THE POETRY OF THE BRAVE ONES
[**Welcome---Ladies and gentlemen--
to our Gevurah of Gevurah stop--- here in our annual Sefirat Ha-Omer
tour—we will be re-boarding the bus shortly –so do your best
to breathe in the rarified atmosphere that you can find here---it is
the heart of Gevurah ---it is the heart of courage ---it is what is
needed these days to stand up for what is right –to hold tight to the endless
light that is within grasp ---dig deep and liberate this absolutely
necessary side of your lives**]
Dear
fearless lion-hearted chance takers-------brand new friend
makers-----------Tikun Olam for G-d's sake-ers-----never ever pretenders or
fakers------unashamed to tell the fakers to go jump in a lake-ers……..the time
has come to step up-----the One Above is looking for a few good men and
women---to get things started again -----to share your
heart-full expressive selves with those newcomers and
older veterans who are looking for some light filled courage to be able to jump
into your essences again -------so jump on board ----what are you waiting
for----let your inner lion roar---like it's never roared before ----need I say
anything more ? we all know what the score is-- here in the
end of days------the wise ones are saying we all need to find our own unique
ways to push it over the edge------to jump back into Paradise again---like Adam
and Eve once did -------but to do this ---we need to be fearless and crystal
clear –that there is only one way out of here --------we need to hear that lion
inside and derive as much inspiration as we can ---the fate of the
nation and the whole of humanity is in your hands….so reach out and take His
Hand----He's leading us all back to the Promised Land
Dear brave children of vision…..dear intenders to
live by the decision that you have made -----don't let it slip away---it is your
unique voice---you have no choice but to follow it's call ---no matter where it
leads you ----and all the distractions and abstractions and reactions that you
get from inside and out---are only a test to see if you will carry out your
holy 'yiud' ---your unique melody and tune---which sooner or later in this
incarnation or the next—will be carried out-----follow the holy sparks –guiding
you from beyond the stars to do what you must do---and listen to the voice that
comes to you ----and let go of control and go with it---it's the only reason
that you are here---so do not fear dear one---your time has come—and it may not
come again too soon……..we are all rooting for you
Dear brave vulnerable friends…..friends who
are willing to take a chance and be vulnerably intimate with themselves and
their dark sides…and their closest intimate friends and life in
general ….Dear lovers of the opportunity that intimacy can give to you –to let
yourselves truly be you---no one else will do ---only the real you with all of
your flaws coming through will allow the love between them and you be true to
the core---and nothing is more sweet and real---than when you can't wait to
feel the exquisiteness of representing who you really are –and your partner
---most likely will follow suit---and the interplay and exchange of
your and their vulnerable truths –will build a foundation of love like none you
have known before and truth will saturate the atmosphere of every place you
frequent and love will be inspired to make itself known to all those you know
and to everywhere you go
Dear wanderers through the wilderness of life ….searchers
for a plan or for some inspiration to help to make it all work out right…..hear
the calling deep inside your spirit –like the bat kol of old announcing
it's message to the bold ones……see the horizon's distant light selectively
shining in your eyes like the the pillar of fire leading you past the pitfalls
of life in the seemingly endless life…..know your path and know it well and
don't fall for some cliché way that passes for a respectable plan
for any decent woman or man---time and life is way too precious for that…you
have a song that no one else can compose ---and that's the one and only way
that you are meant to go…..perhaps some poetic inspiration can light up your
absolutely unique resonation
THE PATH OF THE CHOSEN FEW
take me there
show me where
I don't care
about anything else
so please take me there
light up my way now
the path eludes me somehow
show me the what and how
so that I too can know
how to light up my way now
the past holds every clue
the future leads me into the new
this path is only for those chosen few
who knows if I belong
only the One Above can provide me a clue
take me back home
back to where I come from
to the place above the sun
bring me back
