The Unbiassed Media
Bombs rain on Gaza, the youth throw stones, the Israeli soldiers killed
or maim stone throwers, a dance of death.
What do the leading media say? Not very much,
the Gazans must be partly blamed; the victims are guilty
of the strength of being Palestinians defending their right.
In Hebron, the settlers are razing houses, killing goats and setting fire
to olive trees and daily is the death of those who get in their way.
The media might have a byline about it, that’s all.
If Israel is criticized, it unashamedly invokes the sacred Holocaust
and calls us antisemitic
Should a Jew speak up, he/her is called a self-hater
and be banned from entering the stolen land of Israel forever.
Categories:
hebron, absence, animal, anti bullying,
Form: Sonnet
When Bayt lahm guttured Bait lehem,
no bagels and baguettes are baked.
As hummus and labneh melting down,
prickly grapes grown in Golan Heights,
Awakened Elchanan terminated Goliath.
Raising Rachel tribes of nomadic life,
goes to a mysterious hypogeum.
The underground chamber,
forefather of Hebron and Nablus.
Categories:
hebron, hyperbole, tribute,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Happy birthday, Sister Dennise,
Read this simple quatrain of mine;
This poem is gentle like a breeze,
Bringing freshness to every line.
Topic: Birthday of Dennise G. Hebron (March 08)
Categories:
hebron, birthday,
Form: Quatrain
If every one of us, with a relationship burning
In heart and mind for Jesus, have been evangelizing
Why's Maoist China dominating The Globe despite Columbus ...
Why is it that the Temple Mount is out of Israel's hands
Arabs are all over the land, and the neighboring lands,
Jerusalem and Hebron after David's & Abraham's wars & success?
And where St. Paul began churches, the famed cnames of Smyrna, Ephesus,
Ancient Antioch where we first were named Christian: "Little Christ Jesuses,"
Are now Muslim Turkey's, Syrian ... as if Jesus & Paul never came?
Kingdom Territory have been lost in the Holy Land, in Tunisia, Libya ...
Can someone truly tell me why? After all our successes, books, media
No Temple in Jerusalem ... Hinduism has seduced EU and US of A?
It is as if He never came ... nor taught and healed men and women then
And Earth behaves as if Christ had no disciples, no Kingdom seed of Heaven
Categories:
hebron, allegory, allusion, america, angst,
Form: Didactic
The Day The Aardvark Died Christmas 2017
The day the aardvark died
they wept down London zoo
some danced in Jerusalem
cardinals Christians orthodox Jew
The day the aardvark died
I heard them wail down Regents Park
a city prayed for Meerkats
the zoo closed gates before dark
The day the aardvark died
A giant tortoise cried in her pen
then so did the children of Ramala
Palestine West Bank and Hebron
The day the aardvark died
lions slept soundly in their cage
the Saudi's dropped bombs in Yemen
we stuffed turkeys with onion and sage
Categories:
hebron, bereavement, happy birthday,
Form: Rhyme
David gat himself up and wives,
And did in transportation thrive.
That the philistines had governed,
Isreal,Hebron,and all urban.
Then he entreated God for his land,
And the Lord was entreated of him.
Thousands of souls paid homage to his hand,
As his spear wrought a bloody movie.
Then Abner flee beyond ridges,
And his foe he did cast aside like bridges.
Till a witty casual aged in wisdom,
Put aside Abner's thriving whoredom.
For Asahel had fallen before Abner,
Through Bithron's plain,Abner did traverse.
c.2017
Categories:
hebron, allusion,
Form: Sonnet
I say a prayer at a loved ones tomb
I leave a flower, for in my heart they bloom
To me they'll always be a treasure
Never to be forgotten, ever
But there is a tomb where treasures abound
A place where pyramids are found
King Tut's tomb, where treasures did bloom
Treasures that the departed did not assume
The patriarchs of the bible are laid to rest
In the city of Hebron in Palestine
Abraham, Isaac, Jacob were blessed
Their tomb is now a holy shrine
It is known as the Cave of Machpelah
There is a tomb where old bones lie
Unsung in life, but now at rest
The treasure here is hard to deny
They gave it all, the ultimate measure
They'll always be a national treasure
The Tomb of the unknown soldier
Categories:
hebron, history,
Form: Rhyme
As you go north, out of the city limits
the names of the communities reflect the landscape around them.
Mulberry Flats, Tar Hill, Mount Hebron.
And it is here that my family settled over two hundred years ago.
German and Irish immigrants trying to make their way in
an unforgiving land.
chris lampton
4-1-15
Categories:
hebron, appreciation, change, dedication,
Form: Prose
The Exodus across a barren land
Pharaoh has set my people free
He's turned all Israel over to me
We'll be guided by I AM'S hand
We've not made it far enough away
Pharaoh has sent his troops to kill
And they shall do his evil will
I sent a wall of fire to stay
I've raised my hand against the sea
God has given me the staff of power
This will finally be our finest hour
Pharaoh's troops will cease to be
I climbed Horeb to receive the Law
My brother Aaron built a calf
I think he forgot about the staff
When I returned I was in Awe
I threw the tablets to the ground
When I arrived the sins revealed
The golden calf their fates are sealed
when they hit an awful sound
For forty years did Israel roam
At one hundred and thirty I'm growing old
Another shall lead them so God has told
To settle Israel into their home
Thirty one kings did the new leader slay
Jericho,Hebron and Megiddo too
Makkedah, Lasharon this is only a few
This is mostly where they are today
Who are we?
Categories:
hebron, epic
Form: Enclosed Rhyme