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Re: "A Place in Maine" (short review & HOTR)
Lunesta:Fine, fine job, you Master Parodist, you. It almost hurts me, ''quite pity'' to read your parody (well-done as it is...) because I am aching for that seemingly unloved (and forgotten?) mother. (The contrast with my own happy situation as ''mere et puis plus'' makes me hurt more for her, too.) You really are so good at this, WR. Have to ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on May 7, 2008
(יוחנן רכב) Bin Laden and the Taliban
This is a reprint, and not without flaws, but I won't revise it now. (Yes, I know ''the Taliban'' is plural.) BIN LADEN AND THE TALIBAN(with profuse apologies to Lewis Carroll) The carriers were on the sea,Steaming with all their might;Planes did their very best to makeOld Kabul smooth and bright-And things looked dark, because it wasThe middle ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on April 28, 2008
(יוחנן רכב) Snow in Jerusalem
SNOW IN JERUSALEM(January 30, 2008)*Snow comes as rarely as peaceto this place of golden stone.Time’s ruinous tides comingnow in waves, now in tsunamis,have made the layers of historythick, intermingled, confusingin buildings and peoples alike.One more white layer on topand the city shuts down from the weight.For one icy, fast-melting daythe ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on April 21, 2008
(יוחנן רכב) "Love When Lost"
This poem was submitted to the Poems Fray in 2002 by our inscrutible Permanent Archivist, Johanan Rakkav. It is (so far as we know) his one and only attempt to date to write in iambic pentameter. wr ()() ===================== LOVE WHEN LOST I wish that love when lost could be regained Like missing pencils tucked behind the ears, Or ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on April 8, 2008
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 best part is...
...the song is completely original (melody, arrangement, MIDI sequencing, and MIDI-to-MP3 transfer)! ()() Angel: That's so sweet! I almost couldn't pick it up though -- the ''dot'' was missing from the ''dot'' com. I'll do a link below for you. <link> You're the best, bunny. Angel Thanks for the correction! The song Hey, ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on March 12, 2008
Y'all might want to rethink that schedule...
(Johanan Rakkav is filling the chair of the night shift over at the Triumvirate, and thinks this is worth his assessment as a theologian...wr) The projection of (fill in the blank) billion years is based on the assumption that the Designer won't intervene first. He will -- and a whole lot sooner than that. One result is that we will have ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on March 12, 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
Pictures of the snowfall
Thank you for the reply -- well-said in its turn. Meanwhile, you may find the photos given on Israel National News interesting, small though they are. If you go to my blog and find today's update to it, you'll find a link to INN (aka Arutz-7) as well as back to my Slate poem. wr ()()
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on January 31, 2008

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