Tuna Sokak ~ Danube Street

full moon over Danube Street my cute neighbor wears his beachcombers full moon over Danube Street moonglow from all the satellite dishes full moon over Danube Street the soft murmur of air conditioners full moon over Danube Street moonwatching neighbors gossip full moon over Danube Street moonwatching reading my rosary full moon over Danube Street some bright stars and planets and street lights full moon over Danube Street a taxi picks up a neighbor all dressed up full moon over Danube Street the cat's complaints don't sound so romantic full moon over Danube Street teens in T-shirts don't seem to be going home full moon over Danube Street moonlight street lights midsummer night's full moon the call to morning prayer comes so early   i

The Silence of Two: spinning webs.

The Silence of Two: spinning webs.

i hope my friends will read this!

Fw: the body of Christ

dear family, brothers sister friends: this is my personal letter to warren celebration of the sanctity of life, of the sacredness of the human family, is a universal, actually hardwired in our beings, not exclusive property of nobody... let us all, atheist, humanist, and as the Quran says, any human anywhere, celebrate this divine ever new light of life love and being. isa --- On Sat, 12/27/08, isa wrote: From: isa Subject: the body of Christ To: info@saddleback.net Date: Saturday, December 27, 2008, 5:06 PM dear Saddleback.net and Mr. Warren and associates: You cannot read the plea and the prayers of Paul and not know: The body of Christ is not one community to the exclusion of the rest. Kenosis you know is not puffing up, but bending down. Kenosis is the antonym of dominion. Kenosis according to the Fathers of the "Church" is the proof of Jesus' ministry to the divine family, that Jesus put aside dominion and became a baby, the most powerless poorest most helpless possible. Making politics with God's mercy, denying it, demeans belittles denigrates God's majesty. We are NOT Christophobes. You do not have the right, the authority, the mission of taking on Christ's mantle: you can't make the claim which Jesus refused to claim by his own authority in obedience to the Father: called kenosis by the fathers of the church... Sorry, there is no such self appointed papal infallibility, neither in Rome, nor Alexandria, nor in Saddleback. When you claim for you yourself the authority of the Church, the body of Christ, you usurp God's mercy, and proclaim what Jesus in His lifetime refused to allow. No. The Christophobes are the ones who damn some of or any of those who turn to the Lord and wait on the Lord. Christophobes are the ones who damn anyone of any belief or "lifestyle" who serve in peace, who serve in mercy, who serve the cursed, the outcast, the centurion's slave, the fallen, the lost sheep, the goyim, the Samaritan, women with bloody discharge, the unclean. Serve the unclean, and you will be washed clean by their tears. That is Jesus's contract, cleansed of sectarianism. God's Son is us, all of us, as Jesus reminded his locuters. No. I don't hate you, but your bull shit until you clean it up makes the whole church smell. Arrogance always stinks of its father whom Jesus after 40 days of fasting ordered back under its rock, and simony is a mortal sin, unforgivable. Yes you win. Our Jesus didn't. Our Jesus refused to compete. Those who claim Jesus's mantle don't seek glory in the devil's house, but seek it among the outcast, downtrodden and despised: that is the mantle. Any other is wolves in sheep's clothing. The choice is yours, you know. People can't be fixed. God makes us, doesn't hate us, and asks us to serve him by showing his mercy, that mercy which knows no boundary. Choose. As God warns in Deuteronomy, you don't need no engraved invitation, this Word is written in your human heart. It's there to light the darkness. Those that reject that light burn in it anyway. Let yourself burn. That is God's mercy. Let that love shine, and no darkness can dim it. from one fagot in god's barbecue to another, let us celebrate the sanctity of all newborn children and all their mothers and all their fathers, all god's special gifts, without whom god's universe is incomplete. Let us celebrate the sacredness of all families. merry and happy and holy feast of the incarnation of god's divine mercy in the human heart, the new light in the new year. isa fakir "If not now, when?" "if I am not for me, who is. if I am just for me, what am I" isa kocher http://www.tiwiguide.com/

let us celebrate the sanctity of life

let us celebrate the sanctity of life

peace, joy, blessings, love, and prayers

relight the beacon, renew the hope, reawaken the faith, restore the promise, return to the light, be born again: we are the chosen people, the Heavenly Kingdom, the New Jerusalem, the sacred community of the ordained, beings of light, friends and family, the New Republic. Let us shine. Let our new light wash away the darkness.

