A Note to David

by Michal Mahgerefteh

March 28, 2011

I wear no crown

nor point a sword at another

   not even called one among the crowd

I just live by impressions inspired by your psalms

in my joyous haste I slowly walk

  ‘til bone-dull ache deeply feels the rush

   of countless thank you[s] and blessings

to the Almighty Power of Creation

someone must have noticed me

wandering between fig and olive

    hearing my singing and fervent

prattles to sheep-goat seed-leaf

my wish is not being as You or God

or part of history that doesn’t arise as truth

    come-peek at my sublunar world

dwell if you wish in my fertile imagination

find me on the flattering wings of Monarchs

gliding over the thick plateau of seasonal petal-twig

   dining on droplets of nectar from its trunk

and skirting cumulus clouds over peak-mountain rock

I wear no crown

nor point a sword at another

   not even called one among the crowd

I just live by impressions inspired by your psalms

Michal Mahgerefteh is an award-winning poet and artist. She is Editor and Publisher of Poetica Magazine, Reflections of Jewish Thought. Her debut poetry collection, In My Bustan, was released in late 2009, and her second book, Field of Harps, a collection of poems and drawings, is scheduled to be released January 2011. Michal is currently working on a contemporary acrylic paintings centered on the letter Shin, “Shin: The Three Pillars.”