Best Shema Poems

The milky morning’s Saturn haze
Haloed the sun’s neonate phase
Seize the warmth, Hail to The Light!
No waspish thoughts to sting nor bite
this soft and cheerful face.

Shades...

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Shema ("Listen")
by Primo Levi
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

You who live secure
in your comfortable homes,
who return each evening to find
warm food and a hearty welcome...

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There is a bench
Under the Tree of Life
...no meaning
There is a church
Ringing a bell, at the end
...no salvation
There is a dorm
Waiting to be filled
...no companion
There...

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You have failed to properly bury your dead.
Your heroes and martyrs lie instead 
In shallow graves and trenches
Where the stench of their decay 
Is overpowering.
As...

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Origin of Christianity

(If you don't like religious writes don't read on)

It may surprise some that Jesus was born a Jew, his parents Joseph and Mary...

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From the time of Pentecost to now;
People have formed many denominations.

Searching for truths that are sound doctrine;
Denominations were formed due to dissensions.

God is the Father....

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After years of alienation 
   from my religion 
  and after having fun on many 
Friday nights at the beach or in...

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He paces the floor
Waiting for a word
But the silence is deafening
Only his anxiety being heard

What is to come
What will be of this world
Who in their...

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Its just a thing
Everybody can claim
Some show it
Others don't
Its not bad
Its humane
Comes to and fro
Some beleive it should go
They musn't realize
Its here to stay
Like a...

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A Stolen Memory
A Mirthful Chorus
By Sy Roth 


We surrounded him 
Asked to let go.
She stared at the misshapen face,
Unshaven sandpapery skin 
Eyelids a tabula rasa
Fluttery...

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Holocaust Remembrance Day, 2019
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Today, we honor those whose lives were cruelly taken!
They suffered gruesome deaths and were inhumanely forsaken.

Frightening, how we heard from the fourth...

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A Pharisee once asked Jesus 
“What’s the greatest commandment?”
He answered with the age-old Shema. 

“Love your God with your heart, soul and mind.”
and then he...

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World War II Poems and Holocaust Poems - IV - Primo Levi

Shema
by Primo Levi
translation by Michael R. Burch

You who live secure
in your comfortable houses, 
who...

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Maybe I misunderstood
When I agreed to honor your request
Half belongs to me
And the other, I choose to invest
....in loving you

Boundaries are important
No one can have...

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  Twice a day
    a Jew must say
  ‘Shema Yisroel’ – ‘Hear, O Israel
    The Lord, our...

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