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Judaism - Yes! Zionism - No!

2010-06-12T11:11:00.000-07:00

...couple of day ego I meet bunch of orthodox American kids loudly screaming

( for hours!): Judaism - Yes! Zionism - No!

Judaism - Yes! Zionism - No!..

the only question I would like to ask those children of Land of Free -

how you, guys, could separate two seem forever melted together

ideas - Judaism - going back couple of thousand years religion & no more than

two hundred years old a political movement that in 1948 gave birth to the state of Israel?

To me - a Zionism is a logical extension of Judaism, that in its own way was keeping Jewish people

for centuries alive and organized in different part of the most of the time hostile world;

and now bunch of new disciples of Judaism came to reject Israel's mother roots and throw away

a baby together with a soupy water...hope it will never happen or as other day the first Prime Minister

of Israel, a woman from Ukraine, Golda Meir, put it:

"We have no nuclear arms, but in case we need - we're going to use them"

2010-06-09T20:32:00.000-07:00

Whispering –Beautiful - To the Eve’s ear.
Whispering – Handsome – Adam is near.

Whispering – Life’s forever For a kids’ sake.
Whispering – Life’s a love, Not a mistake.

for Luise, beuatiful girl from France

2010-06-06T19:05:00.000-07:00

@that time I was fascinating with combining an image & text in one common two dimensional space;
this is an exercise of that kind - tiny, haiku like poem, written on top of an image; in the poem I use
a French words (remember from school) night - nuit, yes - oui * amour - need no translation:-)

Dark Icon from Ukraine

2010-06-06T12:13:00.000-07:00

this is Dark Icon from my hometown in far away Ukraine...that tiny Cross

my mom gave me as a gift - Spasi i Sohrini! - written on the Cross -

Save & Preserve!- and even in a digital form it somehow beams

a human warmness and kindness of that land - land of

Black and Azov seas, land of endless steeps, sky full of thousands miles clouds,

land of Kozak Freedom and Thoughts of great stranger, philosopher and poet

Gregory Skovoroda..."The world was chasing me, but never caught" -

and I do like these Gregory's words, spirit of Free Ukraine in them!

orthodox cross

2010-06-06T11:54:00.000-07:00

cross is a sun

cross is a plant

cross is a sword

cross is a Lord...

In Memoriam of Andrey Voznesenskii

2010-06-01T18:51:00.000-07:00

Andrey Voznesenskii & Ukrainian Poet Vasyl Makhno, New York City, 2009

Men walk on Moon, July 1969 New York Times

Voznesenskii poem in the same New York Times edition

Robert Hass @ Poet House in New York City

2010-05-31T10:29:00.000-07:00

...people have no time to read - they busy with their life, work and constant worries about everything else;
but occasionally the tiny book of poems could seduce you and - voila! -
you in the Netherlands of timeless idea, beautiful thoughts, images, rhythms & rhymes...
it works as a glass of good red wine with a good friend.

...couple a days ego I have a chance to meet Robert Hass, American poet, here in New York City at Poets House's Ecology event; there was a lot of talking about ecology, spill of the oil, that now covering up to half of our Planet Oceans, and how we humans destroying our own environment.
At the end of the night I overheard elderly beautiful woman speaking to Robert, trying to express what is
poetry for her and for all of us:
- Those poems, I know by heart , they like - a members of my family, they my friends and my prayers
and when nobody left in my life I still could rely on them, lend my memories to them, weep with them as a child and even ask forgiveness

but people have no time to read...

In Memoriam of Urii Vlodov, great Russian Poet

2010-05-30T17:04:00.000-07:00

Jesus Christ had a child, a girl.
She was sick with AIDS and tuberculosis.
And she was the only Christ’s Love,
and this Love was much greater than his Love to the whole world...
When, crucified on the Cross,
Jesus was dying, his last words were:

Father, Father,
if you can,
cure and save my Love...

Amen.

GI of Sky ( free translation from Urii Vlodov - great Russian Poet)

2010-05-30T13:36:00.000-07:00

Urii Vlodov, great Russian Poet & dissident, 1978, Moscow underground...

_________________

this is a free translation from Vlodov poetm "Pamiatnik";

and, one more time, this is a Free Retelling of an original poem & I made this poem more

American like (given that almost every day American GIs die in Afghanistan!)

______________

GI of Sky

a soldier went through hell of flame,

became a legend, spark of fame,

GI of mighty sky.

forgive me, kids, my dear wife,

I meet you soon in other life...

