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Soda
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Username: Soda
Post Number: 2377
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 19, 2005 - 2:54 pm: |     |
M O R E J E W I S H H A I K U
(no authorship claimed)
After the warm rain
the sweet smell of camellias.
Did you wipe your feet?
*****
Her lips near my ear,
Aunt Sadie whispers the name
of her friend's disease.
*****
Today I am a man.
Tomorrow I will return
to the seventh grade.
*****
Testing the warm milk
on her wrist, she sighs softly.
But her son is forty.
*****
The sparkling blue sea
reminds me to wait an hour
after my sandwich.
*****
lacking fins or tail
the gefilte fish swims with
great difficulty.
*****
Like a bonsai tree,
your terrible posture
at my dinner table.
*****
Beyond Valium,
the peace of knowing one's child
is an internist.
*****
Jews on safari --
map, compass, elephant gun,
hard sucking candies.
****
The same kimono
the top geishas are wearing:
I got it at Loehmann's.
*****
The shivah visit:!
so sorry about your loss.
Now back to my problems.
****
Mom please! There is no
need to put that dinner roll
in your pocketbook.
*****
Seven-foot Jews in
the NBA slam-dunking!
My alarm clock rings.
*****
Sorry I'm not home
to take your call. At the tone
please state your bad news.
*****
Is one Nobel Prize
so much to ask from a child
ater all I've done?
*****
Today, mild shvitzing.
Tomorrow, so hot you'll plotz.
Five-day forecast: feh.
*****
(for Passover)
Left the door open
for the Prophet Elijah.
Now our cat is gone.
****
Yenta. Shmeer. Gevalt.
Shlemiel. Shlimazl. Meshuganah
Oy! To be fluent!
***
Quietly murmured
at Saturday services,
Yanks 5, Red Sox 3.
****
A lovely nose ring,
excuse me while I put my
head in the oven.
****
Hard to tell under the lights.
White Yarmulke? or
male-pattern baldness. |
mjc
Citizen
Username: Mjc
Post Number: 158
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Wednesday, January 19, 2005 - 4:58 pm: | |
Soda, I LOVE them.
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kathy
Citizen
Username: Kathy
Post Number: 1038
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 20, 2005 - 5:01 pm: | |
I love them also. My favorite is the safari one--my mother-in-law never goes anywhere without a supply of hard sucking candies.
However, on the authorship question, I must point out that all of these are from the book Haikus for Jews by David M. Bader. He also wrote Zen Judaism. |
Soda
Supporter
Username: Soda
Post Number: 2394
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 20, 2005 - 5:06 pm: | |
Thanks, Kathy. I rely on you for this kinda stuff.
-s. |
kathy
Citizen
Username: Kathy
Post Number: 1039
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 20, 2005 - 5:17 pm: | |
Soda, Always happy to oblige.
P.S. The kid finally graduated! |
jem
Citizen
Username: Jem
Post Number: 1148
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 20, 2005 - 7:07 pm: | |
I can't think of a better place to say Mazal Tov! (except, of course, in person.) |
Soda
Supporter
Username: Soda
Post Number: 2398
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, January 20, 2005 - 9:08 pm: | |
Kathy: Huzzah! Now I've gotta check his blog!
-s.
BTW: My oldest left this morning for Puerto Rico, where she intends to spend the next six months on her own. But that's a whole nother story...
Empty Nestitude Beckons.
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