April 14, 2017
Dear Subscriber:
Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of
view. The twin themes for this week are Passover, the first night of which
falls on April 10, and Easter, which falls on April 16.
Today’s poem is a Passover and Easter poem about the need
for doubt.
I welcome comments on my poems at
http://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.
Yours,
Nick Gordon
Perhaps Christ rose from
the dead; perhaps He didn’t.
And Moses
may, or not, have split the sea.
So must
faith supply what reason doesn’t,
Singing
of how better life could be.
Ought
one, can one pick and choose one’s truth,
Vested
heavily in being right,
Even
tailoring measurements to suit
Revelations
seen in ambient light?
Even as
one seals one’s certainties,
A bit of
doubt should slip into the soul,
Sent to
complicate one’s harmonies
That one
might hear the richness of the whole.
Each
truth’s a light that ought not make one blind:
Radiant, yes, but
gentle, shy, and kind.
© by Nicholas Gordon
Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I
chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/perha9.html.
For more poems about religion, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/religiouspoems.html
.
This week’s theme: Easter and Passover
April 10: Religions Live in a Crowded Neighborhood
April 11: Easter and Pesach, Eternally Linked
April 12: Every Religion Has Blood on Its Hands
April 13: Easter and Passover Go Together
April 14: Perhaps Christ Rose from the Dead; Perhaps He Didn’t
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