TEARS NOT OF JOY

TEARS NOT OF JOY


- Joy Krauthammer

Do you think

tears are good for the garden?

the place where I find G*d.

Do tears nourish the flowers

in this rain drought of ours,
in this mourning,

hours of sadness,

or are tears too salty?

I used to cry as I swam,

breast stroke--face down

in the swimming pool.

Tears blended in,

disappearing, joining in 

as drops

in the ocean of tears.

No tissue needed.
         ~

Tears Not of Joy
Tear drops blend in the salty ocean of tears.

The Deronda Review

reprinted from "The Deronda Review", a journal of poetry and thought

Vol. IV No. 2 - Winter-Spring 2012, page 37

http://www.pointandcircumference.com/

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JOY AS HEALER

           JOY AS HEALER

              - Joy Krauthammer

I heal by acknowledging and feeling my joy.

I heal with G*d’s energy, feeling the Love.

I heal with Shechinah's nighttime embrace.

I heal with my spirituality. I heal with prayer.

I heal by studying and sharing Torah and wisdom of my teachers.

I heal by returning, teshuvah to me; what I am, to who I am, to where I am– my soul's land.

I heal by returning to what I love & aliveness.

I heal with my passion, heart and hands.

I heal with breath, deeply and slowly.

I heal with mikveh's water, with renewal.

I heal by swimming and by floating.

I heal with time, and with tears.

I heal with guidance, friendship.

I heal with space.

I heal with silence, with meditation.

I heal with sound; crystal and Tibetan singing bowls, bells, gongs & chimes.

I heal by playing my ribboned timbrel & drum.

I heal with song; gentle niggun and ecstatic.

I heal with my dancing.

I heal by creating art; by camera and brush. 

I heal with my spoken words & written words.

I heal in my garden of joy, by weeding & watering, planting & picking & pruning. 
I heal in my garden by inhaling, touching, seeing, and sharing the abunDance.

I heal by doing mitzvot / good deeds.

I heal by acknowledging my loss, grief, vulnerability, and aloneness.

I heal with memories.

I heal with gratitude.

I heal with humor, at times, dark.

I heal with chocolate, mostly dark.

I heal by 'letting it go'. 

I heal by speaking my truth.

I heal by forgiving others and forgiving myself.

I heal by knowing I am a vessel of joy for G*d.

                               ~ ~ ~ 
http://joys-joyousjoy.blogspot.com/2011/11/healing-with-joy.html