Revelation Leads to Revolution

September 24, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, which began on the evening of September 20 and ended on the evening of September 22. The ten days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement) are a time when one’s repentance may affect whether one is written into the book of life or the book of death for the coming year.

Today’s poem is a Rosh Hashanah poem about the need for God and religion if we are to repent for sin.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Revelation leads to revolution,

Or isn't much of anything at all.

So must faith evolve into religion,

Having need of help to break its fall.

Here we have a chance to reconsider,

As we go through rites as brisk as breath,

Salvaging a soul that else were bitter,

Here alone, for nothing else but death.

All our love and wonder needs a Name,

Not least to be the witness of our shame

As we recite our sins again, again,

Hallowed by our passion and our pain.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Rosh Hashanah

September 18: Righteousness Ought Not Be for One’s Self

September 19: Remember the Utility of Shame

September 20: Return Each Year to Test the Ancient Waters

September 21: Rosh Hashanah Opens to the Page

September 22: Rosh Hashanah Opens Up the Book

September 23: Reason Ought Not Be the Enemy

September 24: Revelation Leads to Revolution