back to the place of One
FROM THE NARROW STRAITS I CALL
**the narrow straits
the struggling places
sometimes makes us
fall on our faces
**but the woman
and the man
when they know the secret of faith
that the narrow straits
always lead
to an expansive place
**and there was darkness
and then there was light
and G-d said ,
Let there be light
and every blessing has endless light
and every prayer has infinite might
**cast away the bitterness
banish the hopelessness
melt away the despair
as if it was never there
**from the narrow straits I call to
You
and when I do
I know that You'll come through
just like you always do
**and that's how you turn the narrow
straits
into the most expanded place
a place of love and grace
an amazing sacred space
an eternal sanctuary
an infinite way to see
that no one
and no thing
that stands in your way
will stay there
if you open your lips to pray
to the One Above
to just take it away
that's what I wanted to say
LISTEN TO THE LION INSIDE OF YOU
listen to a
whole new voice
opening inside of you
quiet and subtle at first
but growing in intensity
a birthing the birth screams of
Mashiach
happening deep inside you
listen to
the the darkness
all the darknesses of your life
calling you from a distance
at first but steadily coming closer
growing bolder you've always kept
them at a distance
but something has shifted
you
can now see right through them
when you don't take your eyes off of them
even for a second
that's when you become friends
that's when the angels in charge of your pain and
suffering
surrender to you and they have
no choice but to yield to
your penetrating stare
and
the walls of illusion
and delusion and dissolution
and confusion
come tumbling down
just because you know that underneath
that pain that hurt
there lies a light from Above
a light that keeps
everything in existence
and the
Angel of death
revealed to Moses
the supernal ways
these secrets the Ketoret the
holy spices
the sublime combinations
of goodness and badness
meshed together in sacred light
and dashed away the darkness
of the endless exile night
and the
messianic light
is being born inside of us
and the birth pangs distract us
but the promise of a better day
of a higher way
of an endless voice guides us
listen to
the lion
inside of you
now in the time of messianic birthing
and let the
roar
encourage you to say never more
will I take my eyes away from
the golden gate that is open to one and
all
just walk on through that door
**the price
of admission
is submission to His Mysterious ways
the secret code is believing
believing is seeing and seeing is believing
POETRY OF THE SEFIROT [GEVURAH WEEK]
[**these first few poems are inspired by the writings of R.
Avraham Yitzchak Kook Ztz'l followed by some other poems that I was
inspired by this Gevurah week**]
BOUND AND BOUNDLESS
**Every person and every
matter great and small
That are found in this place that we call 'Olam'
They all have an appearance of being normal and limited and
bounded
**But we know that this World
is a place that hides His true nature
And nature itself is hiding Super-Nature
And the bound is hiding the bound-less
**And when we open our minds to see
this hidden seeing
Then we will truly see that when the Red Sea splits
Every Sea splits
**And what can manifest at the
core
Of anything and everything
Is endless and boundless infinity
For those with eyes to see
THE HIDDEN AND REVEALED RATZON
**There is revealed Ratzon {Primal
Will}
In the hidden recesses of the soul
**Loving Ratzon in the
heart
When it is revealed
Awakens the hidden Ratzon in the World
**This Ratzon draws down the light
Of the Holy Shechina—the Soul of the world
**And then all of the world's
Ratzons
Are elevated
And birth new Souls
And heal all those
Who need healing
RAISHIT CHOCHMA YIRAT HASHEM
{The Beginning of Wisdom is the Fear of G-d—Proverbs
9/10}
The quintessence of wisdom
The source of endless insight;
Is Yirat Hashem
Is fear of G-d
Is seeing G-d
Is Awe of G-d
Is being terrified of losing connection with G-d
How can the fear of G-d become wisdom?
How can fear be the key to wisdom?
How can fear be the source of wisdom?
But then I see
I see G-d seeing me
I see Heaven embracing me
I see my passion to see G-d
I see that passion guiding me constantly
And seeing G-d seeing me
Sets me free
Guides my life
Liberates my mind
Expands my insight endlessly
It's the outer key
That unlocks my inner me
Enabling me to see
The essence of reality
FEAR OF LOSING
Have you ever felt the preciousness
of someone so deeply/ so completely
That you know with certainty
That you cannot
That you will not
Ever
Lose it
[come what may]
Through thick and thin---through life and death!
