Gershon Wolf Poet Couplet

A Blessing and a Curse

Behold! Father sets before you a blessing and a curse
    Then he says, 'Choose the blessing; you could do worse.'

  'Am I,' you reply, 'a bit odd or perverse?'
    'Why would I choose the curse?' ... 

  A stranger appears at a fork in the road
  He urges caution: 'These roses you see at the start
    may turn to brambles and thorns after we part.'  
  'Which is the blessing and which is the curse
    may look like the truth but wind up the obverse.' ... 

  'Now I'm really confused,' you confess with a sigh
    'but I trust you, father, to explain me the wherefore and why'

  'Well then, my dear: There's a curse lies in every silver spoon'
    It's from shovels of dirt that true blessing is hewn.' 


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   Based on Deuteronomy 11: 26-28. (Torah portion - 'Re'eh').

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John Lawless August 9, 2023 at 6:24 AM as the chicken leg said on the way to the fridge..."curses....foiled again!"....No matter which "end of the stick" we choose we still get both ends.

Unseeking Seeker August 8, 2023 at 11:14 PM simply by following love’s scent, ensured is our soul’s ascent

Shirley Hawkins August 8, 2023 at 7:55 PM It is sometimes difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff. Confusius, say??? Gershon Wolf August 9, 2023 at 5:34 PM Confusius! How did you know my family name before my grandpa came to America?! :)