Summer Jewish Poems

Ever Thoughts 

I am blessed. 
How do I know? 
Because every day, 
is full of Light, 
and Hope, 
and Dreams... 

I do not concern myself...

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If you square two and take away from eight,
In the month of April that is my birth date!
Write month-date as lucky angels dictate, 
like a...

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We drink to Life. L'chaim. Summer smiles
In Leah's eyes, June sunlight gently glowing.
The glass waits on the earth, bowl, base, and stem 
Remembering. Then, shards...

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Your Shoes

Are the wrong size. 
I never liked how they looked, but I was silent.
You made me that way, for a long time.
Not forever.

All grown...

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Vanilla froth of the sea milk shakes 
Rising and falling with my jumps, in motion with the rest of the crowd 
All shimmering with sunscreen...

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

The apparent insanity of inmates
and prisoners
and addicts, conspiracy theorists and paranoids,
does not prove,
nor necessarily even suggest,
the keepers are not also...

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Well, my father was a farmer, just chickens and cows
When it came to raisin' 'em, he really knew how
To milk those bovines for all they...

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I remember summers past
My arms around pretty women 
Making love on the beach or in a car 
Summer brings romance in its wake 
The years...

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Genesis struggles and strains
sweeps and steers
stresses and sears
toward Exodus,
as birth precedes Great Transition,

as breathing in spring
pauses summer diastatic 
just in time to exhale toward productive...

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Two hawks aloft
crows anxious banding together
Carol Ott comes over to my house, likes the warm weather, November
a California Christmas and maybe species will change places...

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I like immigrants, immigration. Legal immigration,
Jane passionately corrects. Actually my goal is a borderless world.
That's a new idea to her.
Gathering the neighborhood like family.
The men...

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Take a break 
     from the information barrage
by observing Shabbat 
    Shabbat services give us 
 a glimpse...

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