So what do you do?
You simply say –no way
No one and no thing will get in your way
Nothing that anyone can say
You build a wall
So strong and tall
That nothing at all can get through
And you set aside a sacred space
A sacred time
When no one else is there
To sing the praises of that which you hold so dear
And your fear of losing
Is transformed
Into a constant choosing
To never lose
THE INFINITE POWER OF CONSTRICTION
And the Creator of it all
Saw in his infinite and eternal way
That in order to create something beside Him
In order to let others in
Something else that He could relate to
Something like a child or a student or a friend
He would need to create
A beginning and an end
A constriction to the expansion
A saying to the Universe—Enough!!
A moving Himself out of the way
A limiting of time that there could be a night and a
day
And in His Infinite
wisdom
He moved his infinity out of the way
[or at least so it seemed
For those who can't see Him in His hiding
And that's how He taught us all
That in order to allow
Your own infinity to be shared endlessly
You must constrict yourself
And let your loved one free
To be whoever they want to be
SAYING NO
For other people , he was a yes
sayer
He wanted to be a good player
In the game of people pleasing
He was terrified of saying no
He wouldn't know how to cope
With the threatening silence that
Follows a disapproving stare
He would always leave the
interaction
With a promise that by the next time
That they met
He would see to it that all would be YES
And then one day out of the blue
A new possibility presented itself to him
A possibility that he'd never known
The possibility of saying NO
And he was shown that when he said
no
Life would nevertheless go on –just like before
But new doors
Would open themselves to him
New possibilities cams his way
And the more 'Nos' that he would say
The more choices that would come his way
The more his inner voice would come into play
And from that 1st no saying day on
He stumbled upon
Blessed yesses
Carefully selected yesses
True to his essence yesses
THE MANY SPLENDORED COLORS OF SAYING NO
Saying no can take you to places that yes
sayers
Can never go
Painting your day with the colors of
saying no
Will show you how to hold on
To the blessings that come your way
Every day
When you find yourself wanting to
rain down limitlessly
All that you know and see
on some unsuspecting being
try to restrain yourself a bit
though it might be painful a bit
the eventual gain you can gain from it
will be well worth it
The getting yourself out of
someone's way
Might just reveal to you a whole new side of life
A whole new way
A new side of them
And a new side of you too
POETRY OF THE ETERNALLY RESTLESS SPIRIT
Dear eternal life kindlers…..dear
restless begin again-ers…..dear darkness turned into life emulaters ….your
images dance in front of my inner eyes today and all days….your vision is the
vision that we all need to draw from--- in order to emulate His Eternal
spirit---in order to light up the darkest exiles of our lives tonight and all
nights…..share with us your insight ---about life and about being alive and
about rekindling life and about seeing so deeply and so profoundly that the
aliveness will last forever--- and about receiving so
completely –that the blessings will dance their way
around us –inside and outside of us------and the hunger will consume us and
resurrect our ancient restless spirit---and paradoxical voices will encompass
us –with holy hunger for more –the battle of evermore---teaching us what it's
all –and we will reach out for You and never stop desiring to penetrate your
eternity to see and know nothing but you to pledge poetic allegiance to thee—to
be aware that you are watching me—lovingly—endlessly
–compassionately--eternally
EMULATE
And I offer a heart-filled prayer
to the One who sees right through me
to the One who loves me infinitely
to the One who shows me the possibility
of giving away all I own for free
and a great weight is removed from me
when I emulate the
The One
Whose love is given
Freely
Infinitely
Effortlessly
Eternally
GIFTS
We are blessed human beings
We are blessed with gifts
that come to us all the time
and
Seep their way into our lives
just on the edge of our awareness
just on the edge of our consciousness
just waiting us to embrace them
To unwrap them,
to bring them into our souls
Into our lives
so many words
so many people
so many things
going on
We have
no inkling
or fathoming
of just how endless
and profound these gifts truly are
ALLEGIANCE
***poetry
has staked its property
here inside of me
I can't seem
to find
any other way to be
******electricity
is the eye
with which I see
with such intensity
that I can't seem
to free myself
from it's light
which enraptures me
***eternity
I pledge allegiance to thee
your spacious expanse
draws me inside of thee
it's the only voice
that speaks to me
THE HUNGER
we can never still
the hunger we feel
once it becomes real
when the walls come tumbling down
and the truth makes itself all too clear
Take me back
Take me back home
how can I possibly
tame the wild beast?
