This document contains several poems exploring themes of spirituality, Judaism, and love. It references biblical figures like David and images from Passover traditions. The poems use vivid sensory language to describe scents, sights, and textures. Recurring imagery includes golden strings, towers of strength, and turning or cycles of renewal. Overall, the document presents a collection of spiritual and romantic poems reflecting on Jewish traditions, history, and faith.

1. Golden String
Tower of Strength/ City of Refuge cards
A Golden String from David’s harp

2. A Golden String
from David’s Harp
You are a golden string
from David’s harp
You are a golden string
from David’s harp; joining everything
together with strength, with a
powerful glue…that joins this day,
a weekday; that joins this day,
the Holy Shabbat; in our bodies sung-
in our souls strung-together...with
wisdom-with the ability (le hav cheen) to
judge the difference, the depth...
the join, between…the mundane and the
Holy...
and the mundane

3. Golden String
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Song of Songs

4. …Olive oil, finely beaten, spun between the golden
weight of the infinite lime stones of the press;
pressing virgin sighs back into amber colored
bottles of prayer beads, squeezed between fingers
oozing henna from the painted signature of the
betrothal party, smelling on the desert wind a crest
of scent and smile from the East…black kohl rimmed
eyes shining out from the small shining
brown body of my infant love, naked except for the
scarlet amulet
The scarlet amulet wrapped around his wrist and ankle to
ward off the sailing blue eye.
The black-liquid pools/eyes of obsidian
melted and grown hot again-melting the kohl ringed
protection and magic swirls of the trumpeting sheik-racing his
camel against the East-West-North-South.
The sheep of his flock, rich cream/
his loves breasts, cushions sitting on heaps of lapis lazuli;
the hills on which
his tent is pitched

5. Tower of Strength/ City of Refuge cards
Eve before the Seder
The Eve before the Eve of Pessach-
I love to wander through the streets and alleys of
Jerusalem.
I make the rounds to all the restaurants…to the humble
falafel stand…on the corner of Ben Yehuda and Hillel
Street-to the grand façade and glitter of…Kinoor David
What makes this night different from …any other night?
Tonight, humble or grand-close to midnight, and for long
hours afterwards-

6. the restaurant owners and chefs, have emptied out their
pantries, laying or
tumbling their huge copper pans and pots out onto
the streets-laying them out onto the cobbled streets,
or inner courtyards-each and every one engaged in an
immense labor-scouring the huge pots and pans, and
cauldrons-with scalding, steaming water-bending
their backs to their work of cleansing the cookware
for the coming-seven days, and seven nights- the stiff
wire brushes that they’re using, to polish the
gleaming pots into-an even more gleaming order
(Seder) Tonight-Jerusalem- not Jerusalem of
Gold; but gleaming down long streets,
down hidden- winding alleys and cul-
de-sacs…
the shine and early morning song of a-
Jerusalem of brass and copper, shining: Jerusalem of
brass and copper, shining

7. Golden String
The Tower of Strength/ City of Refuge photo poem s
The Angel
of Death…will
Passover
under the fig tree

8. The Tower of Strength/ City of
Refuge photo poem s
Feast of the Un-pursued
You know how much I love you.
It was me personally, who painted on an arc of blood
over your door, so that you would be spared the
death of the first born on this night… The Angel of
Death…will brush your door with her wings in

9. passing….but my love, will keep you safe…will lead you
out the door, and will set you on your way, onto the path
that you must go…
Take a few deep breaths, and feel me around you, as you
drink
the various glasses of wine tonight.
Take deep breathes and feel me touching you…on the
shoulder… on the forehead.
I am making invisible reminder markings, there in
reminder that you were born to lead…and not to follow.
Golden String
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City of Refuge cards
An

10. Identifying Acrostic
.
.A globed journey through dimensions of time and place……..
.was to be the measured fate of my search of self….
.and it was not to be easy; whether in contemplated rush out of harms
way or….
.nun’s ignorance of grand papa’s circumcising hidden Torah
treasure…
.deemed worthy to be kept safe at all costs-as it was Ben Maimon’s
own…
.ever comforting from the secret hidden behind sweet Rachel’s
bosom…
.racked by torture and rapture each in turn, but saved, safe…
.invested with the knowledge handed down from her forefather’s exiled
heart…
.never losing sight of the eternal light beaming down upon my
countenance…
.grounded and turned to the East, toward Jerusalem

11. …..Jewel beyond all gems is my belief and my need
….ever lifting my sights and my goals, deeper and higher
….wasted not in an embers glowing soul

12. Golden String
The Tower of Strength/ City of Refuge photo poem s
In need we are of turning...
In need we are of turning...
and in the short, curt, blasting echoes,
of the shofar

13. the day turns,
the night turns
…the leaf turns,
the boat turns (over)…
edges turn and show open
hands, flat open faces.
Endings
turn into beginnings…beginnings
turn again on themselves…the season turns, the year
turns...the wheel turns, the world turns…the man turns, the
woman turns…the child turns…and God returns

14. Your face-is the crown of Solomon
to my
unveiled
Sheba