Your John,

GI of sky!

________

KATYN 9-11

2010-04-11T11:36:00.000-07:00

...it could be either Poland 9-11or Katyn 2.0 or both at the same time:

KATYN 9-11

2009-11-22T13:07:00.000-08:00

too big to fail - too small to bail...
OUT!

2009-11-20T07:27:00.000-08:00

paying attention to and learning from humble but fast developing Eastern European countries could be useful
and rewarding for our trouble moral, edgy economy & complicated language/race relationship...
just come to my mind couple of lines from 20st Ukrainian Poet Volodimir Sos'ura:

Lubit' Ukraiinu y radosti mit' - lubit' y godinu negodi!

Love Ukraine in time of joy - love Ukraine in time of trouble!
Love the States in time of joy - love the States in time of trouble!

urbi et orbi

2009-11-13T08:57:00.000-08:00

respect US Pres -
or US kicks your Ass

2009-10-19T09:06:00.000-07:00

I know you do exist, but I don't know you

I know you omnipresent, but I don't know you

I know you inside me, but I don't know you...

Do you know me - God?

2009-03-24T08:16:00.000-07:00

only artist -
can trick all the people
all the time;-)

2009-02-24T12:56:00.000-08:00

the challenge is not how to resurrect our beloved dead,
but how to feed them

2009-02-21T20:37:00.000-08:00

human being will learn how to fly
by embedding a copy of his brain into the brain of an eagle,
or learn how to live under the water
by embedding a copy of her brain into the brain of a shark...

or learn how to live forever by embeddings a copy of its brain
into the brain of an universe

2009-02-18T11:58:00.000-08:00

playing a melody of darkness
on the flute of light -
art

2009-02-16T10:16:00.000-08:00

Jackson Pollock - American sky.
Jasper Johns - American flag.

u - American people!

2009-02-16T10:06:00.000-08:00

art isn't a picture or music or dance,
art isn't a museum...
art is an abyss -
and you're falling,
and falling,
and falling...

you're falling,
and falling,
and falling,,,

you're falling -
in love

2009-02-15T10:07:00.000-08:00

abstract art is something
that you can eat without a worry
to give a birth to an ugly monster;-O

2009-02-15T09:45:00.000-08:00

abstract art create 'looking for a meaning' state of mind
& b/c the meaning never come
we could enjoy our mind
hovering and never landing,
floating and never floating...
looking for a meaning
without meaning

2009-02-15T09:44:00.000-08:00

curving to the future -
breaking through the death -
human!

2009-02-13T09:14:00.000-08:00

it's pretty strange that that Buffalo plane crash
had happened today Friday, February 13...with almost same
name horror movie coming out soon

2009-02-13T06:33:00.000-08:00

artist is just translator
from collective subconscious to his own visual language
that other human can decipher - to feel,
but never understand...

2009-02-12T07:19:00.000-08:00

we are seems to be in the midst of social revolution,
that could bring us closer & make us compatible
with other great, emerging -
capitalism under control -
systems

2009-02-12T07:12:00.000-08:00

art has nothing to do with a reality
art creates its own reality that has nothing
to do with anything - even with an art

2009-01-17T12:22:00.000-08:00

scenario

***

I invite you in English boat,
old and leaky like English throat.
Leave your Russian-pa-Russian talk,
jump in now, let's rock!

We can travel by sea or land,
we can travel to past or future.
I'm sure you're understand
you'll get it - saying "kruche".

Russian never employ your heart,
never raps your soul in glory,
in Russian you were 'gud'
hissing - 'memento mory'.

And your boyish transparent look
they cemented in ugly body
and now you look as a crook
or a breast of Taho Gody.

Are you jumping...forgot to tell
time is never as good as now.
Listen: Hertsen glorious bell
has been melted in heavy crown,

in sunrise of neo Gulag,
resurrection of Iron Felix,
brown & black flag
unfurling like black Phoenix...

So time to unchain your heart,
squeeze the slavery off your soul...
I invite you to English Grad,
I invite you to English Pole!

***
kruche - in Russian 'tougher'
gud - big snake in Russian, anaconda
Taho Gody - elderly teacher in Lit Inst/Moscow 1980's
Hertsen - Russian revolutionary, editor of "Kolokol" -
"The Bell"
Iron Felix - Felix Dzerjinski, founder of Soviet
secrete police(ZK,DKVD,KGB)

2009-01-17T12:16:00.000-08:00

suddenly -
door is opened!..
& instead of outside
we have outspace
uber-library
of knowledge

america the great

2009-01-11T17:35:00.000-08:00

jazz, hip-hop & rap -
change the world's map.

whitman, ginsburg & plath -
improve!
the world's health.

mac, hp & dell -
sell
even in Hell!

