Famous Kippur Poems by Famous Poets
These are examples of famous Kippur poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous kippur poems. These examples illustrate what a famous kippur poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).
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by
Pinsky, Robert
...fted
Than Whitey Ford: A Dodger.
People were amazed by him.
Once, when he was young,
He refused to pitch on Yom Kippur....Read more of this...
by
Amichai, Yehuda
...you've got to have a tan.
But sometimes I feel like the thin veils
of Jewish women who faint
at weddings and on Yom Kippur.
You mustn't show weakness
and you've got to make a list
of all the things you can load
in a baby carriage without a baby.
This is the way things stand now:
if I pull out the stopper
after pampering myself in the bath,
I'm afraid that all of Jerusalem, and with it the whole world,
will drain out into the huge darkness.
In the daytime I ...Read more of this...
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