we all, each and every one of us,
are that special unique sacred gift,
without which creation can not be complete

bright ice cold
winter morning
market day, isa’s birthday

new fire old coals
in the old stove
new year

December 25, 2008, Winter Solstice Journal






This year I celebrated Thanksgiving with a prayers service after Friday prayer, with a memorial service for my parents and supplicatory prayers for the new American government.

The traditional Turkish idiom for rain is "god’s mercy ." Thanksgiving isn’t celebrated. The two great holidays in the Islamic year are the Ramazan Holiday and the Feastday of Haj. For Thanksgiving Day, after the memorial prayers, there was a meal together, at a small local zawiya, corner meeting for Sufis, which was catered by the young dervishes living there studying.

all morning in the kitchen
cooking chicken and mutton
keeps us warm

cold noontime sun
stretches out the shadows
call for Friday prayers

suras chanted for my mother
old men in overcoats
join the meal, and students

According to certain traditional signs and teachings, some people are saints and wait for us in heaven. Dreams where someone sees Mohammed[saws] for example are guaranteed to be inspired. Believers who die in faith past the age of 90 are blessed. My mother Rosi was 97. She assured us she returned to her Walti who was waiting for her in heaven.

last prayers
in the cold night air
streets empty

cold night air
stoves smell of coal
lights behind curtains

two days without water
unwashed pots and dishes
left over bones for soup.

tomorrow
first of the month of Hajj
got to shop for a new stove

bright orange pumpkin
hot soup with spices?
or pumpkin soufflé gateau

• thunderstorms threaten
• winter
• waiting for my son's call
• 
  
• thunderstorms threaten
• winter
• i hate talking to my bank
• 
  
• thunderstorms threaten
• winter
• no city water all day today
• 
  
• thunderstorms threaten
• winter
• tomorrow's not thanksgiving in turkey
• thunderstorms threaten
• winter
• god's electrifying mercy

.
sun’s shortest day
*Rumi’s night of light
all day all night rain


*shebi aruz
Konya deep in snow
dervishes deep in remembrance


hazretti pir mevlana jelaluddin rumi’s wedding night,
winter solstice,
night weds the light




*isa's birthday dawns
cold, freezing wet
neighbors get to work

isa's birthday
Thursday's market day
shoppers all bundled up

*"isa" is probably the most common spelling outside Western Europe of Yeshua/Joshua/Jesus. in arabic 3ain.yau.sin.yau. it gets transliterated in latin letters to i.s.a and it means something like word avatar, "god saves/defends/keeps safe", a kind of prayer, or war cry. Noel is not a holiday most places.
*hazretti mevlana jelaluddin mohammed rumi *”shebi aruz”: means “wedding night”, mevlana’s wedding night, the night he returned to heaven




bright ice cold
winter morning
market day, isa’s birthday



silent night
god's mercy
blankets the city in white


silent night
the city sleeps
under a white blanket


silent night
little Franklin stove
keeps out the cold


in silence
falling snow
reflects the street lights


isa's birthday dawns
cold, freezing wet neighbors get to work




winter
morning
cold
relighting the stove
with last night's coals.




