Long Kippur Poems

~ We Need  A  Savior  ~ 
( Prose Poem  ) 
 

~O~


Sometimes when we think so much about tomorrow we get so concerned n stressed about it. In minutes or in...

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The Alaskan Oil Pipeline

Nineteen sixty-eight confirmed the year
Of discovery by ‘Humble Oil’
To North America’s largest oil field,
On the North Slope of the Brooks Range;
A west to east Northern Alaskan mountain chain.
An area forty miles wide...

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In future data, accords the claimants henceforward Christians know or, should know--that both Mary & Joseph were Hebrews and devout status to their faith, was seldomly noted scripturally. After all, in the early stages, one...

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Rosh Hashshana 2023

Began at sunset 
on Friday, Sept. 15, 
and ends at sunset 
on Sunday, Sept. 17.

No matter yours truly an atheist, 
I consider myself 
fascinated with my Semitic ancestry
(maybe unwittingly genealogically 
linkedin with unsuspecting...

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No matter yours truly an atheist, 
I consider myself fascinated with my ancestry
x cited regarding: upcoming
Jewish holiday fast approaching 
by the bewitching hour which doth hold key
to Chamber Of Secrets to – me
analogous being Sorcerer's...

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September has suddenly begun with a tingling in the 10 toes
Just standing and waiting on the Son but no one really knows
But with His every new sign in using the sky as His billboard
For many,...

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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...

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Theodore Herzl's, "If you will it's no dream"
Lord Balfour's declaration gave it more steam
   Hebron's Massacre and Arab Riots
   White Paper's Rejection and Hitler's 'Zeig-Heil-It'
Nothing deterred us, no matter how extreme.

The...

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700 Jews dead on the latest Holy Day
     50 years to the day since the Yom Kippur Fray

   Hamas celebrations to be short-lived
     as Israel...

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My friend, do you know me?
   I am a Pharisee
No, not per the dictionary
  Which mischaracterizes my beliefs and me

For while he keeps the tradition, it's true
  A Pharisee's an ever-evolving...

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Fifty years ago today
     an attack was well underway
     On Yom Kippur, October 6
       Israel was in a fix

  ...

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The word for 'sin' in Hebrew's 'chayt'*
The dictionary says, but wait --
It really doesn't mean 'to sin'
That meaning is a bit of spin....

'Chayt' really means (to) miss the mark
You take your best shot 'in the...

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SHADOWS ARE ME


I am there, but I am not.  
I seem to be, but how could I?  
I am my pain, which can’t be seen.  
A shadow of yesterday, smoke in your...

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Another war, another truce
    Israel leaves so many ends loose, and yet
  Dozens die, so Thousands may live
    The horrific result full-scale war might give

  The Jewish...

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     The vestments of Aaron the High Priest stood out
       Their striking beauty brought about 

     heightened expectations from the hushed...

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Dear Robert
          I'm enclosing the warranty
                    ...

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The music 
          has stopped
 and the piano bench is now 
empty
      He brought the gift 
of music to thousands of...

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Purgatory is a place according to Catholicism,
where we go after we die to pay for our sins.
If your sins haven't been atoned for
you're not getting into Heaven's doors,
but again, according to Catholicism
during the Holy time...

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Oh how I wish we were together for Christmas
I would wrap this poem up for you
Placing it gingerly with my love and care for you
Surprised you would be if I popped out to wish you

A...

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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...

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In Jerusalem's Holy Temple
  the High Priest entered
the Holy-of-Holies once a year
  on that Holiest of Days, Yom Kippur

From the top of his exotic, oriental turban
  dressed for the occasion was he
Dazzling...

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Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur
  Day of Judgment, Day of Atonement
    
Weeping openly in synagogue
  Praying for our very lives
As if our hair were on fire...

Sukkoth, Festival of Tabernacles
  Celebrating...

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The day overwhelms me
  I stand naked before the Creator
My sins and stains exposed
  on this, the Day of Atonement

How can one atone for all the iniquities
  of the year that has...

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Through the years you hunted me
Your sword and spear pierced through me
Leaving no mark of wound to show
But in me many flow
From which I couldn't flee.

Flee! Flee!!, I plead myself
Yet still I stood like a...

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In Hebrew, “erev,” (evening)
Means the ending and the start,
Both happening together,
Nothing setting them apart.

For at sundown, daytime’s over
But all holidays begin,
As most Jewish people celebrate;
That’s how it’s always been.

So the night that comes before,
We say...

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