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Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2005 15:08:05 -0800 (PST)
From: "Lenore Weiss"
Subject: Re: submission_Lenore Weiss
Lenore Weiss wrote:
HI: I am submitting three poems: Invocation of the Dead, Tsunami, and Passover 2004.
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Passover 2004
Lashanah haba'ah b'Yerushalayim!
Next year I don't want to be in Jerusalem
because why would I choose to be in a land
of war and death where children
blow themselves up because they have no future?
Next year I don't want to be in Jerusalem
because I don't understand why the Israeli government
continues to sacrifice the interests of its own people
at every checkpoint.
Next year I don't want to be in Jerusalem
because I can't continue telling a story about renewal
when I only see a land filled with shredded skin
and bulldozed olive trees.
Next year I don't want to be in Jerusalem
because how can I pretend this isn't happening
like some media cover-up that's come to occupy
my heart with its lies?
Next year I only want to be in Jerusalem with you
to fill an extra cup of wine at the table
for our Palestinian brothers and sisters,
so we may share the stories of those who died
so we may all set ourselves free from fear and hatred.
Source: Come Untogether (2004)
This poem won:
1st Muses Prize - Best Poem of Year 2004-Female
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Lenore Weiss
http://home.earthlink.net/~lpweiss/menu.html
Lenore Weiss lives in Oakland, California where she runs a Web site for a transportation company. She also serves as the Middle East Peace Coordinator for Kehilla Community Synagogue. In 2003, she was named as a finalist in the Poet & Writers "California Voices" contest. Her poetry has been published in Paterson Literary Review, Raven Chronicles, Canadian Women Studies Journal, Blue Collar Review, FrogPond, Praxis, Room, Androgyne, Verbum, Mosaic, The Graybook, The Louisville Review, Contemporary Women Poets, Tunnel Road, and Alpha Beat Soup. Periodically, her poems are featured at:
http://www.poetrymagazine.com/archives/2004/Winter4-5/Current/weissl.htm and http://corpse.org/issue_14/new_economics/weiss.html
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