#BlogElul Day 4

Understand

  

      After watching 

      the Republican National Convention

                   I can’t understand 

the accolades, the praise 

the parade of toadies

the lies, the painting

of  the other as dangerous

How do they excuse lies

How do they defend 

twisted words, a rewrite of reality

Don’t they hear the sound of steel boots

Don’t they know history 

Don’t they hear screaming rhetoric,

repetition of words, of framing

the other with symbols of fear

I hear the footfalls 

What don’t they see

What don’t they hear

What don’t they understand

about where we are heading

Their vision ignores the signposts

#BlogElul Day 16

Pray

I listen to G-D’s voice

when wind brushes against grass,

when waves gather momentum 

before spending their foam

on a shore dotted with Sandpipers

I see G-D’s hand in orange and red

hoodoos reaching upward—

becoming a cathedral of spires

I stretch my hand until my fingers 

touch layers 

of sandstone, shale, and limestone—

a story two billion years old

I inhale the aroma of rain washed herbs

I pray to this G-d of creation

#BlogElul Day 14

 Learn

Listen to silence

and hear the past 

View abandoned junctures

buried under slabs of time

that haunt the present

and wait for light,

for a chance to shake

off layers of neglect