new fire old coals
in the old stove
new year

Fw: [Gay-Democrat] Fw: [DeBruceNY] celebrate the sanctity of life

"If not now, when?" "if I am not for me, who is. if I am just for me, what am I" isa kocher http://www.tiwiguide.com/ --- On Thu, 12/25/08, isa wrote: From: isa Subject: [Gay-Democrat] Fw: [DeBruceNY] celebrate the sanctity of life To: "gaydemocratyahoo" , "demsobamaworldwide" <0bamaWorldwide@groups.barackobama.com>, "demseurope" , "DEMSOUT4O" , "demsvetsdiscuss" Date: Thursday, December 25, 2008, 3:22 PM peace blessings and prayers let us celebrate the light, the sanctity of life, the sacredness of ther whole human family. love and hugz isa "If not now, when?" "if I am not for me, who is. if I am just for me, what am I" isa kocher http://www.tiwiguid e.com/ __._,_.___ Messages in this topic (1) Reply (via web post) | Start a new topic Messages | Files | Photos | Links | Database | Polls | Members | Calendar MARKETPLACE From kitchen basics to easy recipes - join the Group from Kraft Foods Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch format to Traditional Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe Recent Activity Visit Your Group New web site? Drive traffic now. Get your business on Yahoo! search. Find helpful tips for Moderators on the Yahoo! Groups team blog. Yahoo! Groups w/ John McEnroe Join the All-Bran Day 10 Club. . __,_._,___

the right to life. Fw: [OutforObama] opinion, fact, law,: celebrate the sanctity of ALL life

From: isa@786isa.net Subject: [OutforObama] opinion, fact, law To: distribution list Date: Saturday, December 20, 2008, 12:30 PM dear friends and family: "we are the change we have been waiting for" isa "hussein2" kocher --- On Sat, 12/20/08, isa@786isa.net wrote: From: isa@786isa.net Subject: [OutforObama] opinion, fact, law, To: gay@ob3.colo, lesbian@ob3.colo, bi@ob3.colo, &@ob3.colo, trans@ob3.colo, for@ob3.colo, Obama@ob3.colo Date: Saturday, December 20, 2008, 12:30 PM 1. opinion 2. fact 3. opinion about fact everyone has a right to their opinion. nobody has a right to their own facts. you can have an opinion about the facts, but if the facts are not what you think they are, than your opinion stops being a right and just becomes wrong. Plain and Simple. Facts are provable. 1. the moon is beautiful. Madonna makes me puke. OK. 2. a.the moon is a satellite of earth: OK. 2.the sun is a satellite of earth. NOT. 3. Galileo said 2a true and 2b false and the church tried him for disbelief. He was declared a heretic. 1. My brother in law tells me "you are too disgusting. get out." I was physically told to get out of my own house because my brother in law pukes from seeing gay people kiss in the living room. "you're sick. get the **** out." In DeBruce New York, on the corner of DeBruce and Goff Roads, at the former DeBruce Club Inn, where I grew up. Where I butchered chickens for the restaurant. Picked out the lost golf balls from the three streams and the water traps. Played in the summer hotel baseball league. Bell hopped. Busboyed. Ran the Saturday night movie. At age 35, I took the manager of a major NYC hotel kitchen home for the weekend on Friday, and my sister and her husband happened to get there Saturday. "Get the **** out: you make me puke." That is a brother in law in the living room of my own house, a house I own together with my siblings. BTW, that brother-in-law has moral challenges enough to mind his own business. 2. marriage in the USA is a civil contract and under the constitution immune from religious concerns. Fact. marriage universally is a basic human right. 2,500 years ago[not 5,000, but less than 3,000.] In Athenian law only rich men could marry. Workers, women, children, foreigners, gay males, slaves and poor people had no right to marry... by law. Boys from rich families had to provide sex service to rich men in return for basic education and legal standing in the adult community BUT sexual penetration of a freeman boy was a capital offense. Sex was one way and intracrurial. From the time of Hammurabi through to the end of the Roman Republic when Mohammed II conquered Constantinople rich men had a legal right to sexually penetrate whomever they wanted, male female child or dog as long as it was not a rich boy, or owned by another rich man. If I as a rich male raped a dog or my neighbor's milkmaid or scrub, probably the dog cost me more. The Christian Empire, east and west, Latin Church and Orthodox, gave same sex couples the same rights as heterosexual couples. In the Latin medieval churches, heterosexual couples were forbidden to enjoy any sex of any kind. By law they had to be fully clothed, and then only occasionally, and in the Orthodox churches any sex between married people[also eating olive oil or butter, milk products eggs, fish or anything with blood in it] was forbidden for nine weeks before Easter, four weeks before Christmas, Four weeks before the Feast of the Assumption in August. Four weeks before the feast of the Apostles. see for example: http://www.abbamoses.com/fasting.html. Leaving altogether about two months a year to make hay. Legally, same sex couples were more restricted, but literally who was looking. They were equal as families before god and humanity. Fact. Throughout most of the human race, over the last 5000 years same sex unions have been blessed and recognized and forbidden and condemned and ignored. The Spanish Inquisition in the Americas burned about 100 Million gay people between 1500 and 1600 according to quite detailed archives in Spain. Throughout all the First Nations of Central South and North America same sex unions were considered ideal, and not just allowed but had a place of honor. 3. A lot of people hate gay people. A lot of people think hating gay people is OK. In Germany a lot of people liked Jews and Gypsies and queers and Muslims, but they elected a government whose purposes were to cleanse the state of perversity, defective humans, mental disorders, and Jews and Muslims, and Gypsies and queers and the retarded, and the mentally ill, and orphaned children of the poor were systematically cleansed from the Third Reich. That was their concept of democracy. In contrast, the Constitution of the USA forbids any ideological litmus test to human rights before the law. It is not anybody's business, before the law. Before science and history, those who want to take away my standing in a civil contract, and the rights of my family in family law are wrong, scientifically and historically and legally. Telling the victim that they are whining is beneath contempt. It is lower than low. It is as immoral, as cruel, as sick as anybody who watched the Christians being eaten alive and not saying no. Whether it is a vet with PTSD, a woman sexually abused by her legal mate, a child sexually abused by their parents, or any gay person in the USA: blaming the victim is inhuman. It takes people with zero moral IQ to tell us to stop complaining. And that we are sick to protest denial of basic human rights? Sick to deny we are rapists and child abusers? There are no words to convey the heartless mindless cruelty of any such person. That is abusive. As abusive as anybody who actually does commit rape and child abuse. I have an unlimited right to demand my basic human being before society, and anyone who denies me the right to stand up and fight for my rights is wrong. Believe what you want. Think what you want. BUT when you attack my family, don't dare tell me I can't protect them. "we are the change we have been waiting for" http://my.barackobama.com/page/outreach/view/main/fakirfund isa "hussein2" kocher