how can I contain
the tempest storm?
How can I stifle
the insatiable longing
to come back to my ancient home
to return to my infinite womb
I remember your
voice
I remember our dance
I remember our joy
I remember the bliss
I remember the love
THE PARADOX PASSWORD
Paradox is the password…
it's the only way to get from here to there
in a world where attaching to one side alone
will paralyze you…
will stifle you ..will minimize you…
But when you set in motion
paradoxical notions
then the mountains
and the oceans
will go to bat for you
will show where it's at for you
will point you in a direction
that's based on your inner predilection
Though it may make no
sense
to your linear minded friends
it's really the only way
to find your way home
THIS IS WHO I AM
the barriers
of her fears
the blockades
of years
came tumbling down
like a dam
crashed by a battering ram
she declared
this IS who I am
she found her
voice
and the more she spoke
and the more she wrote
the more the world
spoke to her
at first with great demure
timid and mild
not wreck-less or wild
until she opened her
eyes
and she stood up and enticed
the messages from far and near
to present themselves
crystal clear
to anyone
who really wanted
who really needed
to hear
GO INTO THEE
To go into Thee
that's where I want to be
and I listen closely
for the real me
to set myself free
will the real me
please step up
and let me be me
the essential me
and I am shown
a glimpse
of the true ANI
and that's enough
to drive me
to become
the real me
from now
through eternity
TO BE SO ALIVE THAT OUR ALIVENESS LASTS FOREVER
**we interface
with the transitioning
into the gray mist
where the old notion
of aliveness
pales
in comparison with
the new one
**and when we flirt
with the image
of a new
un-familiar
[and at the same time -painfully familiar]
all encompassing home world
then suddenly
all of the old fears and concerns
melt away
into the inconsequential past
**we are born
we die
into a new birth
headed towards
a new death-birth
constantly
indelibly inevitably
**and the pulse of life
beyond life
beckons......
a Heavenly Voice
hiding in the shadows
reminds us
invites us
engrosses us
captures us
subtlely
secretively
surreptitious-ly
**show us
how to choose
the most important
selections
how to go in
the most meaningful
directions
how to bond with
the most loving
connections
**how to be so
alive
that we have no doubt
that all we do and say
and think and feel
will plant seeds of endless
purity and alive-ness
and love and light
that will last forever
THE POETRY OF WATER AND FIRE LOVE
[***At this time when the Sefirot of Chesed and Gevurah
converge {in the counting of the Sefirat Ha-Omer}---it's an auspicious time to
poetically explore the poetry of the Love of Water {Chesed} and Fire
{Gevurah}***]
Dear love seekers….love speakers ….love thinkers…love
dreamers …… constantly …and you surely know that there are different kinds of
love …fire love and water love…. And the two so often get confused with each
other …..passionate love masquerading as universal love ….and universal love
longing to be embraced as passionate love…..and the beat goes on…and the love
entrances us…enhances us…enchants us…implants in us--- the desire for more
….for just as the sea's crashing waves are not stilled until they arrive at the
shore---so too does the thirst for love never leave us in peace ---until a
beloved one reassures us of their love and allow us to be released –at least as
long as we feel that the love is real…..perhaps one or two of these water and
fire love poems will steal your heart away…and if not today---there's always
another day …there always is…..
