Today is the Special Day we've been waiting for. It's Christmas. And I am glad to be a part of it. It is a beautiful day and glorious for the Christ was born and we celebrate in style. It is the most perfect day in the year. Red, Green and Gold are the colors of the season. It has not snowed yet, but it's coming I'm told. Yes, this is my favorite time of the year, There's Love, Music and eating and all just perfect Joy. Thank you, Jesus for being born on this day. Thank you, Jesus for just being. Thank you, Lord for coming into our lives.
Hallelujah, Halleilujah
You are the only King we have.
Every year I pinch-hit on Christmas
for a Christian so devout
That if he had to work on the holiday
he’d just sit and pout
This year was no different from the rest
except he made a slight change
This Christian also became a full-fledged Jew
~ So, I had to cover for him on Chanukah too
Chanukah lights grow by one
each and every night
And yet, no disguising that
the holiday slips away
quick as a cat
Six lights, seven, eight!
The menorah’s looking great! …
Come Day Number Nine
it’s back to our same old fate ...
Way back when, the school of Shammai
started Chanukah with eight lights
each night subtracting one*
Easing us back into winter’s long night
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*Over 2,000 years ago, Shammai's yeshiva argued
with Hillel's over how to celebrate Chanukah. Hil-
lel's yeshiva won: One additional candle each night.
And that became the law right down to today... As
for me, I would have it the other way. Oh, well...
Gifts…OCD
Every time around Hanuka
I’m tagged with the same old moniker
Do I get the eight gifts
Or let her get miffed
With just one giant gift to astonish her?
On Bondi Beach a Chanukah celebration,
lights, fellowship, and joy.
Til two gunmen shot and killed over
a dozen people.
But a brave Muslim man who was
shot twice,
disarmed a shooter to prevent
more deaths.
Brotherhood shone on Bondi Beach. ~
Tonight we light the candles
When the holiday begins,
As the latkes fry in oil
And the dreidel quickly spins.
We’ll try to block out hatred,
Often aimed to harm or scare
As the world keeps moving onward,
In most cases, unaware.
It’s impossible to fathom
So much loathing and for what?
Yet we’ll watch the candles glowing
And be glad for what we’ve got.
O joyous Happy Hanukkah to my
wonderful Jewish friends,
love and friendship never ends.
Light the menorah, gather round,
the presence of God and His angels-
a beauteous sound!
Happy good Sunday
Seeking Blessings of a bundle one day, I planted my seed in the pass
As part ways from struggling tasks that spike me first to last , thow I had my setback and I had my laughs
I am looking forward to a better Half..
By Keith Kadell Relf
Trained dogs to rape
raped doctors in prisons
used human shields
snipers to kill children
bombed churches
taken woman and children
hostages of the streets
beating them
burning villages
bulldozing history
Zionists deserve
to burn in hell
is your choice
to burn with them
or join humanity
1948 the year a country was raised from the dead
120 an age you'd live to if your not dead
2068 The dead line for what is said
Oh Palestine!
your resilient people
hungry in rags still steadfast
steady prayers kept
Jews are aliens
we return to mother ship
relax wine and feast
And it will shower on the
Eastern Gate
A rain so hard
it wouldn't wait
The sound and actions
tornado's make
Moving earth with
instant haste
The flow of water
from up above
And wind so swift
to remove the cover of
That which men
would try to prevent
Would be a delay of time
actually sent
The Mount of Olives
also split
In the chain of event
of which it fit's
Maybe I'm guessing
predicting a time
For a Moses miracle
sent by the Divine
For some too soon
for other too late
Some say predictions
others say "We wait"
Scholars think they
have the keys
Telling time with
scripture reads
But the Sprit tells us
before its too late
The faithful listen
not given a date
The Prophets tell us
what they saw
To give a date
is against the law
When will open
the Eastern Gate?
The ultimate sign
the ultimate fate
Will it be wonderful
or a problem some face
inside of twenty takes
dirty filled frames
no resolution
to me the family
that a ugly
call me
cat purrs on approach
welcome spat
too literal
gotta reclamation
eye's cried so much relief
brushes is dusty clean
practice strokes at the gentleman's table
romanticism, adjatate, harpsichords
classified and credentialed
white ink's a tank thinking
'I remember", "he"
distract the trap, autumns born
waves of green mustard gas
country come plains, it's not your first mistake
chains on protest for poverty effort
2am production prints
beggars, dodgers, i aint your draft calling
pre screened and bread
my land by sea
indoors, know hoe
get to work, beach gone
pushing, yeah who's double checked
out of decks, on paper
iliterations an postulates
hot boxes of brake dust
crescent shaped credit creased
basic design, irish blazee, defend
de speak
(a quick, staccato tapping of imaginary typewriter keys)
december!
(d(arkness)).
(e(nding)).
(c(old)).
(e(ven so)).
(m(emory(christmas hanukkah kwanza))).
(b(efore(ten))).
(e(ach(a flicker))).
(r(estless(me))).
(a pause; a cigarette flicked into an unseen ashtray).
(born)this(month)me,
(a small(fear))a big(joy)a whispered(prayer),
(this)light(a(breath))).
(a final, almost whispered keystroke),
(it is perfect).
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