May 12, 2021
Dear Subscriber:
Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is religion.
I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.
A poem for Eid al-Fitr about the benefits of religious fasting:
Each fast
is like a cleansing of the soul
In which one's thoughts are purified
by prayer,
Deepened by connection to the whole
As one becomes somehow more simply
there.
Leaving the sweet holiday behind,
Families feast to bid it fond
farewell.
If Ramadan rewards the heart and
mind,
The feast rewards the long-neglected
shell
Returning to the palace of the
wind.
© by Nicholas Gordon
To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/eachfa.html. For more poems about religion, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/religiouspoems.html.
This week’s theme: Religion.
May 10: The Wave Without Becomes a Wave Within
May11: How Might One Untie the Knot
May 12: Each Fast Is like a Cleansing of the Soul
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Nick
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