Long Shema Poems

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 sere skin
And we could see the humor blossoming in his...

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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 return each evening to find
warm food, 
welcoming faces...

consider whether this...

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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 were Jewish, both from the tribe of Judah, in the...

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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 ...

Consider: is this a "man"
who slogs through the mud,
who knows...

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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 ALL they desire
So why are you disappointed/surprised
That I don't have...

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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 right mind
Would have a warrior be a girl

....a man...it's gotta...

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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 added “love your neighbor 
as you love yourself.” That defines...

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  Twice a day
    a Jew must say
  ‘Shema Yisroel’ – ‘Hear, O Israel
    The Lord, our God, the Lord is One’ *

  Early morning, late...

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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. God is the Son. And God is
The Holy Spirit Where...

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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 to shadows stir and shift
saddened loss is set adrift
Kissed by...

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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 estate,not a word of this!
While Jews today are murdered, assaulted...

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After years of alienation 
   from my religion 
  and after having fun on many 
Friday nights at the beach or in a bar 
  Strangely enough, Shabbes has 
come to...

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