Short Judea Poems

Hi
Yea
Gharqad
It was grown
In Judean land
How thorny Lycium shawii?
Suited to withstand the beautiful Eden garden...

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Powerful winds over America 
The songs we once new 
   are carried away 
by these winds
   Remaining on the ground 
  we watch the songs as they fly away 
Our spirits need to reach upwards 
if we are to survive and grow 
In this fantasy called 
AMERICA...

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All earth wake from your slumber
The maker calls to you from above
There is no reason not to scream with pleasured cries
And celebrate His precious love

The lion of Judea is powerful
And His word is sharper than a doubled edged sword
Speak truth that He will know you
Proclaim to all that He is Lord...

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The question posed by a politician to Jesus after his arrest
It was Pontius Pilate Governor of Judea from A.D. 26-36.
To this day the answer still eludes politicians 

The politician and the diplomat
Two different tools used to make ugly truths palatable
And beautiful truths unrecognizable 

Politicians and diplomats never say No
Their Yes means maybe and their Maybe means No...

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the Semienite kings erected stelae
to the kingdom of the wrestling with God;
Ethiopian hinterlands ruled with the iron fist of Judea, 
the flag of Magen David swaying in Abyssinian winds.

Judit?battle-hungry commander of war,
panzer-woman of Scriptural Armageddon!

the queen casts her leather noose
and steers the forces of Beta Israel
into a battle of redemption and of honor
conducted in a strong and Hebraic iron tradition
not even a Holocaust could ever quell!...

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