Job (Rachel Korn Poems)
As if heaven openedin a downpour of scabs and cursesthat washed my blessings offand made me stand before you naked.Loneliness ...
Rachel Korn Poems on Sadness (13 Poems)
Generations (For My Daughter) (Rachel Korn Poems)
Loving another, yet she married my father.That other portrait faded with the years.From her album paged in musty velvetShimmered forth ...
Poem’s Beginning (Rachel Korn Poems)
It's a dread and endless fright,A threshold of pain and grief,A something standing at the door,Wrapped in the gray, thick ...
When I Left You (Rachel Korn Poems)
You noticed a smile on my face,And you measured my life outIn yards of blissful daysWhich wait somewhere for me.And ...
Stitchings (Rachel Korn Poems)
Every hour needles pierce the heart,And make it bleed like the deep crimson of red silkOn cool, white-linen flesh.And a ...
Blue Fog (Rachel Korn Poems)
To the president and Rachel ShazarBlue fog on the Galilean hills;a scattering of starsand the full moon rules;the whole sky ...
I Would Sustain (Rachel Korn Poems)
I would bear up the sun with an incantation,(the chanting of magical words)and stretch forth my hands to sustain it(will ...
I Shall Take With Me (Rachel Korn Poems)
I'll take green meadows with me,Scents of the grape-blossom from father'sOrchard,The narrow lanes between the rye,Where my childish footsteps linger.I ...
Autumn Etude (Rachel Korn Poems)
I cannot understandThe wild, mad linesWritten on the misted window-panes,By a withered twig.It may be a portentFrom a veiled remoteness,Where ...
Words (Rachel Korn Poems)
Wringing hands like one bereft,When pain pervades the trembling limb,Listening to each crackling finger,Struggling with its mute lament.Anguished words like ...
The Earth Is Red (Rachel Korn Poems)
The earth is red,Like Cain's dreamIn the humid, sultry nightWhen Jehovah was youngAnd Abel gently pensive.An angel whets his crooked ...
And Now I Can Respond (Rachel Korn Poems)
I can answer now,All they'd ask of me,So adult am I, that I do fear,Memories of the cycles of the ...
A New Dress (Rachel Korn Poems)
Today for the first timeafter seven long yearsI put ona new dress,But it's too short for my grief,too narrow for ...