2009-01-11T17:30:00.000-08:00

face to face with a sky,
face to face with a moon...
sorrow never lie,
but die -
soon
.

2008-11-30T07:42:00.000-08:00

open blue book - sky - and fly...
open green book - sea - and see...
open yellow book - sun - my son!..

2008-11-30T06:38:00.000-08:00

Mumbui's blood
returns as a rain
to rise new life
from dead grain,

to rise new hope
for a world peace...
but those few souls
we'll always - miss...

2008-10-26T09:17:00.000-07:00

if we can make energy from a wind
why not - from storm,
tornado,
hurricane...
even from flying in space a comet

2008-10-25T13:54:00.002-07:00

howling bitter wind...

over frozen ocean
of the eternal Eye

2008-10-25T13:54:00.001-07:00

to be wise - think twice.
but pay thrice -
to be nice

2008-10-18T10:32:00.000-07:00

free as a tree &
expensive as a pencil -
U

2008-09-27T20:55:00.000-07:00

...black cat descending -
night with billions stars,
looking through us,
cutting our souls in tiny pieces,
packaging them, e-mailing them
to the future...
you will be resurrected!
and you,
and you,
and you.
just keep you soul - transparent,
clean, kind.
give her a bread of daily joy
and a wine of nightly freedom..
and love your - billions stars -
black cat!

2008-09-22T07:38:00.000-07:00

..."nationalisation" of Wall Street -
needed step that put us in stronger position
to compete & be compatible with
other - BRIC's ( Brazil,Russia,India,China) -
socialist systems.

2008-09-14T20:36:00.000-07:00

9/11 remind us all
just three words sentence:
let's roll!

2008-09-14T19:46:00.000-07:00

dry packages of self esteem:
add a water, put in microwave -

milk for Romulus & Remus,
blood for new roman empire...

mother Wolf - howling -
calling us back
children of Rome of self esteem

2008-09-14T08:10:00.000-07:00

soul & no body
soul & space
soul & nothingness...

space is a soul of nothingness

2008-08-19T07:11:00.000-07:00

photo - light in ancient Greek, sophya- wisdom;
photosophy - wisdom of light.

Plato's shadow on a cave's wall -
ideal of photosophy.

2008-08-08T22:22:00.000-07:00

'invisible hand of market'
seems to be busy doing something else...

y.o.y

2008-08-07T11:03:00.000-07:00

I owe you.
he owes you.
she owes you.
they owe you.

all owe - you...owe you

2008-08-07T11:00:00.000-07:00

sub/ crime mortgages
for sub/ prime people

2008-08-07T10:57:00.000-07:00

instead of facing a death -
let's face a music
(of eternity;-)

2008-08-02T18:27:00.000-07:00

bottomless blue lake of sky...
tiny plane - as a bullet in slow motion -
piercing my soul

2008-08-02T18:23:00.000-07:00

from the ocean of blood, from the ocean of blood
tiny baby crying emerged.
from the ocean of blood, from the ocean of blood
tiny life crying emerged...

from the ocean of sky, from the ocean of sky
tiny cloud sparkling emerged.
from the ocean of sky, from the ocean of sky...

fantazi

2007-11-17T17:05:00.000-08:00

...circle is a domesticated square.
square is a family of four
in the vicious circle of poverty...

MR...

2007-11-01T08:12:00.000-07:00

UBERPOORUBERICH
BREAKINTWO&FALLINDITCH

2007-10-26T10:31:00.000-07:00

half bird - half cloud
half you - half memory

half you - half Me:
our K I :-D...

2007-10-26T10:26:00.000-07:00

bigMoney - give you respect
& make you rich...

smallMoney - make you insect
climbing out
of a deep
deep
deep
ditch...

2007-10-21T08:54:00.000-07:00

...speaking of Hillary my friend Allen
put it like that:
we'll get two for a price of one...

2007-10-13T07:01:00.001-07:00

e_mail2god@god.god

- god, give me one more body...
- only one per customer.

- god, give me one more soul...
- you have one forever.

- god, give me one more child...
- it's not for free!

