I The sun streams through the window baking my skin slowly creating its first heat since you touched me for the last time.
Archive for the ‘Emotions/Inner World’ Category
Sunny Day Poetry
Posted in Death/Loss/Grief, Poetry, Relationships on April 20, 2015 | 1 Comment »
While her baby was dying
Posted in Babies, Death/Loss/Grief, Existential, Natural World, Sons, Tulips on April 8, 2015 | Leave a Comment »
I flew amidst the bumpiness of air currents Not knowing that between land and cloud It wasn’t wind, but Death blowing in, come to snatch The final breath Of one who would never reach His 2nd birthday.
In the light of your eyes, smiling
Posted in Connection, Lust, Space/Universe on March 8, 2015 | Leave a Comment »
I imagine fingers tasting nose caressing embrace inhaling pulse undressing gaze blanketing breath bathing chest laughing eyes licking heart devouring tongue listening sigh kissing smell encompassing teeth tickling hair grasping lips tumbling Lost/found, filled/emptied, taken/released, awoken/lulled dissolving/re-forming in the folds of time and space. The galaxy, once hidden, revealed each time you blink.
This Spring
Posted in Death/Loss/Grief, Existential, Flowers, Healing, Seasons on February 25, 2015 | 2 Comments »
First the crocuses, bursting blue and purple, then the yellow of daffodils, now the blaze of tulips pushing forward to the front of the line, boisterous school children lined up for recess, struggling to wait their turn, antsy, unruly, yet held to the rules, holding, each in its turn, colors and shapes harmonizing, each stem […]
Transliteration
Posted in Death/Loss/Grief, Fantasies, Fathers, Lust, Meditation, Prayer, Religion, Writing on February 18, 2015 | 1 Comment »
When a Jewish parent dies, the surviving adult child is obligated to recite the Kaddish, the Mourner’s Prayer that never mentions death, twice a day for 11 months. Prayer books print three versions: the Hebrew, the transliteration of the Hebrew, and a translation into the reader’s primary language, such as English or Spanish. Yitgadal […]