The rabbi gave a sermon
Which I listened to on Zoom,
Her Jewish New Year message
Somehow piped into the room.
The theme this year was kindness,
Which seemed very apropos
Since the world’s so full of hatred
There’s no space for love to grow.
If we all try just a little bit
To treat each other well
And give help to those in need
Perhaps some pain we can dispel.
It wouldn’t take much effort if
Enough of us joined in.
Some small displays of kindness
Is the way we can begin.
We shouldn’t need a rabbi
To remind us of this fact
Or a holiday to force us
To remember how to act.
Categories:
rosh, holiday, jewish,
Form: Rhyme
The rabbi gave a sermon
Which I listened to on Zoom,
Her Jewish New Year message
Somehow piped into the room.
The theme this year was kindness,
Which seemed very apropos
Since the world’s so full of hatred
There’s no space for love to grow.
If we all try just a little bit
To treat each other well
And give help to those in need
Perhaps some pain we can dispel.
It wouldn’t take much effort if
Enough of us joined in.
Some small displays of kindness
Is the way we can begin.
We shouldn’t need a rabbi
To remind us of this fact
Or a holiday to force us
To remember how to act.
Categories:
rosh, holiday, jewish,
Form: Rhyme
Happy New Year, Dear Friends!
September30, 2019
Ah, apples with honey.
Clipped or spiraled or Round Challah,
so yummy!
And prayers for a sweet year.
Oh, such a treat.
For both eternal souls and for
human tummies.
But better your prayers to Hashem
be filled with gratitude,
You know these fruits are His plenitude.
This poet honors all Jews and
Israel your great nation!
Which your enemies are always
planning for your devastation!
It just pains me to see anti-Semitism
on the rise now.
Even in our Congress!
As the very far left,to The Squad,
disgustingly has now cow-towed.
I would volunteer in Israel if
only I could.
Israel will stand strong despite
the multiple snakes,
That have tried to destroy your
country and you.
These vile. perverted, evil snakes!
So keep your traditions and do
have a sweet year!
May you all be written in the
book of Life!
Have no fear!
La Shanah Tova!
Love and joy be yours!
Panagiota Romios
Categories:
rosh, celebration, courage, jewish, pride,
Form: Rhyme
Buy a challah - make it round.
Cook some kasha - lightly browned.
Bake a brisket, with a mound
Of onions on the top.
Lots of vino to be downed.
Honey cakes to add a pound.
Hugs and wishes to abound
And smiles that never stop.
Hear the shofar's plaintive sound.
Links to childhood somehow found.
Ready now - we're New Year bound -
New sins to which we'll cop!
(Rosh Hashanah is the Jewish New Year,
where whatever sins you've committed
in the past year are erased.)
Categories:
rosh, holiday, jewish,
Form: Rhyme
WHOSE MESSIAH: Happy Rosh Hashanah
Upon a tree, He was displayed ignominiously
Arms stretched from East to West for our Shabbat Rest
Body pulled along the North-South axis
That is the price of Love, the width of Shalom
You ask if the Creator erred in allowing the Fall
Or had He erred in permitting Eve to succumb
Yet He, Himself did atone, Messiah took the Cross & paid it all
Love paid it all to have my errant human heart
How wonderfully cruel, How powerfully glorious
Confounding: God upon a Cross, naked and pulled apart
Prodigal in Forgiveness, Wholeness, Scarred and Righteous.
(c)A.Deo, 9/21/2017
Categories:
rosh, bible, god, holiday, jesus,
Form: Rhyme
I listen to the ancient prayers
I've heard for all my life -
Before I was a nana
Or a mother or a wife.
I hear them only once a year
And though I know the tunes
I haven't felt entrenched
Like I once was in many moons.
Yet still I go to temple
And I think, as prayers are read,
That I'll always be connected,
Though by just the thinnest thread.
Categories:
rosh, jewish,
Form: Rhyme