Bathsheba's Levantine Bouquet: A Verse Collection

Barbara Hantman

Xlibris Corporation, 2012 - Poetry - 168 pages

In Bathsheba's Levantine Bouquet, BarbaraHantman captures the Jewish calendar holiday cycle in the opening chapter, "Days of Smiles and Tears." Chapters on "Hebrew Heritage" and "The Sacred Tongue" boast linguistic riches of eight bilingual Hebrew-English poems. "Soaring Minds, Heaving Hearts" rhapsodizes over such eminences as Moses, Solomon, Halevi , Maimonides, Spinoza, Emma Lazarus, C.N. Bialik and Hanna Senesh. "For the Kinder" sings the praises of Thomas the Tank Engine, while "Love' s Lessons" concludes with mature love 's lyrical reveries, wistful childhood remembrance, homage to Triangle Shirtwaist victims and an altruistic "Prayer for Japan and the World."

Contents

• Acknowledgments: 11
• Days Of Smiles And Tears: 13
• Blessing of the Sun: 15
• The Kiddush Cup: 17
• Blessed Be He: 18
• Fathers of the Synagogue: 20
• Shabbat Medley: 21
• A New Shabbat Enters the Community Room: 22
• A Melding of Slichos and Tashlich: 24
• On the Day of Judgment: 26
• Feast of Booths: 28
• Dancing Scrolls: 29
• Flaming Festival of Spiritual Survival: 31
• The Maccabean Gift: 32
• Feliz Chanukah: 34
• Happy Chanukah: 35
• A Kabbalistic View: 36
• Purim Villanelle: 37
• Gratitude Due The Almighty: 38
• Counting OmerSoaring Ladder of Sefiros: 39
• Holiday of Heroes Fallen and Upright: 41
• Downtroddens Epiphany: 43
• Bathshebas Akdamut: 44
• Mournful Memoir: 47
• Hebrew Heritage: 49
• Return to Torah: 51
• Wisdom of Splendor: 52
• Lilith and Adam Redux: 55
• Clarity of Mind: 58
• Count Your Blessings: 60
• Godtalk: 62
• The Mortal Vessel: 64
• Toledo Ware: 65
• Eerie Seasonal Haiku and Senryu: 67
• Sacred Spring: 68
• Renewal: 69
• The Sacred Tongue: 71
• Repentance: 74
• Salvation: 76
• Who Lives in the Shadows?: 78
• What a Pity That: 80
• The Jewelry Says: 82
• Song of the Colors: 85
• Soaring Minds Heaving Hearts: 87
• Throughout the Ages: 89
• Moshe Rabbeinu: 91
• Solomon the Soothsayer: 92
• Dead Sea Scrolls Ghazal: 93
• HispanoHebrew Ornament of the World: 95
• Riddles: 96
• Soaring Sephardim: 98
• Joseph Süss Oppenheimer: 100
• Zvi: 101
• Liberty Enlightening the New World: 103
• David Bergelson: 104
• CN Bialik Cento: 105
• Martyred Magyar MadrigalRedeemer: 107
• The Kleine Konditorei: 110
• Yaels Story: 111
• Fran Laufer: 112
• Film Fibonaccis: 113
• Phylis Eichen: 115
• Israel Halpern: 116
• Ed Miller: 117
• Mr Ost: 118
• I Reverence You: 119
• I Recall: 120
• Janet Edelman: 121
• To Gehenna Pastries Intact: 122
• Muses of My Life: 123
• Two Final Mitzvahs: 124
• For The Kinder: 127
• Samuel Isaac: 129
• Saga of Sam: 130
• Saga of Sam 2: 131
• Abigail Paige: 132
• Name Tribute: 133
• Thomass Smile: 134
• Be Glad Your Ears Are What They Are: 136
• Because His Aunt Owns a Goodyear Blimp LookAlike: 137
• I Am: 138
• SelfDefense Rap: 139
• Persistence Rap: 141
• Loves Lessons: 143
• Love Lessons: 145
• My: 146
• WouldBe Love: 147
• This Beloved: 149
• Harry Ellison: 150
• Copper Beech That Witnessed Love Born Anew: 151
• Play Poignant Piano: 153
• Leaving Childhood: 155
• Black Winter Raincoat: 157
• Conceive a World: 158
• Your Virtue Resurrects: 159
• New Years Sonnet: 160
• Contribute Plain: 161
• Triangle Shirtwaist Phoenix: 162
• Bhatzlachah: 165
• Prayer for Japan and the World: 166

Bibliographic information

• Title: Bathsheba's Levantine Bouquet: A Verse Collection
• Author: Barbara Hantman
• Publisher: Xlibris Corporation, 2012
• ISBN: 1477107843, 9781477107843
• Length: 168 pages
• Subjects: Poetry / General