Passion Is the Wine, and Love, the Glass

March 27, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The twin themes for this week are Passover and Easter, which this year are celebrated at the same time. The first night of Passover is the evening of Good Friday, March 30, and Easter Sunday is April 1.

Today’s poem is a Passover poem about how ritual shapes and enriches life.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Passion is the wine, and love, the glass,

As ritual reserves the times for drinking.

So life gathers dignity and mass,

Sustained by scripts that free the mind for thinking.

Our love waits upon the white-robed table.

Vintage holy fills our hearts with joy.

Elijah* comes, that wanderer of fable,

Restoring what the wide world would destroy.

*Jewish legend has the prophet Elijah wandering the world to protect Jewish households. At the Seder, a glass is filled with wine for him and the door is opened while the celebrants sing his song.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/passi4.html. For more Easter poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/easterpoems.html . For more Passover poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/passoverpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Easter and Passover

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March 27: Passion Is the Wine, and Love, the Glass