Short Sinai Poems

The News was trumpeted from atop Mount Sinai
A Sabbath day of renewal, given to all humanity
Thereon to rest, to refresh -- to recapture Eternity...

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Lightning heard
  Thunder seen
Moses standing 
  In between --
 
Ram's horns blaring
  The cosmos staring  -- 

G-d's stlll small voice
  with Israel sharing...

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God appeared at Sinai
  within a thick cloud
Although He spoke
  quite clear and loud

A conundrum sure
  this is to some
Yet if He be invisible ~
  appearances are risible...

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Trumpets blaring, lightning flashing
Mt. Sinai smoking, thunder crashing

   Moses may have reached the highest of heights
   Yet it looks like God rigged up the first strobe light...

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Man does not live by bread alone
   The Old and New Testaments maintain**
Yet three days after leaving Mt. Sinai
   For lack of water, Israel complained




**Deuteronomy 8:3; Matthew 4:4...

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My Everest, my Matterhorn, my Sinai
Towers in the distance above the land
Snowy crown soft white against the sky
How gracefully she reaches out her hand
And touches me, and I could nearly cry 
So awe-inspired that I cannot bear
To turn away and finally say goodbye
And yet I know that she is always there....

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Heard the news today 
     about Mr. Havens 
He left this mortal coil yesterday
    I remember his "Minstrel From Gault"well
I thrilled when I heard "Man came down from "Sinai Mountain" 
He was a terrific guitarist 
     with his own unique approach to the instrument 
"Gone from the Earth to a Better Land I Know"...

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The Israelites fleeing Mt. Sinai
    like children at the final school bell

  When the Lord quickened their pace to Israel
    'We can't run fast enough,' they yelled


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  See Numbers, Chapter 10, verses 35-36. Then
  view Chapter 11, verses 1-3, and commentary
  thereto....

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Beloved of Ba’alat, 
Consort of Ba’al,
Mistress of the Sinai mines 
Whose turquoise eyes
Unlocked the hieroglyphs 
Lining the promenade
Leading to the Temple of Hathor, 
Inventing first an alphabet, 
Then a song to sing in Canaan, 
Prompting gossip and rumors 
From Memphis to Kush, 
Echoing famously now 
In Serabit el-Khadim....

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This is a love poem
And now flowers will die in it
I am the only gift
This is a love poem
And no stars will shine in it
For you are my only light
This is a love poem
And the birds are silent in it
For it does not welcome tears
This is a love poem
And God alone is in it
For when you are merged with me
Sinai quivers and climax in orgasms of fire....

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The burning bush on Mt. Sinai 
A sight to see before I die 
So, I could be with God, Alone 
To ask again, to etch in stone 

All his commandments, once again 
Some have forgotten all the ten
Some good, some bad...we all have flaws 
The bitten apple- "That's because" 

Because Eve bit that tasty fruit 
And Adam raised the cane- to boot 
We find ourselves committing sins 
And dancing to sweet violins...

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The lowest mountain in the Sinai
  a mountain cloaked in humility
unassuming, meek, of no particular prestige
  no fortress strong in times of siege

No high peak on which to stand
  no platform from which to view the sand
Little more than a glorified hill
  a mountain with neither ego nor will

Yet on its top God spoke to the world
  though of all men, only Moses heard
The meekest, most humble man who ever lived
  To him, God chose His Torah to give...

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I have a Christian Friend, Regina
She had never uttered  '':
Not for all the tea in Big China,
As though it could give her Angina;
For life ban her from Holy Sinai...

Fears picked from Born - Again Wood Shiner
And Bible Student Friend Georgina,
Both of them passionate Catholics,
To alter their minds lots of New Tricks:
Among them planting cunning Martin,
His fine point fluent Catholic Latin:
At the last moment to Regina:
Mary won't kill for voiced ....

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The season of the 
    seder 
is 
almost 
upon 
us 
We will be filled with joy 
when we imbibe 
the four cups of wine 
   The mighty Red Sea 
parted for Moses and the Israelites 
as they move forward 
with their plans 
The late, lamented 
Richie Havens 
sang of Sinai in his 
   "Minstrel from Gault"
This year we once more 
are thankful 
for the Passover meal 
   and yes , we will take joy in 
our delivery from forces which 
are intended to destroy us...

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I ask for refuge to Allah from Satan the exiled evildoer.
In the name of Allah the Kind and the Giver.

Swear upon the fig and the olive
And the Sinai Mount
And this city that is safe and sound
Of course we created human in the best make
Then We turn them into the worst shape
Except those who believe and do good things
So they shall have rewards that are endless
Knowing all these things
Who can give you lie about the judgment?
Is not Allah the Best of the Judges?...

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