9 Months In
July 8th, 2024
For months on end
My heart bleeding prose
Lyrics and phrases pushing their way
Through the cracks in my facade
Miriam Roskind
December 18, 2024
Tag: poetry
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Inflation
May 13th, 2024
Inflation means the cost of living continues to increase
I never thought I’d see such high inflation in my time
I don’t think I can afford this cost
Miriam Roskind
December 15, 2024
He’s No Hero, Please
March 27th, 2024
My son’s not a hero was her first thought
He’s just a kid
His smelly shoes
His messy room
And a constant smirk on his face
Miriam Roskind
December 15, 2024
The Family That Loves Together
October 17, 2023
Families stay together
They learned when they were little
On holidays, on weekend trips
Because alone we’re just too brittle
Families stay together
They all continued saying
Miriam Roskind
December 15, 2024
Writing from home
Yona
I rise above you higher than any of you would yearn to reach
Above the throngs of congregating people
Crying, grieving, trying to make sense
From your view on the ground.
But my view is vast
And open.
417 days I lay hovering in the shadow of God
But now I see rays of light above the clouds
No shadow
Just God.
Hila Bar
November 27, 2024
The Bibas Family Haiku Project
The characters will be a mother (Imma) and her two young sons in honor of the mother Shiri Bibas and her two sons, Kfir and Ariel, brutally ripped from their home in Israel and taken hostage by Hamas terrorists where they have been held apart from their father Yarden Bibas (also a hostage) in the labyrinthine tunnels of Gaza since 7 October 2023 and continuing.
Jessica Ursell
November 27, 2024
Soldiering On
More empty chairs than not
We’ll sit at the table alone
But how can we bemoan our fate
When our children could still come home
Miriam Roskind
October 5, 2024
Writing from the warfront
October’s Ashes
Through smoky dawn,
a soldier stands,
in Israel’s land.
Courage demands,
he treads on ashes,
October’s ashes,
the fallen’s remains.
Estee Olga Shapiro
September 27, 2024
Writing from work
First Shabbos of the War
O sheltered pundits
and tenured humanists
who have been
posting and tweeting
how you feel bad
for Israel,
but all the same…
I say to you, my colleagues,
as Hamas Einsatzgruppen
Maxim D. Shrayer
August 28, 2024
Say Their Names
Agam
Daniella
Karina
Liri
Naama
five vibrant
vital flowers
beginning bloom
surveilling their field
Jessica Ursell
August 22, 2024