empowering the feminine
my task is from now, always was; i had not the words for it until recently an inclusive term for there are men who support the feminine as there are women who trample on her for greed is genderless as is lust and stinginess sitting in my hastily made sukkah for which i sacrificed a […]
Women’s Day and Evolutionary Humanism
Ownership is an interesting concept And might be the key To understanding eco-social sustainability; I find it interesting that this concept May be split from political ideology And religious identity For China is communist And capitalist at the same time; America is simultaneously democratic And imperialist Ownership is also split Between sectors And classes And […]
Between Theft and Meat Eating
A new pattern is emerging; I wake up before dawn Write for an hour Or a thousand words Not more For I had been cheating; Pushing myself For I wanted to speed up the process Get to the finishing line For this piecemeal own purpose ‘revelation’ Requires immense patience From one who is always on […]
Va-et’ chanan and Nostra Aetate
Reading the Ten Commandments In this week’s Torah portion It gradually dawned on me That the solution to the challenge Of ‘indissolubility of marriage’ Is right here: Do not commit adultery; When Jesus declared That there was to be no divorce Amongst his followers He was insisting on perfection; He meant that there was to […]
The Desire to Serve All Sentient Beings: 3
What challenging weeks The past three have been; I rebelled Refused to write For what is the point of writing When it goes nowhere? Or even worse, When it potentially threatens my comfort? For after I wrote that modern Israel was started As a safe haven for Jews fleeing from persecution Or potential attack, The […]
The Desire to Serve All Sentient Beings: 2
What is on trail Is not China Is not Trump Is not Bill Gates What is on trail is the way we live What we call Truth What we call God What is on trail is science and technology What is on trail is the scientific community as a whole For science is merely a […]
The Desire to Serve All Sentient Beings: 1
May everything I write Serve all sentient beings; I thought I was doing so Yet the feedback I have received suggests otherwise Have I in an ego dance been? Yes, No doubt I have; I am aware of my ego To a greater extent than I was before Thought of it as friend That kept […]
Messianisms to the West Bank Marching?
How guilty I felt At having lashed out with anger At my ignorance of what I have been part of; For fifty years, And perhaps a little longer, I have been Roman Catholic. For eight years within that I was part of the Dominican Order; I continued as a lay Dominican after that Perhaps still […]
A Pomegranate in the Apple Orchard?
Unknowable Knowing Mystery beyond comprehension I give thanks for the gift of prayer As appeasement; I had no idea How much crucifixes disturbed My youthful mind; How alien they were to my soul I am grateful for my foremothers Who in their wisdom Transformed potential worship of torture Into klippot Husks, shells, that contained your […]
Miriam’s Song of the Sea
It’s time to turn all crucifixes Into ploughshares, Don’t you think? This certainly is what I think… Aren’t you tired of Jewish lives On crosses hanging? Aren’t you tired of racks, Of pulleys Of waterboarding; Of Jewish people in chambers ash-ing? So, for you Who the Risen Lord know not yet I danced to Miriam’s […]