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An Absence in Jerusalem

I have created this group as a safe place to discuss and share the HUMAN experience of the Isreali-Palestinian situation. As political as the foundation of the conflict may be, this group is a place to cross the divide in human terms.

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Voices of Silence

This group is directly inspired from the reaction in iPeace today on the posting of the poem An Absence in Jerusalem. The poem was written following the death of Yassar Arafat and was the expression of how the middle east war zone, which shaped my childhood and adolescence just as profoundly as the apartheid violence in which I grew up, had cut into the 'shoreline of my heart' and my perception of violence, war, aggression, dissidence, terrorism, repression, propaganda, ideology, alienation and dehumanisation of the soul.
iPeace and mepeace live along side one another in parallel universes and it is my goal to facilitate here, a lounge in which the individuals may once more find resonance and meaning. As a poet, the significance how this poem, which is my personal reflection on the tragedy of what is being lost of humanity in this particular, but in any conflict, touched individuals here today, signifies that people are hungry to share, to be heard, to be embraced, to forgive and be forgiven. More than this, Absence in Jerusalem, is a pause in the window of each of our lives, a moment to reflect on our own fears, prejudices, desires and hopes. I would like the poem to be the meeting place of tolerance, discussion, compassion but most of all, a reflection of how fragile our humanity is irrespective of where ever we live, how ever we suffer, love, learn, celebrate and aspire to be the best we were born to become. (September 24, 2008 at 10:18pm)

(Thanks to co administrator of this group David Gould for first posting the poem here..)
Voices of Silence
…of an absence in Jerusalem..

The voices of silence
say it was an easy slaughter:
not even the grapevines
turned their heads away
in quiet dismay....

Skins, perturbed like sour cream
line the edges of the mind
aligned with beds asleep
across the horizon barren of shepards
and their sheep...

Young smiles run dry
and pave your homecoming shunning
thick embraces sodden in the sap of persuasion
where fattened promises drop like
brittle on their tongues

There of a past we no longer occupy
we stole the urgency in their eyes
and from the hip faked such loving
between slack breasts
they could not see the hate for coming

like missiles from birthing crotch
that shook the desert into frozen heat
turning anger into swarming plagues
and life into wet ash cursedly buried in bare feet

And we turn our backs in shame
Up against the executioner’s wall
But all tenderness hung out from the gallows
Fall as dead snakes wrapped in bougainvillea
Fuchsia against the inevitable tongue in foreign drawl

And in the shadows of jerusalem
Voices of the slaughter
speak in the silence of tomorrow
steerless as gazes lost on a winter's chill
tugging up at a defunct sun
and grapevines die for lack of love and innuendo.
©R.Sigel from The Roundabout Years.

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Comment by David Gould on January 20, 2009 at 2:39am
Afterwards

Now at last the guns are silent
and bombs have ceased to fall.
But who can say who has won
or whether its course has run.

We see the rubble piled up high
I can see people walking about.
But all we have is present pain
and hope it never starts again.

Hopelessness in each child’s eye
this fear that may never recede
there’s hunger that has no pillow
there’s tears now for this sorrow.

How is it that people survived
all among this dusty dry hell?
While shots were fired all around
filling the air with deathly sound.


This flattened world is all broken,
see these pile after pile of bricks
hiding all the human biographies
concealing where each body lies.

And now the real talking must start
and former positions be put aside;
this thirst for war now must cease.
There’s no alternative to peace.

David © 19th January 2009
Comment by Saggi_tario on January 18, 2009 at 9:18am
Join me in my prayer @ "A writing that needs you to put a title on it…" to cure the War.. at http://www.ipeace.me/profiles/blogs/a-writing-that-needs-you-to

(p/s: nah.. u dont really have to give it a title.. ;o))

in the name of Love

Saggitario
Comment by myron joshua on January 16, 2009 at 12:59pm
Thanks jacky.
Comment by Jacky on January 16, 2009 at 12:51pm
A friend wrote this poem out of despair and I would like to share it with you all. It is called "Did Anyone In Gaza Play Tennis Today?"

