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  • (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

  • 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