April 24, 2016
Dear Subscriber:
Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of
view. The theme for this week is faith and Jewish identity, in honor of
Passover, which begins on the evening of April 22.
Today’s poem is a Passover, or Pesach, poem about how a
ritual meal makes a myth real.
I welcome comments on my poems at http://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.
Yours,
Nick Gordon
People are a people by design,
Embracing who they were by who they are.
So does history become a meal,
A ritual that makes a memory real,
Calcifying what, beyond the bar,
Has not the substance of a glass of wine.
© by Nicholas Gordon
Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I
chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/people.html.
For more Passover poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/passoverpoems.html
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This week’s theme: Faith and Jewish Identity.
April 19: How Best Can We Remember We Were Slaves
April 20: Part of Being Jewish Is a Choice
April 21: Perhaps Your Only Ritual Is the Seder
April 22: Palpably, You Are in This Room
April 23: Pretend There Were No Memories
April 24: People Are a People by Design
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