Everything Saddens Me

EVERYTHING SADDENS ME

Everything saddens me
Even the sound of the sea.
Why can they not just let us be?
Everything saddens me.

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I Do Not Know How I Will Die

I DO NOT KNOW/ HOW I WILL DIE

I do not know
how I will die
I only hope it seems-
a simple sleep in paradise
a kind of happy dream.

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The Human Being is Body- Bound

THE HUMAN BEING IS BODY- BOUND

A human being is body- bound
To terrestrial gravity-
Only silicon descendants
For cosmic mysteries.

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After I Wrote A Small Poem

After I wrote a small poem
I thanked God in my heart
And God did not say “No”
But listened in blessing
As only God knows how to.

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I Feel My Own Failure In All I Am

I FEEL MY OWN FAILURE IN ALL I AM

I feel my own failure in all I am
And yet
A few lines
A small poem
And I am wholly deluded again.

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Thank G-d I Can Still Walk

THANK G-D I CAN STILL WALK

Thank G-d I can still walk
Thank G-d I can still see
Thank G-d I can still think
Thank G-d I am still me.

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God's Stars

GOD'S STARS

God’s stars
Help us to dream
A Beauty beyond us,
Other worlds
We aspire to, .
Even as we know them too
Long Dead Dust.

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I Am Not A Nature Poet

I AM NOT A NATURE POET

I am not a Nature poet,
And the trees and the skies I see
Are more than my eyes can name
And my mind can write.

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Small Simple Poems

Small simple poems
Of little lines
Sustained by troubled
Inner rhymes

Will speak to you
As to me
The language of
Life’s Poetry.

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A Paradox Of Prayer

A PARADOX OF PRAYER (After a teaching of Seth Kadish)

We are too small,
So forbidden to pray-
God commands ‘prayer’
We must obey.

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