Spare Me the Laughter, Please
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Antisemitism is back in vogue
thanks to a world gone rogue
Some say it’s a fairly recent disease
spare me the laughter please
It’s been around ever since Patriarchal D...
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Categories:
haran, bible, hate, history, integrity,
Form: Couplet
Too Kind for His Own God
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God told Abraham, Go forth from your father’s house
Take no one else besides Sarah, your spouse
But Lot went with them, Abraham was too kind...
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Categories:
haran, bible, god, jewish, journey,
Form: Couplet
Brave your own battle, O Draupadi - 3
...Take to arms, who will come ye to save?
What hope from face-less faces ye have?
Never plead, nor for them ever rave,
From shameless what succour can ye crave?
Take to arms, none will come ye to s...
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Categories:
haran, women, world,
Form: Epigram
Watch in vain - 2
...Hard put as *****Sapiens to prove,
Far off left have we oh, home of love.
Lose virtue, watch in vain Sita’s woes,
Jatayu long dead, scarce can we move.
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Categories:
haran, history, women, world,
Form: Epigram
Here I am Send me Isaiah 6:8 Part two NIV
...Then I heard the voice of the LORD saying,"Whom shall I send? And who will
go for us?" And I said,"Here I am. Send me!" He said go and tell this people:
"'Be ever hearing, but never understanding; ...
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Categories:
haran, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose
I'M Sorry
...Magnets never lie,
Magnets never die.
As will our love,
You and I
I have finally arrived,
To remain behind.
This time it will never break apart,
Till the very last time.
[HARAN SARAVANA...
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Categories:
haran, 5th grade, 6th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Jacob's Ladder
...When, from Bersheeba, Jacob left,
He headed to Haran.
He found a place to rest at night
And settled there till dawn.
It lacked certain amenities:
The ground, his makeshift bed.
It...
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Categories:
haran, bible, dream,
Form: Ballad
Her Specialty, Spirituality
...Sarah, partner of Avraham
the strength behind Isaac
Her trademark, hospitality
her strength, spirituality
In Haran, on the way to Cana'an
scores of her visitors saw the light
There is O...
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Categories:
haran, bible, hero, strength,
Form: Narrative
From Many, One -- E Pluribus Unum
...Forced by angry Esau to leave home
Jacob had no choice, so he ran
To his mother's brother in Haran
The sun set quickly that afternoon
So Jacob set twelve stones by his head
And lay down to...
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Categories:
haran, bible, father son, together,
Form: Rhyme
Hagar the Horrible Blessing
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We sing of Hagar the Horrible, yet she is a brilliant blessing -
This late in April 2019; no not for April Fool's Day
I must submit (a poem, at least) - here the reason we play
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On a cer...
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Categories:
haran, africa, analogy, april, black
Form: Ballad
A Lesson In Faith
...All things work for good they say,
To those that love the Lord;
But it seems we only say such things,
When we can well afford,
To look upon another's cares,
And shake our heads in pity,
And hope and...
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Categories:
haran, faith, inspirational, may,
Form: Quatrain