I received this email yesterday 20160212 from Don Strempel Greetings in Israel’s Hope! About 20 years ago, you (Don) and Bro. Jeff Berry authored an article in the Lampstand Magazine about Youth Aliyah. I came across this article and was hoping that we might be able to have a bit of a discussion about […]
Category: Other Writing
The Whippoorwill – lyrics
WHIPPOORWILL Words and music by Cal De Voll Chicago: Forster Music Pub. Inc., ©1930. 1. Ev’ry night I close my eyes and off to Paradise I stray, Dreaming dreams of yesterday. Seems I hear a whippoorwill upon a hill so far away Calling me; that’s why I say: CHORUS: There’s a whippoorwill sweetly singing in […]
Beautiful Ohio – Lyrics
Beautiful Ohio Lyrics Sung by Henry Burr (scroll down to enjoy the video) Intro I sailed away; Wandered afar; Crossed the mighty restless sea; Looked for where I ought to be. Cities so grand, mountains above, Led to this land I love. Chorus Beautiful Ohio, where the golden grain Dwarf the lovely flowers in the […]
A Blue-Tongued Lizard
She’s a blue tongued lizard and she suns herself, On a rock near a log; in our yard by the shed. If the dog’s awake she’s not to be found, You’d think she’d finally fled underground. Grandpa would say our garden was blessed, To have its own bluetongue; to make a warm nest, In the […]
A voice
The Hitchhiker
THE HITCH HIKER Beside the road Shirt draped brow Dreaming, waiting, hoping. Elle or Julie? Car door open Dreaming, hoping waiting. Woman driving Interest lively Dinner in the town Travel on reading letters, laughing on the phone. About a dragon and a lady a battle hardly won. About a child and a meeting when traveling […]
My daughter
How beautiful is my daughter, how exquisitely, poignantly beautiful! She sees me now, she lifts her hand, languidly, she on the river, I on the verge. Why is there pain in beauty? Why do tears fall in happiness? This child-woman, part of me and yet separate, with secrets known to her alone, sits slowly drifting, […]