Fwd: [WHCworkshop] Re: vultures hovering

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Isa Kocher <786isa@gmail.com> Date: Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 9:45 PM Subject: Re: [WHCworkshop] Re: vultures hovering To: WHCworkshop@yahoogroups.com it rains coal smoke blankets the darkened city winter never knew roses were stupid my neighbor's rose garden blooms. winter rains. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Isa Kocher" <786isa@gmail.com> To: <WHCworkshop@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 12:01 PM Subject: Re: [WHCworkshop] Re: vultures hovering > it just happened no effort > > the war just happened > > as rumsfeld says things just happen > > change happens > > Bush says he wasn't prepared, didn't become president to wage any war, so > it all just happens > > > ooops, sorry. > > The interview is being replayed on venues like Air America > > > > " > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > ------------------------------------ > > To unsubscribe from this group, go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WHCworkshop. Select "Leave Group" > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > __._,_.___ Messages in this topic (13) Reply (via web post) | Start a new topic Messages | Files | Photos | Links To unsubscribe from this group, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WHCworkshop. Select "Leave Group" MARKETPLACE From kitchen basics to easy recipes - join the Group from Kraft Foods Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required) Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch format to Traditional Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe Recent Activity Visit Your Group Only on Yahoo! World of Star Wars Meet fans, watch videos & more. New business? Get new customers. List your web site in Yahoo! Search. Yahoo! Groups Going Green Zone Resources for a greener planet. Resources for a greener you.. __,_._,___ -- "WE are the CHANGE we are waiting for" http://my.barackobama.com/page/outreach/dashboard/main/fakirfund http://isafakir.multiply.com/ -- "WE are the CHANGE we are waiting for" http://my.barackobama.com/page/outreach/dashboard/main/fakirfund http://isafakir.multiply.com/