Reach Up a Glad Heart

On The Road To Redemption

Thursday, December 14, 2017

Light of Torah

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Comments and ideas on the parshah of the week.  Let's begin with this week's parshah Mikeitz which always falls on or close to Chanu...
Sunday, February 22, 2015

Jordan River - photo

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Jordan River - Photo How could a river, calm and still - A rive...
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Sunday, January 18, 2015

Morning Light

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Morning Light Step forth this day Past...
Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Swift Express

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, Swift Express A messenger arrived swift express ...
Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Going for Broke

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Aug. 28, '13                              Going for Broke       I always wanted a picket-fence happiness -       Fluttering white c...

Breaking Free

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      Aug. 14, '13                                    Breaking Free       We're told and I believe it:       The world every se...
Tuesday, October 1, 2013

The Reckless Choice

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     July 31, '13                                  The Reckless Choice                                            "I shall set...

Rap Song of the Sixties

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July 31, '13                              Rap Song of the Sixties         Ain't no way I'm gonna stay on this no-exit stre...
Thursday, August 29, 2013

Building the Bais HaMikdash

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                July 17, '13                           Building the Bais HaMikdash       I found today the brand of marmalade I so...

Expecting the Unexpected

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                         July 10, '13                               Expecting the Unexpected      Ever since assigned to write  ...

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                                      June 26, '13                                        'What If ' I Refuse...        I ...
Tuesday, August 20, 2013

A Consuming Occupation

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June 19, '13                           A Consuming Occupation     Happy my years of teaching though passing few -     Ever since I ...

Color Me No Color

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      June 12, '13                                  Color Me No Color    "I will raise aloft the milk-white rose" -    I ...

No Problem - No solution

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             June 5, '13                              No Problem - No Solution    It's a real dilemma finding a resolution    T...
Thursday, August 15, 2013

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                    May 29. '13                            Sonnet On Line           To take off with any word through time         ...

U.S.A.

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                   May 29, '13                                 U.S.A.      I wish to make it clear from the start -      Jerusalem...

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                                April 24, '13                         Unseasonable Weather               When I consider my inner wea...
Tuesday, August 6, 2013

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         May 22, '13                                       Standing at the Mountain         I'm standing in my stroller seven m...

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                        May 8, ,13                                    Fear Only One         Nothing in school scared me more than ma...

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                      May 1, '13                                L'ag B'Omer - Beauty Within Beauty                      ...
Thursday, August 1, 2013

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                        April 17, '13                                                           Independence Day - 5773 I watched ...

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                             March 31, '13                  On Being Assigned to Write About Preparing                       I ...
Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Spring Spring

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                                                                                                         Spring    I never liked spri...
Sunday, July 28, 2013

Joys of the sonnet

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       Feb. 13, '13                                              Peering Into the Future                                    Wheneve...
Thursday, September 15, 2011

The President Goes to Paterson

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The governor and local officials gratefully await The arrival of the President. He will greet the area's hard-...

The Olive Tree

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I'd like to think the olive tree braves the storm, But that's fond self-projection - With winter's blo...
Monday, July 25, 2011

Poems on the Seven Species

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I never saw a field of wheat - "Yet know I how it looks" - Nor had I known a single sheaf - Except I found it in a book. Wheat - i...
Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Winter-deprived - 5771

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It was the wind Like the crack of a whip - The kind that goes ...
Monday, April 12, 2010

"Girl on Bus - Jerusalem"

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A girl got on the bus today Who reminded me of My friend Elaine in our youth - ...

-Down and Out in Phila.

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"Ain't no way I'm gonna love what is When what is adds up To what ain...
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Most of the poems on this site express a yearning for the dawn of a new era, though some were not initially motivated with that intention. Rather they began with a desire to describe a singular aspect of a day or season, or in a few rare instances by the rush of an emotion swiftly followed by the flashing in of the first line of the poem. Then somewhere in the process of writing, the question came: where was the poem going? what did it want to say? The answer was that the whole poem could be turned ino a metaphor for the sighting of a new world. Put another way, my conscious life where I learn and think about redemption found its way into the deeper vein of my desire for self-expression. This process is described by the Lubavitcher Rebbe - that we are motivated by the need for self-realization as well as by the desire to serve a goal higher than ourselves. In the future both these drives will become one. The photographs accompanying the poems are the work of a friend whose art photography can be seen on her blog "Simple Photography" www.islandsofpeace.blogspot.com. We hope you enjoy our creative endeavor and look forward with you "to a brand new world".
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