FINGER PASSION - day 35 MALCHUT sh b’HOD

FINGER PASSION - day 35 MALCHUT sh b’HOD

PSALMS OF MY SOUL

Kabbalistic Sephirat HaOmer - day 35,  5 full weeks of the Omer

How do your fingers spend their time?

  (Mine now hang out on a shutter.)

What are your containers for endless possibility?
© Joy Krauthammer 

Anagama at ISOMATA 

© Joy Krauthammer 

Raku 

© Joy Krauthammer 

TRADING PASSION FOR CLAY TO A CLEAN KEYBOARD

- Joy Krauthammer

When my heart is in my clay

why no more

pot throwing for me today?

To take up less space 

I remind myself

missing the grace.

Instead, I write.

Poems don't break

when a letter falls away

yet portray a broken heart.

No more muddy showers needed.

Writing keeps me clean

and off the mean

streets at midnight.

Both addicting

clay clearly more passionate -

diving into the center

of the spinning pot,

miraculous

and useful 

when finished, fired.

Writing contained,

on computer screen 

through keyboard,

yet, unlike a wheel formed

clay vessel,

computer also is a container -

for my passionate neshama/soul.

Ah, fingers, either way,

ten fingers all used for rhythms

for endless possibility.

http://joys-poems.blogspot.com/2010/04/trading-passion-for-clay-to-clean.html

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2.21.2011

Read at Ruach HaAretz, Canby, Oregon, 7.12.2104

Show me your 10 fingers. My story.

Joy's containers for passions

Can you guess what is inside?