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Yael

About Me

Poet, been practicing Human Rights law in a little office in Jerusalem. Love spoken word and afro beat, any form of engaged art and a student of Joanna Macy. leaving Israel/Palestine in a few months, for a few years. This site will be mainly for poems and maybe some political writing, when its good. In a few months, Ill have a speaking schedule in the east coast of the U.S.Hebrew readers are welcome to my blog - Live from Planet Jerusalem - here's the link http://www.notes.co.il/yaelberda

My Interests

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My Blog

Rest Poem

No longer do I want The fierce waves of my heart to break uponThe gray concrete desert and lamped starlightOf the citySinging your name at dawnWaiting at your doorstepCloaked in the music of softMorn...
Posted by Yael on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 04:22:00 PST

Feathers

Small pale feathers surround my body as I awakeWas it my heart fluttering in the nightInsight the rib cage?These days, I wish I could fear.It would help to share humanity with thosewhom eat and drink ...
Posted by Yael on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 04:29:00 PST

Out of the middle of the east

Im walking in the last days of   volume I, book 31 those bits and pieces of love and despair I call my life. should I say her life?   Hey, what does space look like out of the emergency? ...
Posted by Yael on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:36:00 PST

Space is a Verb

Space is a verbWeaving our bodiesInto lifeBeing, going, framingI and thouWhiteness is best described by graynessA street by a cornerStairs by the place they endA wall by whom it denies entrySpace is a...
Posted by Yael on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 09:23:00 PST

Planets

I walk on the rocky edges of my lifemy feet soften themI discover new planets in my bodyhabitat of joy and painI go now more often to the darknessjust before the giant red suns of my heartsplinter out...
Posted by Yael on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 02:02:00 PST