A WIP

Hebrew Poems

See also shirim-ve-tehillim-poems-and-psalms.html

and also bamisaadah-in-resteraunt

and also HaAchbar be cluv Haryeh

היה טוב היה רע
השבוע נגמר
שבת נכנסת
ואני הזויה

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בא נערבב את זה קצת
שבוע שלום ושבת טוב
משה רודן
תפילין כסוג של סטיה מינית
ושחיטה פולחן עכ"ומי אכזרית

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אם אני לא רואה עברית כמה שבועות

העיניים מתחילות להרגיש משהו מעין חולשה

והן צריכות להיטהר על עיתון עברי או

אריזה ממוצר ישראלי כלשהו

אפילו אם זאת כתבה על עבריין שנהרג מפיצוץ רימון במרכז עפולה

או נשיא שמשמש בשד אשה כמו משמש בשל

לא חשוב
כי לא התוכן העיקר

אלא הצורה

הצדי הצהלי

הפה הפטמתי

העין הערגתי

המם המוצק כמו המותנים של המ"מ שאחריהן הלכתי

שהייתי בין אלף ותף

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יושבים עם אלוהים בסלון

הילדים ואנחנו

הוא בן בית אצלינו

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בלי סיבה

במסעדה

תקפה אותי

עצבות

חדה

הלקוחות לעסו

הילדים נהנו
ואני לא ידעתי
מה פשר התהום
שלתוכו
צללתי

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אני חי בקליפורניה

וזה ממש לא נורה, נורה

גם פה יודעים

לרקוד הורה, הורה

ומרביצים תורה, תורה

להשתמש במטא-

פורה

בכל מקום נמצאת אורה

אורה

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עברית היא רכבת

שמצמידה קרונות מלותיה בסמיכות

לאורך פסי ההיסטוריה

פעם דוהרת

פעם יורדת

לפעמים נואמת

לפעמים מלמלת

תפילה בקיצור

כי ממהרים לצאת

לארץ המובטחת או

לתנור

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איזה הוא גיבור?

הכובש את יצרו. לא המשמיד או המבטל את יצרו.

משמע שתהפוך\י את יצרו למוצרים שיש בהם תועלת.

More notes on Australia

Immigration To Australia

Year one: busy busy
Year two: zolpidem
Year three: zoloft
Year four: metrol beta blockers
Year five: steroids for haemarhoids and Cymbalata for everything else

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"Can I speak to Alison please?"
"I'm sorry she's not at her desk at the moment"
Ok , could you ask her to phone me please
"Would you like to tell me what its about"
"No I fukking well wouldn't."
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Because I wanted to get away from Crime and incompetence in SA
I now have to put up with anal bureacrats who hate creativity and spontanaiety with a passion
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Thank you G?d
for being in Australia
thank you G?d
for bicycles
thank you G?d
for Yoga and rain
thank you G?d
for my so called mistakes

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Australia's synagogues
are its shopping malls
horse racing courses
and stadia
where its people try to still
with forgetting and numbness
the hunger for more
but if someone gives me a job
I will stop complaining

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While I have found some establishment Australian poetry (poetry written in Australia?) fresh and clever, I find much of it to be technically acomplished, but emotinally flat and instantly forgettable - soul less would be the metaphorical descriptor that comes to mind. Which probably says as much about me and my disinterest in recasting myself as Australian (whatever that might be - is Australian an Imam in Lakemba or is it a Tamil Tiger refugee making their way in Adelaide??...answer it is both, as well as the Aboriginal inhabitants and Anglo invaders)

( despite the tokenistic curtsies and nods in the direction of multiculturalism, the public domain here is still dominated and grounded in one discourse, one set of assumptions, one representation of normative reality) which is largely that of secularized English speaking Christianity - so from mainly Anglo TV presenters, to the temporal orientation points of Christmas and Easter, to the normalization of meat eating and heterosexuality and alcohol consumption and horse racing - the ideas about what is Australian still trump who actually lives in Australia, and the visibly or substantially different still live their differences in the safe and subterranean burrows of the private domain )

Message in a bottle

Hello from darkest sydney
where nothing happens very slowly
but perhaps not as slowly as it doesn't happen
in Cairns or September
who knows?
its enough to drive you to Bhuddism or Bretslavism
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Things I l loathe about Australia
its diffident complacency
its bureaucrats and civil srvants trained to think inside (the bottom left hand corner not exceeding 5cm of ) the box

box
its aversion to risk, its do it by numbers
its horse racing beer drinking war on fish tv
its blonde haired presenters, its fear of the depths
its do it by the book robotic pretence

Things I like about Australia
its diffident complacency
its bureaucrats and civil sevants trained to think in the lid of the
box
its aversion to risk, its do it by numbers
its horse racing beer drinking war on fish tv
its blonde haired presenters, its fear of the depths
its do it by the book robotic pretence



Australian history begins in Southern India
Australian history begins in Ireland
Australian history begins in Poland and Greece and Lebanon and South Africa
The narrative does not start here it only continues here
we all bought our lives inside us with us, and tried to continue them here as best we could, in some shape and form, even if we had lost everything there...

See also: australia-day

Poems of reconciliation – two moving songs by Yehuda Amichai, of blesssed memory

The place where we are right

From the place where we are right
Flowers will never grow
In the spring.

The place where we are right
Is hard and trampled
Like a yard.