Did anyone in Gaza play tennis today,
did anyone go for a swim?
Did anyone go for a walk down the street,
or shop in the mall at a whim?
Did anyone go to the mosque or to school,
or just wander around outside?
How bout doing the wash or watching the news,
instead of finding a place to hide.
No tennis or swimming or walking or shopping,
more important things to do today,
like surviving the bombs and calming the crying,
no time for idle play.
What food there is is not enough,
and the water is gone or going.
The only thing that's certain is
the bombing isn't slowing.
Hospitals can't cope with all the wounded,
the dying and the pain.
And all attempts to stop this slaughter
are until now, in vain.
What did ordinary people with ordinary lives do,
to create so much hate?
Are they supposed to think that this
is simply their fate?
No bombs or rockets or tanks or guns
can ever bring anyone peace.
The rage that's planted from obscenity like this
will simply never cease.
Has nothing been learned from the pain of the past
of the futility of war?
Or is man's inhumanity to man
something in everyone's core?
So now I weep for Gaza, the world's biggest trap
It has to be the most miserable place on this planet's map.
Karen
Comment by Gabriela Peret on December 29, 2008 at 5:54am
Greetings from the creators "Abrelatas Cuántico"

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For our friends with whom we share this quest ...

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The most loving hugs from our love-light.

Every time you are seeing some of the things we've put into this blog, there will be joining their hearts. We welcome the meeting here.

We have opened a new page that contains "Quantum Messages." Angel began with Kryon. This video is beautiful. "Beautiful as an angel." We recommend.

And finishing the home page "Cuánticas Meditations" and started working on a page in their history before 6 thousand years.

Everything you find this blog, have picture, sound and message. This helps each of us consciously work on understanding of who we are and expand our consciousness and make that leap. And here we are living now, we are remembering that it is an opportunity to achieve what is expected for thousands of years.

We feel it is a cosmic event and we dance. So our friends, we celebrate.

A warm-LOVE LIGHT
Gabriela and Catherine
Note: We are so sorry by our mistakes in english. Our English is very basic.

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El más amoroso de nuestros abrazos de AMOR-LUZ.

Cada vez que ustedes esten viendo alguna de las cosas que hemos puesto en este blog, allí estaremos uniéndonos a sus corazones. Nosotras desde aquí celebramos el encuentro.

Hemos inaugurado una nueva página que contiene "Mensajes Cuánticos". Comenzamos con el Angel Kryon. Este video es bello. "Bello como un ángel". Se lo recomendamos.

Ya estamos terminando la página de "Meditaciones Cuánticas" y comenzamos a trabajar sobre una página de Historia mucho antes de éstos 6 mil años.

Todo lo que encuentren en este blog, tiene imagen, sonido y mensaje. Ese que ayuda a que cada uno de nosotros trabajemos conscientemente en la comprensión de quienes somos y así expandir nuestra consciencia y dar este salto. Y en este AHORA que estamos viviendo, estamos recordando que es una oportunidad para lograr lo esperado desde hace miles de años.

Nosotras sentimos que es una fiesta cósmica y estamos en la danza. Así que amigos nuestros, celebremos.

Un abrazo de AMOR-LUZ
Gabriela y Catherine
Comment by David Gould on November 23, 2008 at 3:25am
Palestinian Elegy

Who will sound the requiem
to mark this grieving throng?
Who will write the epitaphs
in this brief historic hour?
Who will grieve the children
slaughtered for no just cause?
And who will bear the coffins
to the burial’s weeping ground?

Whose ululation do we hear
and whose plaint will be heard,
when all is set in epic verse,
anthologies composed of tears?
And whose elegy can we recite
when more are killed each night?
So tell us now why did they die
for no just cause or reason why?

Why is it the innocent
that pay the terrible price?
In all your adult wars,
why is it the children
that seem to perish first?
It is always their little faces
peeping from tiny shrouds
that break our brittle hearts.

