~ Chaim Zaleski ~ by Paul Russell

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		Date Added: December 28, 2003 17:12:31	Average Score: (Needs 2)
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~ Chaim Zaleski ~

~ Chaim Zaleski ~

~ Chaim Zaleski ~

Clambering upon the
paradigm wishing well
was little Chaim Zaleski,
paper and pen.
Jagged breakers of fall
await at the bottom;
blood turns black on
stone here often he'd read.

His bobbled magneta scarf.
Soft frills like tallits,
heirlooms of talmud.
With six hundred plus laws
at his throat and stomach.
Little Chaim Zaleski stood
eye to eye with the dawn at
the foot of winter solstice,
narrating his death as novelty.

His shivering cack-handed quill.
chafed the shrivelling rain swept writ.
"Preludes to a simmering moratorium.
where father will bury me twice"

Go haywire as you choke my son!
Go bow-legged in catharsis.
The early bird won't mock with catcalls
and the rabbi won't lose his tounge.
so, Little Chaim Zaleski,
make meaning of haste and JUMP!

'Her name would be mimicry
and cross will we at moribund'
figured little Chaim Zaleski;
his sinews snagged a branch,
and his body clock chimed not one
tick or twitch of hands.
Frozen limbs dangling in dance
with the reapers fast approach.
A hollow shell like bygone
spirits waits to vanish.
Waits for the forest to
wake and feed on the corpse.

Author's Notes:

Hello, from whence comes the plague n pressure to write though it give pleasure huh?? ahhh the evasion of it all...anywho this poem like many I write will have mysteries I like to keep to me, but of what it does show, is the final moments of the local jewish rabbi's son's life, as he like his gf commits suicide (note : the line "her name would be Mimicry") at the old well when their love is overridden by scripture etc. I had a very different topic to write of when I began, but I must go where the pen takes me sometimes. ....enjoy.

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Comments:

	Comment By: Angela on January 13, 2004 11:42:27 AM	Report
	Nicely written Paul... Respond To This Comment

	Comment By: Barbara Demasson on December 28, 2003 09:51:18 PM	Report
	A sad tale of his demise, vividly told...chilling! I wouldn't have thought that she did the same, except from the information in the 'about this poem' section, the same applies to the insight into their forbidden love. I suppose this is some of the mystery in your work...although I think this information would be fitting in the body of the poem itself. 'Hollow shells like bygone spirits wait to vanish', nice line! The tragic reality of this poem is that religion, with it's foundation of love is the very thing which forbids this love. Nice write Reyman! =)) Barbara Respond To This Comment