
Leah
Lubin will present her poetry as part of the Petaluma Poetry Walk at the Aqus
Café, Foundry Wharf, 189 H Street, Petaluma on Sunday, September 18, 2016, 6:00
to 8:00 pm, on a program with J. R. Brady, Karen Melander Magoon, Erica Goss
and Susan Weinstein.
Leah
Lubin is an author and artist. She was
born in Israel, grew up in England, and now makes her home in Woodside,
California. Leah recently completed her
first novel, Between Two Worlds,
along with nine poetry books. The poetry
compilations, Continent of Light,
published in 2011, and World of Change,
published in 2014, include her work.
Leah’s
short story, An Artist’s Fairytale,
first appeared in Detail, A Journal of Art Criticism, published by the Women’s
Caucus for Art, in September 1997.
In
1998, the Leonardo Electronic Almanac, published by the MIT Press, presented
her short story, I Paint the Cosmos.
The April, July, and November 2000 issues contained parts one, two and three of
a series titled An Artist's View of Space
Science.
Leah
has also written a column, A Personal
View, for CoastViews Magazine.
America’s
only national British newspaper, Union Jack, recently published two articles by
Leah.
Leah is listed in Poets & Writers (www.pw.org) under both the
creative writing and poetry categories.
Earth School
by Leah Lubin
Home
School,
Earth School.
Life on the line.
We are finally figuring out the truth.
Earth School.
Life on the line.
We are finally figuring out the truth.
It’s
no picnic down here.
Apparently these hardships
and lessons mean something.
Apparently these hardships
and lessons mean something.
So
is the plan to move forward you ask?
Well, sort of, but what you
think is important sometimes isn’t.
Well, sort of, but what you
think is important sometimes isn’t.
So
what’s the point?
I think it is to keep going by learning
and questioning yourself and others.
I think it is to keep going by learning
and questioning yourself and others.
Then
what happens?
Does it eventually get easier?
On some levels, yes.
But generally speaking there seems to be
a path that can be called self improvement.
Does it eventually get easier?
On some levels, yes.
But generally speaking there seems to be
a path that can be called self improvement.
We
take what we now understand as our
personal truth which helps lead us.
Do we eventually graduate and is there
a diploma involved?
Not sure, but when it becomes clear,
I will let you know.
personal truth which helps lead us.
Do we eventually graduate and is there
a diploma involved?
Not sure, but when it becomes clear,
I will let you know.
Rebel, Rebel, What Now?
by Leah Lubin
When
overcome with
complex personal issues,
one asks one self
rebel, rebel, what now?
complex personal issues,
one asks one self
rebel, rebel, what now?
Defining
progress takes work.
I pace myself to complete and
continue the journey.
I pace myself to complete and
continue the journey.
Amongst
flowers and ashes,
dusk and dawn.
I encourage the rebel side of
me to a rebirth.
dusk and dawn.
I encourage the rebel side of
me to a rebirth.
Don’t
just linger in the past.
Come forward and demand
your future.
Because without you, I am lost.
Come forward and demand
your future.
Because without you, I am lost.
Frozen
in niceness, but no longer
interested, I realize now that who
I really am is more complicated
than I originally thought.
interested, I realize now that who
I really am is more complicated
than I originally thought.
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