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From Texas To Israel, With G-d's Love
The Poetry of James F. Hill
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the tel-Aviv
Secular heart
for secular Israel.
Sand dune beaches
flowing
with Mediterranean blood
lend life and song
to the Jewish soul.
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1.1.6
Ancient Jericho
City of fallen walls
and Rahab,
whose redemption
opens the pages of faith
to Messiah
and Grace.
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4.17.5
Evicting Gaza
Jews removing Jews
from the land.
Gaza, once again
shifting sand.
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8.18.5
Time,
swept along on human emotion,
becomes a delicate tapestry
woven through the day
then stitched with silver thread
into the night time sky
as proof of its passing.
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1.1.6
Leaving Gaza
for the Peace of Jerusalem.
Walls persuade secular man
to move earth
and leave Heaven
for the piety of angels.
One day soon
Philistines will appear
a new clan of Judah.
Walls will fall
in heaps of broken pride.
Gaza will arise
On a Spirit of Grace
no longer the sea people
of Delilah’s heart.
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5.28.5
Zion
(ism)
Jerusalem hill,
pregnant
with
Jewish history.
Laboring
to
birth G-d’s vision
of
a complete people,
Abraham’s
children,
wed
to the land
and
each other.
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jfrancis
1.31.6
April 17, 2006
(tel
aviv)
The sirens call
and duty demands
come
now is the time
to give eternity
our heroes.
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4.17.6
Time Machine
(imagine)
Twelve moons have loosed
the pearly chains of gravity
to send the sea back,
back to it's tidal rest
past the gately towers
of Queensboro's
rich and stately spires,
back to strawberry fields
and imaginary time
of peace and love
when lyric and rhyme
mesmerized the mind.
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Poetic
Inspiration
fuels the spirit
accelerates the
mind
producing a rush
of literary
brilliance*,
word on word,
in perfect order
a collage
of sensory
expression
painting the
mind
with surreal
images.
jfrancis
4.16.6
note: ‘brilliance’ is a relative term.
Back to Genesis
Intelligent
designer clouds
dripping
moisture,
the milk of
heaven
and honey of
earth,
covering
a multitude of
sinners
who wait
for the latter
reign
of heaven’s
creator
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8.13.6
Surrogate
Victim
The pungent
drip of victory
leaks from vein
and life
across cobbled
concrete,
a gift
from free
radicals
to the cellular
life
of Lebanon.
jfrancis
8.20.6
The Time of Benaya's Rain
The poetic
form of prayer found on a dead
IDF soldier
named Benaya Rein.
May
your dear will,
G-d
and L-rd of our fathers,
erase war
and spilling of blood evermore.
Overshadow this world
with great
and wonderful peace,
that nations
learn war no more,
neither hatred, deceit
or spitefulness.
Let
all residents of earth
know ultimate truth:
that we come
to this world
to recognize and know G-d,
the blessed one
of Israel.
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‘Baby’
is
the space
between two hearts.
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10.3.6
Reflections
Death
is
an accumulation
of
insults
to
the human
spirit/body.
Jfrancis©
6.27.7
Natural
Reflection
We are He
who designed us
in His image
to explore
His infinite
Design.
jfrancis
1.28.8
Stripped
Gaza___
is her people,
sons and daughters
washed ashore
for the aged land
to imprison
with the sand
at their feet.
jfrancis
1.18.8
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The Poor
We have with us always,
G-d’s masterpiece
of creation,
the backdrop
of all humanity
without which
the bright stars
no longer shine,
a bridge between
Love and Charity.
jfrancis
2.22.8
On Holocaust Day
How do we
measure
memories,
laid end to end,
across creation’s
timelessness?
One by one
into the face of eternity.
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