Remember, Please, the Reason for Your Fasting

May 28, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Ramadan, a holy month for Muslims which begins on May 27.

Today’s poem is a Ramadan poem about the purpose of fasting.

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Remember, please, the reason for your fasting.

A body ought to live beyond the body,

More focused on a life that's everlasting

As all that must be clothed and shod turns shoddy,

Disintegrating slowly into dust,

Amazed, despite well knowing that it must.

Nor is salvation simply for the asking.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/remem4.html. For more Ramadan poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/ramadanpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Ramadan

May 22: Righteousness Is Not Self-Righteousness

May 23: Religion Must Touch More than Mind and Heart

May 24: Return to the Sweet Discipline of Faith

May 25: Roam Anywhere You Wish, and Then Return

May 26: Reason Without Faith Is Pure Relation

May 27: Right Action Is the Mother of Right Feeling

May 28: Remember, Please, the Reason for Your Fasting