Page 27 - Kol Bogrei Habonim - June 13
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Tommy Berman, we salute you with two of
your poems published in RAMBLES, 19 November 2010.
Meeting Exit
Once I take my leave
we were together mouthing the usual words
carefree days in a far country mumbling condolences
meadows, sun and clouds gravely embracing
I shake hands
the years have passed and wipe a tear
now chanced together again “Sad, it’s sad,” I pronounce
in this remote airport cafeteria “but life, you know,
goes on.”
her face is older now
much older, On leaving
and lined with living the assemblage
her eyes the same I cast no shadow
but focused
on our coffee cups Suddenly
I realize
Planes to catch whom they are mourning
our ways now distant
and far apart
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