Rosh Hashanah
(Jewish New Year celebrating 5781)
To honor Jewish New Year
I put this here:
Year, fifty seven eighty-one.
Five thousand seven hundred
Eighty-one: a time for self-renewal,
Self-reflection.
Self renewal:
Jewel
In a holiday
Which only stays
Two happy days.
A Yiddish standard wish could read;
“Have a good and blessed year!”
In Hebrew one could plead,
“Shanah Tovah!”: “Sweet’ and happy year!”
No fear but sweet good wishes from the heart
For this year’s date
Sealed by good fate.
And so, in blowing the shofar*
I pose the question:
Who could ask for more,
For duties simply put,
Lie there.
*shofar; a ram’s horn used in the Jewish High holidays to awaken the soul.
Rosh Hashanah 9.18.2020 Our Times, Our Culture II; Circling Round Experience; Arlene Nover Corwin
Arlene Corwin Poetry 