Praised Be Those Who Don't Believe the Tale
A Passover poem about continuing the tradition of the Seder even without faith in God. © by Nicholas Gordon. Video Music: Dream of the Ancestor. By Asher Fulero. Music free to use at YouTube.
Time After Time They Come to Destroy Us
A Passover poem about national survival. © by Nicholas Gordon. Video Music: Elegy. By Asher Fulero. Music free to use at YouTube.
Please Be Assured that What You Read Is True
A Passover poem about how myths become themselves historical truths. © by Nicholas Gordon. Video Music: Wandering Soul. By Asher Fulero. Music free to use at YouTube.
Perhaps Your Only Ritual Is the Seder
A Passover poem about the ritual of the Seder for non-religious Jews. © by Nicholas Gordon. Video Music: We Are the Rain. By Aakash Gandhi. Music free to use at YouTube.
Perhaps This Is No Time for Telling Tales
A Passover poem about the ethics of celebrating an escape from slavery when slavery still exists. © by Nicholas Gordon. Video Music: Chariots of War. By Aakash Gandhi. Music free to use at YouTube.
People Are a People by Design
A Passover poem about how a national identity can be created and sustained. © by Nicholas Gordon. Video Music: Allégro. By Emmit Fenn. Music free to use at YouTube.
Passover Seders Are like the Night Sky
A Passover poem about the Seder Haggadah as a panoply of rituals and prayers from millennia of Jewish history. © by Nicholas Gordon. Video Music: Sharp Senses. By Ugonna Onyekwe. Music free to use at YouTube.
You Pray Not for Yourself Alone but All
A poem for Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, about the communal dimension of sin: You pray not for yourself alone but all. One never chooses sin in isolation. Most evil is not merely personal. Kindness looks for common inspiration. In every act th
Easter and Passover Are About
A poem to a child of mixed heritage about choosing a religion: Easter and Passover are about Some pretty serious things: One, a crucifixion, and The other, slavery. But they tell of miracles, The kind from which faith springs: One, a resurrection, and O
Years Pass, the Sins Remain
A poem for Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, about the need for faith and love: Years pass, the sins remain; One repents, each year the same; More regrets, little change; Knowledge waxes, knowledge wanes. In faith and love one finds a shore, Pres
Caleb Makes It to the Promised Land
A name poem for Caleb, whose faith in God is rewarded by being allowed to reach the promised land: Caleb makes it to the promised land, A last survivor of the wilderness. Long has he longed to mingle with that sand, Each particle now part of home, nor le
Palpably, You Are in This Room
A Passover poem about the presence of God at the Seder: Palpably, You are in this room, A presence just as certain as our own, Singing with us -- family friend, well-known -- Someone, not just something we assume. One can know You only intimately. Vast a
Remorse Is Not a Synonym for Shame
A poem for Rosh Hashanah comparing remorse to shame. © by Nicholas Gordon Audio and Video Music: Nocturne. By Asher Fulero. Music free to use at YouTube. To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/remors.html. For more poems for th
Yes, There Is a Lot One Need Atone for
A poem for Yom Kippur about the need to atone for what you failed to do as much as for what you did. © by Nicholas Gordon Audio and Video Music: Allégro. By Emmit Fenn. Music free to use at YouTube. To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsf
How Explain the Miracle of Light
A Hanukkah poem about the miracle of light. © by Nicholas Gordon Audio and Video Music: Wander. By Emmit Fenn. Music free to use at YouTube. To see this poem on my site, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/howexp.html. For more Hanukkah poems, go to htt