2007-10-13T07:01:00.000-07:00

VIETNAM
VIETRAQ
VIETRAN
.................
VIETWORLD

to forgotten friend

2007-09-29T08:32:00.000-07:00

I've read a poem by Melamed,

poem in Russian - and went to bed.

poem is simple, but very sad -

written in pain by forgotten friend.

Igor, remember snowy nights,

fat man* teaching us of insight.

Rilke, Nabokov & lyric Fet,

promise of glory we never get.

night by the bottle, days by the book.

big brother watching - KGB spook.

interrogation - & a blackmail:

name the names or go to jail.

dear, forgotten soviet time -

do you remember?try to smile...

pain just reminder - we are flash,

painless forever only ash...

night is descending, time to sleep -

poem in Russian don't weep.

every Russian remember must:

Moscow in tears doesn't trust!

________________________
*soviet poet Evgeniy Vinokurov
1984/Literaturniy Institut/Moskva

2007-09-28T14:31:00.000-07:00

CAPITALISM, YOU'RE NEVER FULL,
YOU'RE ALWAYS HUNGRY AS A BULL.
YOU'RE ALWAYS RUDE, YOU'RE ALWAYS TOUGH,
YOU'RE NEVER GET A WORD - ENOUGH!

DEMOCRACY - A DREAM OF GREECE -
THE LOVE WE HAVE, BUT ALWAYS MISS.
DEMOCRACY - A LASER BEAM
TO KEEP THE BULL FROM THE EXTREME!

TWO QUOTES

2007-09-28T14:01:00.000-07:00

#1:
...TRY TO BETTER POLICE THE BORDER BETWEEN
CAPITALISM AND DEMOCRACY.

R.B.REICH/FRM.LABOR SECRETARY

#2:
...CHALLENGE CAPITALISM MASQUERADING AS DEMOCRACY.

L. FERLINGHETTI
'POETRY AS INSURGENT ART'

2007-09-18T12:34:00.000-07:00

did somebody notice?

GOD IS GOOD,
&DEVIL IS EVIL...

BUT GOD COULD DO EVIL & DEVIL COULD DO GOOD
SO WE COULD HAVE
EVILGOD
& GOODEVIL...

lullaby4park

2007-09-18T12:13:00.000-07:00

night is coming, night the dark

to the city, to the park.

monsters, animals & dead

smile at us & give us bread.

sleep my child -O O OO O

take a ride on... U F O

through the clouds - to the star,

play with pinkie avatar,

play with A and B and C,

say good buy, or say merci...

sleep my child - forgotten park,

night is coming, night the dark.

2007-06-27T14:31:00.000-07:00

beauty of the beast
&
beasts of the beauty

2006-12-25T19:12:00.000-08:00

EAST: DOING&GOING
WEST: DONE&GONE

2006-12-25T18:54:00.000-08:00

love is a kid...and you love - until it stay a kid

2006-10-01T20:35:00.000-07:00

small rock bouncing
from sky to sky,
form land to land,
form lake to lake,
from time to time -

melody of time in the time without border...

our time struggle

2006-10-01T20:29:00.000-07:00

...secular modern mind vs. religious converted mind!
either we convert them to the future
or they convert us - to the past.

2006-10-01T20:16:00.000-07:00

legally not, but in fact - this is my land.
legally not, but in fact - this is my body.
legally not, but in fact - this is my soul

that belongs to the big brother...

2006-09-04T11:58:00.000-07:00

what if universe has a size of an atom?

2006-09-04T11:43:00.000-07:00

after galileo galiley discoveries
we human has been thought of - as remotest part of centerless,
lost in timeless space matter called universe...

at some point in unistory*
we could have one more chance
to become center and owner of universe - spacelord! -
nobody else could do it for us: we are alone.

*history of universe

meditation

2006-09-02T20:01:00.000-07:00

layer through layer -
to tender heart,
heart of infinity - heart of art.

layer through layer -
to tender thought,
thought of eternity - thought of god...

fantasy

2006-08-20T08:15:00.000-07:00

when you occasionally look back at the past century -
only ugly figures and victims floating out of a gray fog:

adolf&eva on the back of their horse size dog blondy...

joseph with an axed bloody baby leon in his huge hairy arms...

jack - praying to god&jacqueline in the last microseconds
of his life:don't leavemealone...alone..al...n

2006-08-19T19:22:00.000-07:00

body meets body -
soul meets soul.
body parts body - and go...
souls never part: soul is never whole.

