Poems For The Week Of Chesed

Chesed in Chesed

 

under waterfall

grief emptied glass spills kindness

over-flowing well

 

 

 

Gevurah in Chesed

 

loving kindness flows

shapes shores of limited mind

seeks low ground. finds me

 

 

 

Tiferet in Chesed

 

drops of river   cups

of sea   beauty   body’s 

tidal receiving

 

 

 

Netzach in Chesed

 

Will it endure  clay

bones   kindness   spring’s swift 

river  remembers

 

Netzach In Chesed

 

Chesed fills and runs

through our passages -

skeleton, lungs, heart,  

waters always separating

and returning, exile of

sea and sky remembered

in our blood. 

 

So we endure

the forces

until the time

comes to dissolve-

tenacious and tender human

forms like mountains,

rock, riverbeds.

 

When we cry oceans 

consume our tears, 

tidal salt recalls 

our landed loneliness.

 

 

 

Hod in Chesed

 

She weeps pink cascades

single tree’s solution to

limitless delight

 

Another Hod In Chesed

 

She is weeping pink

cascades, this tree shaping grief

into gratitude

 

Yesod in Chesed

 

I am tree   red winged

on her way to becoming

abundance flowing

 

 

Malchut in Chesed

 

Whose body   whose dream

whose wings  resting on mother

tree  lifting us home

 

 

Friendship and Grief: Malchut  she b’Chesed

The smells of malchut

a purple misting of potted

hyacinth while the promises 

of roses, lilac

gather by my open door -

I grieve the sisters

I never had while

left with the mother

I did, a lifetime of 

hope and stumblings in the

peaks and valleys of friendships

bouquets of sisters,

time bound and precious -

some might root still

in this season’s 

garden