LOVE LIKE WATER AND FIRE
*****Some speak of a love like water
a love that has no bounds
a love that never ends
a love that only gives
a love that is the essence of life a love that is so
subtle
so pure in it’s frequency level so unselfish so G-dly
so much a part of everything so much a part of you and
me
that you may not ever notice it
unless it’s threatened to be taken away
****Some speak of a love like water
a sisterly love a blissful love
an essential love an unconditional love
a love extended to one and all
a love that free loves from above
a love of silver a love of the Tree of Life
a love of The Crown a love of nothingness
a love which is perfect as is
***** Some speak of a love like fire
a love that comes and goes
a love that threatens to get away
a love that gives and takes
a love that is intoxicating
a love that is so deeply felt
so deeply experienced
so attached to one’s sense of wellbeing
so connected to self esteem
so human
so personal
that you can’t think of anything else
and you don’t think
you could live without it
*****Some speak of a love like fire
a lover’s love
an eccentric love
a fragile love
a jealous love
a love directed solely to one’s beloved
a love is that is aroused from below
a love of gold
a love of the Tree of Knowledge
a love of The Kingdom
a love of something ness
a love which constantly yearns
*****Some know how to love both loves
To yearn like fire
And be in bliss like water
To arouse the water love
With the fire love
And when one knows love
Then one lives love
And the fire and water love
Become one love
MAY YOUR LOVE WATER THE THIRSTY ONES
~May You share love
May you give of yourself completely
May that giving manifest
as an ever growing
ever deepening love
for every human being
and for THE ONE
who is the source
of all love
~May you create at all times,
incredible love...
a love that reflects back to you
the true love inside of you
that lies at the core
of who you are
~May you be a love giver
a love creator
a love maker
at all times
~May your love
make the world
a better place
always in all ways
~May your love
water the thirsty ones
parched from no one
in their lives
sharing love with them
like the new season's rains
water the dried up desert
LOVE
***I have a new/ old friend
Her name is Love
**** She is everybody's friend
at least they all
would like to think so
but in any case
she never turns them away
when they look her way
****When I saw her once
in a new and different way
She no longer was for me
elusive
or intrusive
or abusive
****She was in fact
light as a feather
and whether I chased her
or just let her go
she no longer ran away
****I could tell at this time
that she was
here to stay
SPEAK TO ME
******He tastes her words
He breathes in her name
He drinks in her sighs
His heart longs
to engage her
in heart dialogue....
******He then dares
to reach out to her
and he says,
''please, dearest flower
, flower of love---water love,
speak to me from the heart,
speak to me of the love
of water
and fire too,
speak to me of passion
my eyes seek to see you
in the light of the dawn
my heart longs to know you
in a way
that only hearts
can know
******speak to me of the night
speak to me in silence
speak to me in sacred song
speak to me from the mystery
that lies hidden
inside you
A HOLY FIRE OF LOVE
there is a holy fire of love
a love for all that exists
a love that sees no distinctions
a love that sees nothing but soul
a love that keeps us warm
a love of endless delight
a love dependent on nothing
a love that embraces all creatures
a love that sees through the facade
a love experienced by those
who have penetrated consciousness
a love that is fueled by infinite love
from The One Above
MANY WATERS CANNOT QUENCH THE LOVE
[*Song of Songs*]
****and he says to her,
"how can I possibly
tame the wild beast?
how can I contain
the tempest storm?
How can I stifle
the insatiable longing
I have for you?"
****and she says to him
"many waters cannot quench
the love that I feel for you
night and day
There's nothing else
I can do
this love will be forever
it will never go away "
****and he says to her,
" the hunger
is never stilled
there is no cure
there is no magic pill
I continue to roam
these desolate streets
searching for any clues
listening for any news
I may hear about you"
****and she says to him,
"I remember your voice
I remember our dance
I remember our joy
I remember the bliss
I remember the love
the endless love
the love that no one
can live without"
****and he says to her
"and the search goes on
it always will
we can never still the hunger we feel
once it becomes real
when the walls come tumbling down
and the truth makes itself all too clear
Take me backTake me back home to you"
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