So who will sound their requiem,
or write blood stained epitaphs?
Who then can write an elegy,
to honour so many little graves?
There is no shortage of weeping
over each of these little ones.
This world is so impoverished
for its future killed too soon.

David © 8th November 2008
Comment by myron joshua on October 22, 2008 at 9:09pm
A Hollow Harvest
Rotting Roots
Ancient Olive trees yearn
for weathered fingers
To carefully caress their limbs

But other limbs
Rise up in anger
In spite
Protesting the life of the olive.

If anyone has specific information about problems of farmers during the olive picking season, I would be interested in hearing. I have whom i want to confront with this information.

many thanks
Comment by jerry jeremiah on October 22, 2008 at 6:32pm
for peace in the middle east.
Comment by Dani Marael on October 19, 2008 at 11:48pm
Dear friends of an Absence in Jerusalem,
please remind the upcoming event in "Neve Shalom Peace Village" in IS RA EL from October 30th to November 1st: "To the depths of the Lotus Heart".

Excerpt from the essay of Sebastian:
WE ARE LIVING IN THE PROPHECIED TIMES OF THE BIGGEST SHIFT OF CONSCIOUSNESS ON THIS PLANET:

AND THAT IS ABSOLUTLY GREAT :)))

These are the times we have been waiting for since the beginning of time. Now they are here, with drums and trumpets, wind and water, fire and UFO’s, crop circles, breaking global stock markets, sun eruptions, stress & hectic, hooooorayyy

What we can do!!!

We are in the middle of the STORM OF OUR LIVES and now we have to move right to the EYE of the STORM.

In two weeks there will be a Once- In- A- Lifetime chance to change your life, and to prepare and cope with these challenging times in an 11:11 workshop in ISRAEL. FOR THE FIRST TIME IN ISRAEL!! This seminar will be about this:

- What should I know about these times of completion? What is the New World of the GREATER REALITY and how can I prepare for it???
- What happens to my family and my relationships?
- Is my job the right one for me? Is this the reason why I came here on the planet from the end of the universe in these most important times???
- Where is the best place to be safe on this planet to escape the earth changes?
- What should I do during the credit crunch and the economy collapse?
- How do I adjust my house to the higher vibrations? How do I keep my personal energetic hygiene?
- Why do I see so many numbers like: 11:11, 22:22, 33:33, 555, 999 etc.?
- We will learn to anchor us in these times to resist ALL Storms.
- We will learn about the doorway of the 11:11, the bridge between the old and the new world, the FAST EXPRESS TRAIN TO ONENESS
- We will find out about the 11:11 Gate Activations and learn the MUDRAS of each Gate.
- We will clear out the Matrix of our ancestors and of our Star lineage back to the beginning of time
- We will speak in our old Star Language!
- We will activate the LOTUS HEART of ISRAEL and our Personal LOTUS HEART for the first time ever!!! This is really important and will change the world forever. The Lotus Heart IS the energy field/ emotional body of the NEW WORLD and the newest and truest Heart energy we know at this moment!
- We will unify our polarities. This helps to clear out your male and female side. This has a very positive impact on your relationships.
- We will learn and perform the unique 11:11 Dances which make you feel the strong energies of Oneness. Life- changing!!!!!

Oneness is THE KEY to dissolve the old world of Duality!!!

- We will meet many people from many past incarnations, from our soul group!
- We will focus on many unsolved situations with people to clear them forever. This is Hono’o pono pono, Hawaiian for ’’ Solving old situations, making things right``
- We will speak about the legends of completion of the Orion, the Dragon Matrix, The birth of the White Dragon and about the Golden Winged Lions!

This Seminar is highly effective and life- changing. This workshop can help to understand and to adjust to the current energies.

The complete information about the workshop you will find:

Events

Groups: "11:11 - We are all One"

Please spread this message.

Waves of lotus love
DaniMaRaEl
Comment by peter on October 17, 2008 at 4:57pm
When The Power of Love overcomes The Love of Power,The World will know The Peace(Sri Shinmoy)
 

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