September 21, 2018
Dear Subscriber:
Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of
view. The theme for this week is good and evil in honor of Yom Kippur, the
Jewish Day of Atonement, which begins on September 18.
I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com
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A poem about the causes of corruption and what one can do
about it:
The problem isn’t simply one of
rules.
Corruption is a matter of the
heart
In which one’s inner music plays
its part,
Cacophony that makes chords sound
like fools.
One cannot teach integrity in
schools,
Nor sell it through philosophy or
art,
Nor fashion it from fear, nor
from the start
Build it with a set of legal
tools.
All these are well and good, and
should be done.
But one must change the music if
one would
Reduce corruption to a rare
disease.
One dances to a tune, for there
is none
Not moved by music. So sing! And
your voice could
Restore a bit of virtue by degrees.
© by Nicholas Gordon
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This week’s theme: Good and Evil
9/21: The Problem Isn’t Simply One of Rules
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