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Poetry || SubmissionsThree poems by Tom BermanThe Last PeacockHoning in from groveand darkened hill shattering the evening comes the cry of the peacock they were three strolling down the long tree isles tails asplay, proud peacocks in the sun of their splendor untutored in the ways of foxes, unknowing of wildcats roving dogs, mongooses adders in trees now the lone peacock cries for company seeking answer from a callous moon indifferent canopy of stars I have no response to the questing cry of the last peacock. Yom Kippur, Upper Galilee, 2004The day sits broodingunder a bare stone hill summer parched expectant for rain time slows a pace a breeze floats by birds at their vespers pray over fields and patient woods elsewhere in the news-real-world events happen: terror, floods elections, football mayhem and madness all is flux day to day here, I listen to the sky and take comfort in the falling of a leaf Bedtime IdyllYou lie beside mequietly turning the pages of your book in vain I seek to read between your lines, interpreting your breaths in the silence between us slowly you turn each page our love spins by idly as on a reel-to-reel tape you close your book, put out the light Is it past midnight? Tom Berman writes: 'I have been a member of Kibbutz Amiad in the Upper Galilee, Israel for over 50 years. I am a scientist and most of my research has been focused on the Sea of Galilee (a.k.a. Lake Kinneret). I grew up in Glasgow, Scotland having arrived there aged 5 from Czechoslovakia with the Kindertransport in 1939. University education was in the U.S. I am married with one wife, three daughters, five granddaughters and a grandson. My poetry has been published here and there, now and again. Amazon.com are still trying to dispose of a book of my poems (Shards, a Handful of Verse). Presently, I am Editor in Chief of the annual Voices Israel Anthology. Write to him at berman@amiad.org.il More poetry at Ariga by Tom Berrman: Poems by Tom Berman and Upper Galilee poet Tom Berman Today's Situation
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