August 8, 2013 #749
Dear Subscriber:
This week’s poem of the week is a poem for Eid al-Fitr.
You can hear me read the poem and listen to the music for it at my site by going to http://www.poemsforfree.com/week.html.
Yours,
Nick Gordon
Each fast is like a cleansing of the soul
In which one's thoughts are purified by prayer,
Deepened by connection to the whole
As one becomes somehow more simply there.
Leaving the sweet holiday behind,
Families feast to bid it fond farewell.
If Ramadan rewards the heart and mind,
The feast rewards the long-neglected shell
Returning to the palace of the wind.
© by Nicholas Gordon
Watch me recite the poem on YouTube at http://youtu.be/2kus4XznEFw.
Dear Subscriber:
This week’s poem of the week is a poem for Eid al-Fitr.
You can hear me read the poem and listen to the music for it at my site by going to http://www.poemsforfree.com/week.html.
Yours,
Nick Gordon
Each fast is like a cleansing of the soul
In which one's thoughts are purified by prayer,
Deepened by connection to the whole
As one becomes somehow more simply there.
Leaving the sweet holiday behind,
Families feast to bid it fond farewell.
If Ramadan rewards the heart and mind,
The feast rewards the long-neglected shell
Returning to the palace of the wind.
© by Nicholas Gordon
Watch me recite the poem on YouTube at http://youtu.be/2kus4XznEFw.
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