But doubts and loves
Dig up the world
Like a mole, a plow.
And a whisper will be heard in the place
Where the ruined
House once stood.

Jerusalem

in the Old City
Laundry hanging in the late afternoon sunlight:
The white sheet of a woman who is my enemy,
The towel of a man who is my enemy,
To wipe off the sweat of his brow.

In the sky of the Old City
A kite.
At the other end of the string,
A child
I can't see
Because of the wall.

We have put up many flags,
They have put up many flags.
To make us think that they're happy.
To make them think that we're happy.

(Translated by Irena Gordon )

Shirim ve Tehillim - Hebrew poems and psalms

See also bamisaadah-in-resteraunt

Hayiti melech hagevaot
veshafan haamakim
beyachad /betiyum
im peimot libi


Listening to Noah
singing "nanuah"
liquid love
smiling through tears
pure ghee rubbed
on a babies' back
feels just like that
a 1000 years
of lonely fear
hiding in fortress of the heart
dissolves just like that
im ayn haAyn Sof
az maayin noveya
hayofi hazeh
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Habayit reyk
hamekarerr mefamzem lo
d'maot shel shalva
zolgot al lechyai

(The house is empty
the fridge is whirring
tears of peace
pour down my face)

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In the small silence
I glimpse the great silence
that Solomon spoke of:
“ki azah kamavet haahavah
mayim rabim lo yuchlu lechabotah
uneharot lo yishtefuhah...
for love is strong
as death a flame
blazing vast floods
cannot extinguish
nor rivers down.”
I take off my body
and stay at home
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Yesh kav dak shemavdil bayn brocha vebroch
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Lechora beyni uvayn aynut mavdil kesa'ar dak bilvad
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Ani kevar mitgageya ketzat le yeladim mibeyt hasefer
shelifnei shvuayim lo ratziti lachshov aleyhem
ki im hapreydah
lo nuchal lehaamik et hadoo siach beyneynu

yesh po eyze hefsed
eyze fisfus
eyze kishalon
shelahem vesheli
aval beikar
sheli

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Tefila

Elohim lo sheli
tayn shelo ekach
et ishti
veet Yaldai
kamuvan mayalayhem

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Ani somech al boray olam
shesriday haosher
sheani pizarti yachzeru alay
bemukdam oh meuchar



Haetgar haikari
shel hamehager
leolam hazeh
hu limtzoh nekudat achizah
oh im lo ken
lehashlim
im ha rechifa
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kol hapoalim (verbs)
avru bifnei /lifnei (?) vaadat hacharigim
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tamid ratziti lehiyot
eved neeman
lemakor hachayim
ze matim li
lemakor hachayim shebee
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Eretz Yisraeyl nikneyt
beshiva drachim
beraglayim
uvzayin
uveaf beadama
uvakimat sefatayim
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Beyisrayl afilu haparot mafginot
im shlatim vekruzim "dam haparot hefker"
ve "dam haparot eyno hefker"
aval beyn ko ve cho
adayin hofchim otam le meilay ohr
venaalayim
veketzitzot basar

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kesheyesh li machshavot kvedot
az ani keze kaved
ukeshe yesh li machshavot kalot
ani af li kemo tzipor
dror

meyeyfo baot ha machshavot hakveydot
meyeyfo baot hamachshavot hakalot?

kesheyesh li machshavot kveydot
ani tzarich ligror et gufi lechol makom (legorrer)
kebat aruva lemetziyut achzarit

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Chaf mipesha ( I have done no wrong)

ma asiti
rak noladati
ani mipesha chaf

ma asiti
rak nashamti
chaf ani mipesha

pitom matzati
et atzmi
rak mitzmatzti
eynanyim patachti
mipesha chaf ani

eyn ma laasot
ani chafshi
eyn ma laasot
ani chafshi

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Meyever laMilim

keta'ay machshava
eyze guf petzatza
matzu et atzmam
baderech lesham
lelo chazara
lelo takana

shalom ani kan
telatfi oti sham
mitachat leaf
umeyever leblaf

oniya veyam
ani po, aba sham
Avinu sheba.....
veanu lemata

milim shotfot oti
tishmeii, tishmeii
hagalim melatfim
ayn lehem kevar milim

birkat hayam ubirkat hasadeh
birkat mabateych hatzanuah veyafeh

shalom ani kan
telatfi oti sham
mitachat leaf
umeyever leblaf

oniya veyam
ani po, aba sham
Avinu sheba.....
veanu lemata

milim shotfot oti
tishmeii, tishmeii
hagalim melatfim
ayn lehem kevar milim

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lerachem bechol otzmat harachamim
ulenachem bechol otzmat hanichumim
ulehanot becholl otzmat hataanugim
ulefakpek bechol otzmat hahisusim

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lifamim
she ani yoshev
im hagaavah hamutzneyt sheli
vehasheket hamitnasay sheli
vehamachshavot hamefuchadot sheli
al "pochazim vereykim"
shemedabrim unehenim
az ani meachayl leatzmi
lirot miever leshavrirut sheli
et/im hacheylek haeytan shebi

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mi shekatav
"zariti yamai lahevel" taah
ki eyleh lo yamav velo yamai
vehayamim eynam
shel af echad

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Lemitnachlim hamityavnim
beChevron uVeyt Ayl
Asher machru et nishmotayhem
letinah ulesinah
shebli oyev ayn lahem kiyum
shekofrim beachdut habriya veyotzro
shemeached otam veet shelo otam
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