AVI BINUR: MERCY GATE בָּרוּךְ הַשֵׁם

Passover 5771

Only "128 hits"?! That has to be the epitome of injustice or a strange anomaly, akin to Green Tzirah.

Hoshea 12:2Efrayim joins the wind and chases the east wind.

Asian trees bear strange fruit
Blood on the reeds and blood at the Rut
Brown bellies swaying in the Eastern Breeze
Strange fruits hanging from the Cypress trees

Junglist scene of the Bamboo south
The slanted eyes and the razor mouth
Cent of rice terraces, sticky and fresh
Then the sudden stink of burning flesh

Here are Prutas for Paro to pluck
For the rain to wash out, for the wind to suck
For Thy Sons to spoil, for Dragons to drop
Here is the estranged and bitter crop:

Deliman in Little India mistook me for being Indian yesterday. Told him I was of Filipinim extraction, although my sister married a Guyanese-Indian-Mongolian. I think he meant Mizoram.

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Walang ligaya sa lupa na hindi dinilig ng luha.

Filipino Proverb: There is no earthly bliss not watered by tears.

Bnei Lot are of an ancient origin. In the migratory tradition of Ruth begun more than two millennia ago, a remnant of David and Solomon migrated into Maritime Southeast Asia which comprises what is now Brunei, East Timor, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, The Philippines, and Singapore, as well as Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia, with a sizeable minority of Malays migrating back to their tribal allotments in Sephardic Judah, besides Terrestrial and Figurative Jordan.