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 Smiling (14 Poems)
Crazy Levi (Rachel Korn Poems)
And no one knows what became of him, Crazy Levi,who tied the roadsfrom Yaverev to Moshtsiskto Samber to Greyding in ...
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 ...
Encounter (Rachel Korn Poems)
That's how they met,In a dream in the night,The young girl with loose, flying hairAnd the woman on toward sixty.The ...
My Hand (Rachel Korn Poems)
My hand forgot to stroke your head,Was left suspended in the air,Like a mute and frozen cry-While like a small ...
Lot’s Wife (Rachel Korn Poems)
I wasn't brave enough to turnwhen my home was burnedand my happiness was torn away.I envy youfor turning in mid-flightturning ...
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 ...
I’d Love To Meet Your Mother Once (Rachel Korn Poems)
I'd Love to meet your mother onceAnd kiss her hands.No doubt she'd find you in my eyesAnd all your words ...
I’m Cold Momma (Rachel Korn Poems)
I'm cold, momma-it must be the damp of your grave,where your heartwith a German bullet at the very center of ...
Summer Rain (Rachel Korn Poems)
Like girls yearning to be married, the overripeacres of grainwait for the singing wedding guestswho haven't comein all these grieving ...
New Furrows In The Black Earth (Rachel Korn Poems)
New Furrows in the black earthyield to the autumn sunlike women birthing for the first time:bearing the pain and smiling,they've ...
Wrist (Rachel Korn Poems)
My wrist has become so narrow, so slim;Your glance too heavy for it, I fear.As with a ribbon, you could ...
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 ...
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 ...