September 12, 2013 #754
Dear Subscriber:
This week’s poem of the week is a poem for Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement.
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
You find but little solace in success,
On which you long have hung your self-esteem.
Maybe you expected happiness,
Knowing how the self-important seem.
Instead, you feel a gnawing at the heart,
Perhaps because you know where you've gone wrong,
Purporting to be whole when you are part,
Unable yet to simply sing along,
Restored to worship by the grace of song.
© by Nicholas Gordon
Watch me recite the poem on YouTube at http://youtu.be/rPpG2SmHvoQ.
Dear Subscriber:
This week’s poem of the week is a poem for Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement.
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
You find but little solace in success,
On which you long have hung your self-esteem.
Maybe you expected happiness,
Knowing how the self-important seem.
Instead, you feel a gnawing at the heart,
Perhaps because you know where you've gone wrong,
Purporting to be whole when you are part,
Unable yet to simply sing along,
Restored to worship by the grace of song.
© by Nicholas Gordon
Watch me recite the poem on YouTube at http://youtu.be/rPpG2SmHvoQ.
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