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.
Easter and Passover, Eternally Linked
An Easter and Passover poem about the historical link between the two holidays. © by Nicholas Gordon. Video and Audio Music: Elegy. By Wayne Jones. Music free to use at YouTube.
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
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