buddhist convert assumes an attitude characterized by
a personalized passion for simple truth blended with a fascination with the
sacred nature of existence. Thus cleansed of a now external confusion, the self
feels no need to evangelize or proslyetise. Hallelujiah.
As the celebration of Candlemass nears, the more intellectually inclined initiate
and plan for the upcoming festivities. Being Jewish and therefore intrinsically
drawn to the aesthetic, scientific insight and revelation form an avenue for
personal and interpersonal transfiguration. Yogacara. Darshana. Shakuna
Tantra.
The most religious perspective tells us of a divine energy or spark inherent in
all humans; of a natural propensity for discovery of underlying truth, for an
understanding of the Creator, the master builder of the cosmic scheme.
Battacharyya.
Just as Jewish holy water runs from the springs of Hadassa, all things may
flourishing their diversity and inequality. Outside the subjective circumference
of comprehension, the naysayers gather and murmur among themselves,
absorbed into doubt and contempt for that which is filled with virtue and
virtuosity, for that which feeds and refuels the depths of the higher self.
Bhavana.
Music tells us of an affinity with of the grace and power of the Celestial,
the Macrocosmic, punctuated by a fascination with the infinite and accompanied
by a sense of abiding gratitude; thereby energized by and canonized forever in
clusters of glimmering gematria and encomnia. Song, Starlight , Shibboleth.
Categories:
shalom, religion, perspective,
Form:
Free verse
I sneak around my enemy’s encampment
Like a fox surveying a coop
Upon my heart lies a heavy weight called revenge
Pressing ever the more upon my chest
Festered with boils of vindication
To burst forth and spew retaliation owed
My mind in embedded in that darkened hole
Which only unreasonable righteous light may shine
For my lacerated heart is scared for life
No suture may ever begin healing mine
Unto my enemy I ensue my right
The ten-fold pain must begin
Hatred mingled with bitter persimmons
I have forgotten the taste of sweet peace
Having hidden away any thoughts for forgiveness
My soul knows of no rest these horrid days
Enslave to my best desires for the darkness I wish to inflict
I have swept dirt under the rug far too long
Passive aggressive, I stand no more
I spring upon my enemy as toad to a fly
My moment of vengeance, the moment of truth
But I hesitate in mid-flight
I can not do this
This is not the right
For my road to Heaven must pass through my enemy
And I whom profess the Christ must become the peacemaker called child of God
Thus peace is not everything sweet and tender
Nor does pain cease to be remembered
For the loving of people is not viewed as a peaceable kingdom
Like a hunter and the hunted stayed apart
But to love my enemy and wish him well
The true peacemaker works towards all things good
To make the enemy a benefactor
Is the view Christ had from Calvary’s cross
Shalom, my enemy
Categories:
shalom, christian, peace, religious,
Form:
Free verse
Resonating glory
The Beautiful babbling brook
Welcomes springs mist
Categories:
shalom, nature
Form:
Haiku
Pesky Emotions
Enter My Rest, the Book of Hebrews said. Hosanna, I said.
I love peace and shalom; then, sometimes, I am so alone
Hours in praise and song ... felt the touch of the Spirit
Wished we might go on and on; but then, Should I not eat?
You know this: for no reason, out of season
A restlessness possesses one’s soul: nothing is wrong
But a gnawing sense of not being better, not loving all –
Most of all, not truly forgiving; wrinkled faces recalled
From tombstones laid down decades ago. Who moved?
Was it God? Perhaps it was my deceased father ...
(But he had been cremated; I flew to his country that February)
Was it my mother, my grandfathers, or my adorable grandmother?
So much love, so much hurt, so much wealth, and now poverty ....
© Anil Deo, 03272017
Categories:
shalom, absence, bereavement, conflict, emotions,
Form:
Free verse
Peace like a bright rainbow
Descends upon all lands
Music of unearthly beauty
is heard
Eyes shine brightly
while everyone feels joy
Think I'll say Shalom
to everyone I meet
I'll dance and take part
in the growing mystical joy!
