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Jewish Haiku It is common knowledge that poetry lovers have been frustrated
by the fact that no poet has chosen to express Jewish themes and feelings in the haiku style (three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables respectively). Filling this gap in poetic literature, David M. Bader has recently written a book titled Haikus for Jews. Here are a few examples of his poetry: Is one Nobel Prize so much to ask from a child after all I've done ------------- Five thousand years a wandering people - then we found the cabanas. ------------- In the ice sculpture reflected bar-mitzvah guests nosh on chopped liver. ------------- Beyond Valium, the peace of knowing one's child is an internist. -------------- The same kimono the top geishas are wearing - got it at Loehmann's. -------------- In a stage whisper a yenta confides the name of her friend's disease. -------------- Jewish triathlon - gin rummy, then contract bridge, followed by a nap. -------------- Scrabble anarchy after "putzhead" is placed on a triple-word score. -------------- The sparkling blue sea beckons me to wait one hour after my sandwich. -------------- Hava nagila, hava nagila, hava - enough already. -------------- Would-be convert lost - thawed Lender's Bagels made a bad first impression. --------------- Today, mild shvitzing. Tomorrow, so hot you'll plotz. Five-day forecast - feh -------------- Left the door open. for the Prophet Elijah. Now our cat is gone. --------------- Now that Koreans are "the New Jews," the old Jews can leave for Boca. --------------- Yom Kippur - forgive me, God, for the Mercedes and all the lobsters. --------------- Hard to tell under the lights - white Yarmulke or male-pattern baldness? -------------- No fins, no flippers the gefilte fish swims with some difficulty. --------------- Yenta. Shmeer. Gevalt. Shlemiel. Shlimazl. Tochis. Oy! To be fluent! --------------- Hey! Get back indoors! Whatever you were doing could put an eye out. -------------- Firefly steals into the night just like my former partner, that gonif. -------------- Look, Beryl! I've found the most splendid tchochke for our Chanukah bush. -------------- Testing the warm milk on her wrist, she beams - nice, but her son is forty. ------------- Lovely nose ring - excuse me while I put my head in the oven. -------------- After the warm rain, the sweet scent of camellias. Did you wipe your feet? -------------- Wet moss on the old stone path - flat on my back, I ponder whom to sue. -------------- The long pilgrimage to the venerable shrine - Leonard's of Great Neck. --------------- Quietly murmured at Saturday services, Yanks 5, Red Sox 3. The information contained in this e-mail message is intended only for the personal and confidential use of the recipient(s) named above. This message may be an attorney-client communication and/or work product and as such is privileged and confidential. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or an agent responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received this document in error and that any review, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail, and delete the original message.
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