Ryf,
What an interesting poem. My favourite part is "Laughing we cry as hot meets
sweet". This is resonant and condensed to good effect. My least favourite is
"Today bright as divinity eastern clouds portend another fate" as it sounds
a bit fulsome, IMHO. (pot calling the kettle black).
Colin
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Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2003 6:00 PM
Subject: a new poem: The Haggadah (The Story)
> The Haggadah (The Story)
>
> Today bright as divinity
> eastern clouds portend another fate
> We purchase horseradish
> to remind us that tears run bitter
>
> We build a Hillel sandwich
> a bit of choroset
> the apples nuts wine
> like mortar across the matza
> a horseradish dab added
> Laughing we cry
> as hot meets sweet
>
> The looting shooting flash
> across TV screen
> hours of a statue carnage
> videologued for posterity
> an American Marine buried
> with full military honors
> his casket cloaked by
> a Mexican flag
>
> The story retold
> God with an outstretched
> arm makes us free
>
> Ryfkah 4/12/03
>
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