September 28, 2017
Dear Subscriber:
Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of
view. This week’s theme is Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, which
begins on the evening of September 29. The ten days between Rosh Hashanah (the
Jewish New Year) and Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement) are a time when one’s
repentance may affect whether one is written into the book of life or the book
of death for the coming year.
Today’s poem is a poem for Yom Kippur about the desire to be
known and loved by God.
I welcome comments on my poems at
https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.
Yours,
Nick Gordon
You are not, will not, do not what you dream.
One accepts that one cannot be pure.
Moreover, there are sins you should redeem.
Kindness, however, makes you feel secure.
In you there is a longing to be known,
Peered right through, as sun lights up a room,
Perhaps just as you promise to atone,
Understood and loved while your doom
Remains clay, not yet hardened into stone.
© by Nicholas Gordon
Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I
chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/youar9.html.
For more poems for Yom Kippur, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/yomkippurpoems.html
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This week’s theme: Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement
September 25: Holiness and Faith Are the Rewards
September 26: How Might I, in Faith, Do as You Ask
September 27: You’d Like a Shot at Serious Redemption
September 28: You Are Not, Will Not, Do Not What You Dream
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