Best Yom Poems

I’m sorry, honey.
  O.K. I accept your apology.
No, wait. Hold on.
  What is it? 
I mean it. I'm really sorry.
  Are you?
Yes, I am.
  How would I know?
I’ve thought about what I’ve done.
  That’s it?
And I’m never going to do...

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Christians have their Lent,
40 days of atonement,
sacrificing something of enjoyment.
When those 40 days of atonement comes to an end,
if you have not indulged once your sacrifice of enjoyment,
all of your past sins get forgiven.
Yom Kippur, now that's a deal I could sink my teeth in.
One...

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No one makes it through life whole without the
Branding: marks, scars, tattoos that testify
To sorrows endur’d, bitter pills swallow’d;
Some say the inner invisible ones
Wounds deepest.  My tattoo on the forearm
Pierces through to my soul like a sliver
Infected, pussy, smarting constantly—
I was sub-human, thought expendable.
“Schneller!...

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Tonight, I miss God, though I doubt he IS;
All sense of Providence stripped away
Like my wife’s gray smock last time I saw her
Walking naked and welted to showers
From whence the sole cleansing is soul release
From this chamber of horrors which now is
Our life. Dirty Jood...

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The next time or any time any schmuck calls me or  thinks of me as a dirty or filthy jew. To them I say," Hey, only if I can help it!" so there! sorry, depends. (posted on yom kippor)....

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The holiday has come
The day to atone for one's sins
The rabbi gave a good talk 
about immigration 
It is a terrible thing 
that children are being taken from their parents 
in the U.S.A.
The healing part of the service came 
I was healed from a terrible...

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Thoughts on Visiting the Holocaust Memorial Museum in DC 
 
Sam Adams  
Had never been  
To the Holocaust Museum,  
 
Despite the fact  
He had lived  
And worked in DC for decades  
 
One day after he retired 
He...

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Yom Kippur
 
On Yom Kippur, the day of atonement
The Priests did acts to prevent God’s disownment.
 
Two goats to the desert so God’s Law is fulfilled,
One goes free and the other is killed.
 
One killed for God to meet his appraisal
The other set free for...

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