2006-08-13T18:28:00.000-07:00

.....how many baby-men inside
one single word: women?...

2006-08-13T15:17:00.000-07:00

This time the world will be split by energy line:
energy rich poor countries vs. energy poor rich countries...

p.s. most of the oil/gas energy resources located
in Middle East, Latin America and Russia.
Moscow could become Mosqow.

2006-08-06T11:37:00.000-07:00

every time I go to bed
& fall in the dark sleep -
I'm traveling through the timeless time
with a giant silent leaps.

in that timeless time everything mixed-up:
adult pink lipstick & childhood broken toy.
I would like to stay in that timeless time
where my life cannot be destroyed.

in this time everything on its own place
& you never get back in time...
& only one star - called sun -
traveling through the timeless space...

2006-08-06T11:12:00.000-07:00

...baby-buster generation - have a lot of tools
to accomplish there goal:
tool #1 - known
tool #2 - known
tool #3 - known...
........................
tool #N - not yet invented.

2006-08-05T21:46:00.000-07:00

dinosource of enershe

2006-08-02T18:20:00.000-07:00

God's help as a lottery chance:
to get it - pay or pray!..

ad astra!

2006-07-29T18:42:00.000-07:00

today we have subway,
tomorrow - spaceway.
today we have subconscious,
tomorrow - spaceconscious.
today we have not,
tomorrow we have - spacefreedom!

2006-07-01T13:40:00.000-07:00

LOCAL MELTING POT VS. GLOBAL MELTING POT...
ARE YOU WITH ME, UNCLE SAM???

2006-07-01T13:33:00.000-07:00

WE HUMAN STILL IN THE BETA*...

*testing mode in computer jargon

2006-07-01T13:26:00.000-07:00

Imagine:

hundred of thousands - lying on the ground,

looking at the sky size art-project: SKY_QUEIROS!!!

2006-02-07T20:04:00.000-08:00

afternoon designed for relaxation
break
your day in
two
birds flying around:
chiki- chik, chiki-chik...

2 birds flying around -
globe*U2.F L Y...

2006-01-28T08:55:00.000-08:00

'behind bars' vs. 'behind gates' community...
both are happy in their own way:
latter - when they are locked,
former - when they are unlocked...

2006-01-22T11:39:00.000-08:00

today US president make 30! times less than an average F500/CEO...
40 years ego US president made just two times less than average
CEO.

2006-01-21T10:08:00.000-08:00

poor man works, works, works...
after that - sleep.
in his dream - work is looking for him.

rich man sleeps, sleeps, sleeps...
after that - work.
but that's - just a poor man's dream.

2006-01-17T20:28:00.000-08:00

Roman term for broadcast: urbi at orbi...

2006-01-14T10:43:00.000-08:00

there's no harmony in the world,
only a different degrees of dishamony..

human is a tree - rooted in the soil of flesh...

2005-10-02T11:47:00.000-07:00

We do need "THE FLOOR STREET JOURNAL"...Finances at the bottom
as complicated as at the top.

2005-08-20T20:55:00.000-07:00

at the end of the day - memento pray.
at the end of the story - memento mori...

2005-08-10T20:21:00.000-07:00

Nowadays you have to be a saint -
to stay just a human.

2005-08-10T20:15:00.000-07:00

What has not been said about Peter Jennings...

Peter has been archetype of Western Man,
a last kiplinger of dying analog era...

2005-08-06T09:27:00.000-07:00

internet + planet = inter - pla - net

2005-07-31T19:45:00.000-07:00

as a planet flooded with a salty water,
a world is flooded with a bitter povetry,

and a human - with an endless doubt...

2005-07-30T20:06:00.000-07:00

art doesn't inform, art - form!
art isn't an information,
art is a creation!

2005-07-23T13:57:00.000-07:00

in Moscow we have to erect one more monument -
to unknown Poet!

2005-07-23T12:35:00.000-07:00

Now we do have just a treatable rash of civilizations,
it could become untreatable "clash of civilizations",
that could lead us - to a crash of civilizations,
and finally - to an ash of civilizations...

2005-07-23T12:29:00.000-07:00

Life - pro-life & death - pro-choice...
God or devil give you voice?

2005-07-23T12:25:00.000-07:00

HisStory of Man-kind vs. HerStory of Woman-kind

2005-07-23T12:22:00.000-07:00

Bill Gates' "friction free capitalism"
could give us - freedom free capitalism.