Recently, Ricky Rapoport Friesem was named International Senior Poet Laureate by the U.S. Amy Kitchener Foundation, an honor she received for her poem Afterlife. Rapoport Friesem, who is married to Prof. Asher Friesem of the Physics of Complex Systems Department, headed the Institute’s Communications Department for many years.
Her first poetry collection, Parentheses, won first prize in the Writer's Digest 2007 International Poetry Book Awards. Her second collection, Laissez-Faire, was published in 2009. Her poems, which have appeared in numerous publications, reflect the insight that comes with maturity; she expresses herself in a forthright manner, in the language of everyday life.
Rapoport Friesem is the second Israeli to receive the Amy Kitchener Foundation prize. Helen Bar-Lev received the prize last year. Bar-Lev is the editor of the poetry collection, Cyclamens and Swords, in which Afterlife first appeared.
Afterlife
Strange to think this teapot will live on long after me and someone else will pour the tea and maybe for a fleeting moment see my image think of me there pouring tea and then the talk will flow and wash away the flotsam thought and they will sit there drinking tea around my teapot without me.
The Two of Us
We walk together hand in hand and only I can tell you’ve left me once again to dally in a realm I’ll never know where perfect numbers rule.
First Words
See cars a red one and a blue and there’s a truck It’s yellow.
Hear doggy woof and kitty meow and way up in the sky helicopter goes chop chop airplane roars vroom vroom and far away the rockets land Listen. Boom boom boom.
A Marriage
He lives in his head she, in the eyes of others he focuses, she scans he ambles, she leaps
But when the music starts to play, they meld, they sway, they bend they dance, as if the dancing were enough. Perhaps it is.
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