Poems For The Week Of Tiferet

Chesed she b’Tiferet: Be The Holy

 

Find where absence is

closest    step into the sea

of breath    of beauty

 

 

Gevurah she b’Tiferet

 

When I flow over

the shore  silver fish  beauty’s 

eyes call me homeward

 

 

Tiferet she b’Tiferet

 

we are beauty born

through lilac  fallen blossoms 

breath breathing breath    sighs

 

 

Netzach she b'Tiferet    #1

 

Abundance our first 

teacher   wherever the milk 

flows from we arrive

 

 

Netzach she b’Tiferet.  #2

 

justice compassion

breathe through us beauty

aching to become 

 

 

Hod she b’ Tiferet

 

I drift on beauty’s

waters, delight my sail map 

my song   cup of joy 

 

 

A Recipe    A Meditation   For Yesod She B’’tiferet   For

Yes

breathe me

sing me

through bones and muscles

hollows and bowls

in this spinning clay moment

aspiration   inspiration,

orchestration

tuned and tuning

a single instrument

mine  yours  a harp

played by the

fingers of wind

whirled and woven through

the sighing bodies

first and last breaths

   in pain and joy

intimate   distant

We who live between

the yearning of the lower waters

for the upper  are the

prayers of the revealed   the concealed

in rot and blossom  ignorance

   and fleeting delicious

   knowing  each of us

an intentional planting

and also all that falls

arriving from bird

and distant mountain

field and forest.

We who are

the over flow   the empty

offer our voices

discordant   harmonizing

each of us a nigun

sung by beauty

owning   crafting

our rising   our falling     

we who never end

who are wandering off

leaving our names for

invocation for compassion

for justice

which might look like lilac  apple

sound and fall like spring rain

meeting the hungry

seed by seed