Leonard Nimoy



Leonard Nimoy is a man of many and considerable talents. As an actor he has ranged from Star Trek's indomitable, inscrutable Mr. Spock, to Tevye in the musical Fiddler on the Roof, to Vincent Van Gogh in the one-man stage show Vincent. He has also appeared in plays such as Oliver!, The King And I, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Camelot, Twelfth Night, The Man in the Glass Booth, Caligula, and Sherlock Holmes. But Nimoy is more than an entertainer: in 1997 he narrated the A Life Apart: Hasidism in America, about the various sects of Hasidic Orthodox Jews, and he received an Emmy nomination for best supporting actor for the 1982 TV film A Woman Called Golda, to go with his three Emmy nominations for Star Trek. He has also directed three of the best-selling movies of all time: two Star Trek blockbusters and Three Men and a Baby. Nimoy is also an accomplished photographer, vocalist, writer and poet, and what we'd like to focus on here is his poetry and his art, simply because poetry and art are our particular focus. We encourage our visitors to use this page as a launching point to further explore the mystical and spiritual aspects of Nimoy's work, particularly his photography. As visitors who have explored our Mysterious Ways, Grace Notes, Thanksgiving and Holocaust poetry pages know, we have raised the rallying cry for poets and artists to move beyond trivial poems about oddly named flowers, intellectual treatises masquerading as "art," and ironic, dispassionate murals of seemingly endless inconsequence. In the past, poets and artists have "boldly gone where no man has gone before" and perhaps it's more than a slight contrivance or connivance of Fate that our path has crossed Nimoy's at this hopefully critical juncture. Nimoy has an outstanding on-line photography website only a mouseclick away at ...

www.leonardnimoyphotography.com

... where many of the images are absolutely stunning, and copies of SHEKHINA–personally autographed by the author–and signed prints are available. SHEKHINA is a photographic study of women which visualizes the feminine aspect of God's presence.



Photograph by Leonard Nimoy, all rights reserved

"I have long admired Leonard Nimoy’s bewitching photographs. Now, with the publication of Shekhina, I understand the importance of his urgent and paradoxical quest to make the invisible visible. He has revealed the feminine aspect of spirituality in all its complex beauty." – Erica Jong

Photograph by Leonard Nimoy, all rights reserved

Leonard Nimoy's books, which include I am not Spock, I am Spock, Warmed by Love, Will I Think of You, These Words Are for You, Come Be With Me (Poems) and A Lifetime of Love: Poems on the Passages of Life, are available at www.amazon.com. Immediately below you will find poems of his that are warming, comforting and encouraging ...



Today,
Time has stopped.
A minute is still a minute.
An hour is still an hour.
And yet,
The past and the future
Hang in perfect balance.
All focused on the present.
A sweet flow of excitement
Warms me.
You are near.



I am convinced 
That if all mankind
Could only gather together
In one circle
Arms around each other's shoulders
And dance, laugh and cry
            Together
      Then much
           of the tension and burden
                       of life
           Would fall away
In the knowledge that
We are all children
Needing and wanting
Each other's
Comfort and
Understanding
We are all children
Searching for love



In my heart
Is the seed of the tree
Which will be me.
Nourished by understanding
Warmed by friends
Fed by loved ones
Matured by wisdom
Tempered by tears.

I am an incurable romantic
I believe in hope, dreams and decency

     I believe in love,
     Tenderness and kindness.

I believe in mankind.

     I believe in goodness,
     Mercy and charity
     I believe in a universal spirit
     I believe in casting bread
     Upon the waters.

          I am awed by the snow-capped mountains
          By the vastness of oceans.

               I am moved by a couple
               Of any age – holding hands
               As they walk through city streets.

          A living creature in pain
          Makes me shudder with sorrow
          A seagull’s cry fills me
          With a sense of mystery.

               A river or stream
               Can move me to tears
               A lake nestling in a valley
               Can bring me peace.

I wish for all mankind
The sweet simple joy
That we have found together.

I know that it will be.
And we shall celebrate
We shall taste the wine
And the fruit.

Celebrate the sunset and the sunrise
              the cold and the warmth
              the sounds and the silences
              the voices of the children.

Celebrate the dreams and hopes
Which have filled the souls of
All decent men and women.

              We shall lift our glasses and toast
              With tears of joy.



I love you
not for what
I want you to be
But for what you are

I loved you then
For what you were
I love you now
for what you have become

I miss you
And not only you

I miss what I am
When you are here...
You bring out the best in me