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  • Setting up a link for you is easy...

    ...producing the MP3 (or the WMA) is what would take time. Be careful what you wish for...my singing voice (especially a capella) ought to be presented to the current Administration as an aid in interrogating suspected terrorists. (For proof, check out some of the YouTube videos here.) wr ()()
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on April 2, 2008
  • "The Bow (David's Elegy)" - Repost: Any comments?

    (המקרא) ''The Bow'': David's Elegy (YouTube)by White_Rabbit 03/03/2008, 11:18 AM Here is my latest slideshow of biblical Hebrew poetry (or more exactly, melopoesis). It features David's Elegy for Saul and Jonathan, aka ''The Bow'' (2 Samuel 1:19-27), with Hebrew text, Latinized transliteration and English translation. The Hebrew word in the ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on March 11, 2008
  • (המקרא) "The Bow": David's Elegy (YouTube)

    Here is my latest slideshow of biblical Hebrew poetry (or more exactly, melopoesis). It features David's Elegy for Saul and Jonathan, aka ''The Bow'' (2 Samuel 1:19-27), with Hebrew text, Latinized transliteration and English translation. The Hebrew word in the title of this post, ha-Miqra (המקרא), is different from the shalom (שלום) I've been ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on March 3, 2008
  • (שלום) My upcoming trip to Jerusalem

    Fellow Poems Fraysters, Not many of you know that I will be departing at the end of December for an extended trip -- most of which will be spent in Jerusalem, Israel. The following blog summarizes the trip as it stands now (and you should be able to read the blog, given the settings I have on the page). While the primary purpose is to attend a ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on December 19, 2007
  • "Is this your proof?" :)

    (as the Talmudists would say about such a non sequitur) Hey, I not only know a number of Yiddish words, but quite a bit of Hebrew. Since when does that make me Jewish? (Not that I would mind, quite the contrary!) Don't tell me...let me guess...you're from the absurdist school of poets. (With a name like TheNairobiTrio, I suppose that's no ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on October 18, 2007
  • And then there were TWO YouTube channels...:)

    Dear Fraysters, I hope this doesn't become a trend, and that my YouTube channels don't start multiplying like Fibonacci's rabbits. Anyway, for various reasons I have found it advisable to separate what has become my personal YouTube channel from what has become my (brand-new) dedicated YouTube channel. My six revised slideshows of Suzanne ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on August 30, 2007