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Poetry || SubmissionsFour Poems by Hagy AverbuchPrayers On a balcony eating lunch with a friend The sea breeze salting our bread closing my eyes for a moment Thank you for this. * My friend asleep in the dark. Shutters half-shut thick dew-veils filtering in covering mirrors wrapping - glistening apples black. An hour later: Raising a naked arm gazing as sunrise stripes it light-phylacteries. * No candles. No scrolls. Shabat. Soon I'll go home and be asked: "Where did you pray this morning?" No Synagogue. Early risen sea. cool wavelets play with my shadow moving lips not reflected: just the human frame. The shadow of kneeling is formless. A rock. Pray like a pebble. This Haydn Piano concerto is a sleigh-ride Airy music down the hill gracefully falling Escapist finger play so much hard labour and years of practice all this for me to press a button Ride away from the world I guess composers got tired of writing delicate sermons for this smiling congregation. "Can I change the music?" "sure" Britten's war-requiem I deserved that lesson. Parsifal The lights dimmed Hermann levi raised his baton Halted. The wagner mantra: You're going to conduct - my Parsifal you can't be a jew submit to baptism. Thick un-soothing strains building a temple of music Blood pounding temples ache hold on. First, second, third round Final bars Gonging afterwards He heard the audience chatting of their evening entertainment. He stayed a jew, you know. To A capricious lover Walk with me this dusty road a while Let sunset's screen make silhouettes of us both and whistling desert wind sing of our lot, That we have loved..Love, Walk with me a while. Our kisses, love, had many a backdrop seen River, forest, waterfall and lake Our love has left the world its golden wake.. One served as fool, the other - actor been: Tears and Compassion - were they more than guile - to keep you from the loneliness you fought? And friendship, love, oh, did you not defile - by stressing more than what your heart has taught? love.. walk with me this dusty road a while and then walk on, and I shall follow not. My name is Hagy Averbuch. I live in israel, and I write in Hebrew and English. You can write to Hagy c/o hagayavb@netvision.net.il Today's Situation
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