Yehiel E. Poupko
Suffer the little children...
To the ghettoes
Warsaw, Vilne, Lodz, Lublin
Then little children were brought to Jesus
Sara, Rebecca, Leah, Rachel
...
After Eden
Where are the days
especially the six
that gave us light and dark
that we might lose sight
only to see
the waters divide
above and here
to split
...
Several sorrows ago
Several sorrows ago
Before grief came to echo and voice
And tears to a pulsing spring,
Several sorrows ago
Before the poem
And portrait
Dared word meaning
...
after a baby’s death
before i was
and after i am not,
light lustrous
only light
and the One,
from beginning to beginning
i am,
as she died
the light gutters,
...
So Job died old and full of days
Crammed and jammed
Bursting with days
Job died old and full of days
So here is how it goes
I am walking down
wet and muddy stony
really stony alleys
of the Warsaw cemetery
Jewish that is
just by the ghetto
once here and ever,
reading those stones,...
Land grant: Israel and the promises of God
Neither Jews nor Christians (except for some evangelicals) were theologically prepared for the 20th-century return of the Jewish people to sovereignty in their ancient homeland of Israel....