Short Kibbutz Poems

~ Tribute to Kibbutz
       Sde Eliyahu ~


45 years vanished
  my heart yet beats
for the tiny farming village
  my purest, unsullied love

the people mostly gone
  who helped me find myself
their still-life photos sit upright
  on tear-stained worn bookshelves...

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Visited Lavi 
   A religious kibbutz 
Where they had a nice hotel 
   I saw the cows they were raising 
And ate some tasty food
    That was on my ten day trip to Israel 
The Holy Land!
  Politics there is different 
       than the politics in the U.S.A. 
         Does this work seem like prose 
    Well it is meant to be a poem 
          so comment on it!...

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All is not well 
In this kibbutz
Distant thunder 
Suffers, pardons

Armour crumbles 
In this temple
Does the keeper's 
Soul surrender?

Aren't the roots here 
In this dark soil
Drinking like some 
Suckers should?

And we will stay 
In this dim light
Dragging echoes 
Somewhere else

Aiming blame 
In others' corners
Dowsing these flames 
So we can breathe

And the wonder 
In our slumber
Dregs our blood 
So sick, so sick...

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