Band aids are helpful
but not for open chest wounds
We'll need more than that

For as long as I
can remember I have been
quite particular

I worry about
my blind spots which I can't see
- which is all of them

It is beneath you
but that is not to say that
you are over it

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The mouth's tongue undone
time and again by the tongue
of the walking shoe

Excited then gone
that didn't last very long
I guess I was wrong

Living in my head
may be the main thing you do
in regard to me

Haiku of Darkness

It's time to breathe out
lie down, embrace the darkness
and call it a night

Just like a haiku
self proclaimed haiku masters
should not be too dark

I've named him Cliche'
the inside me enemy
my so called dark side

It starts with darkness
emptiness and unformed voids
...and G-d hovering...

Time to go outside
to face the darkness and cold.
It's time to head home

Light of Our Light, till
it shines like the morning sun-
brighten our darkness.

Darkness of the heart
can set in at any time.
It's wise to prepare.

Light, darkness, and peace-
some of your best work, thank you:
G-d, King of the world

I need to meet with,
the me that's me and not me
see my shadow me

Sunset to sunrise
that darkness is all we have
in between two days

Covered in darkness
the world becomes enlightened
by the word of G-d

Only through darkness

can there be light in contrast

up on center stage

Just like a haiku

self proclaimed haiku masters

should not be too dark

Kudos to HaikuHorizons

If you have to say
then it might not be the case
like, "I'm self aware."

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I can think I can say
My parents are done dying
Then I see I can't

*** I like these

Take a look around
Gratefulness goes up and down
Though blessings abound

Collect my caution
from the wind, that's what I did,
after that I hid.

Episodes connect
for me- in my mind, my life,
a continuum.

17 Tamuz

The Temple means more
than we are able to grasp
-still, we have to try.

At least for today
His House deserves our crying
And some holding back.

More is often more
But sometimes the old saying
Is true: less is more.

It's a good thing that
Adam was attracted to 
Eve or we'd be dead

Tree Haiku

On the tree's branches
Bayside, 1970
Burnt Tefillin boxes

She hears a tree cry
She hears tears everywhere
But mostly the tree

Kudos to Haiku Horizons

1089-1096: Wall Haiku

A fly on the wall
is not what I want to be
I see too much now

Holy Temple Wall
over years you've seen it all
here I am with you

Holiness of friends
like the Western Wall itself
hovers and protects

Something beyond you
Beyond me and all of us
Supports me; my wall.

I breathe in chaos
I breathe out and knock it down -
The wall blocking peace

Walls can be broken

climbed over, or walked around

embraced obstacles

If I build a wall
then it's fair I pay for it
- goes for everyone.

Walls make me wonder

where do I lean my ladder
at least ideally

Kudos to Haiku Horizons

Birth parents and blood
A homelife only we knew
and yet vast distance

1087

I hear the silence
and I speak the unspoken
and I want you to(o)

I question questions
Am hesitant to ask them
More-so to answer