Categories:
shalom, happiness
Form:
North Korea will not be bombed
Because it is not a muslim nation
Oh? This upsets you ... facts do
If you want world peace
Try being peaceful and open here
Not so self-centered, your poems must score 7
Even when they have not been spell-checked,
And you show your puny muscles by ganging up
In ethnic enclaves, cussing your Creator
On this Christian poetry site ...
So you want world peace?
Read the poems of Eileen Manassian,
not mine.
If we can't spare a minute to understand a writer here
Please spare me the colonial mind making pretense at poetry
Categories:
shalom, anti bullying,
Form:
Free verse
I
I am good seed, by Grace
Seed of Abraham
The new testament says
One seed, many fruit in the nations (ethnoi)
But is my fruit good
By worldly terms, Yes
By biblical standards, No
- And does it hurt
Sometines, for no reason, I awake
Sleepless ... Until my wife awakes, too -
Pulls me closer
Then tells me later:
I listen to your breathing ...
As you go back to sleep and shalom
II
He is Jehovah Shalom
He loved Jacob, but ESAU differently -
As with Isaac and Ishmael -
Yet He blessed both, materially,
But Isaac became a descriptor of Yah
So, if I feel like Ishmael, Esau, Rahab ...
The God of Abraham still made me
And makes me anew
He never made nothing but masterpieces.
Like Hagar
Who sometimes we forget
Encountered God twice
Yahwah El Roi (Genesis 21)
And "The God who hears me"
NOTE:
Hagar encountered God in Genesis 21, but God heard Ishmael, when Hagar ran out of water, when sentcaway by angry Sarah. Abraham was reluctant to indulge Sarah & lose Ishmael, his son. Once before he quickly obeyed when Sarah put out a pregnant Hagar; God sent her back!!. Here, God assured Abraham Ishmael will become a great nation (too). In the desert of Paran, at a (political) place called Beersheba, pain became a vehicle for Revelation as "God who hears" is evident in the name & saving of Ishmael. Hagar met Yahwah El Roi in an earlier chapter, but God opened her eyes to see the well at Beersheba, when all hope was lost for her son! Shalom, shalom! ( I loved writing my sermons on Hagar in Maryland & Virginia, 2018-2019)
Categories:
shalom, abuse, bible, character, discrimination,
Form:
Free verse
Know
oneself,
love others-
being right with
God
Categories:
shalom, faith, health, life,
Form:
Epigram
I
Without pure hands, heart, I lift Creation
Yet to be blessed by you and The Son
II
Poets dig deeper, shun easier, rhyme & reason
We ingest atoms from ancestors, Star Children
Categories:
shalom, bible, education, jesus, religious,
Form:
Epigram
All day long, from 7:15 am today, needs come
To my gate, with either "pastor " or "vaderrr"
Justin & John T needed breakfast before work
They did not go directly, to fellow churchgoer
I found some biscuits (10 ordinary ones) apples
Then Siya came for oil, Siyabulela that is,
Burns on both elbows. I risked it all
A week ago, they were raw wounds
I applied coconut oil, when gloves were gone
He came to thank me (but lazy to wait in line
At the community clinic). Lines form at 5am
3 hours before a few nurses come (no doc)
I added some elbow help - but with gloves!
Before I could rest with tea and poetry
Zihle ( Zeez Sleh) was yelling at mom, others
She lives in the Xhosa location, visits grandma
When her sons are in school (non weekends)
I felt for her, calmed her (home was left unclean)
She was throwing stuff out, yelling & cleaning
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We are blessed in these "township locations"
Surrounded by hills, Amatola mountains
Polluted & unappreciated, but I looked up
We do not look up enough. Earth focused we!
The hills remind me of the psalmist's prayer
I look to the hills, where my help come from
I look to the hills where my rest comes from
I look to the hills, green hills, God's hills
And remember shalom, wholesomeness amen
Categories:
shalom, beautiful, bible, emotions, identity,
Form:
Bio
Categories:
shalom, absence, betrayal, bible,
Form:
Blank verse
Thinking about you this day
My heart leaps in excitement
My joy knows no bounds
Because I remember my heart throb
The joy that your memory brings
Makes my heart to merry
My face to brighten
And my strength to be energized
I really know that I love you
I really know that I care about you
I know that we are made for each other
Only when we continually hold on
Categories:
shalom, hope, imagination, love, heart,
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