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Subject: YOM KIPPUR
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ADONAI MELECH, by SOLOMON SOLIS-COHEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: The lord is king! The lord was king! Forever shall the lord be king!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cohen, Solomon Solis
Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts; God; Jews; Prayer; Yom Kippur; Judaism


AFTER YOM KIPPUR, by CORA WILBURN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The great white fast! The day that solemnly
Last Line: Bind all of life in one vast brotherhood.
Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts; Friendship; Jews; Yom Kippur; Judaism


DAY OF ATONEMENT, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "this day sublime elect, my god, to thee"
Last Line: To glorify thy throne divine!
Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts;god;jews;yom Kippur; Judaism


DAY OF ATONEMENT, by JACK ELLIOTT MYERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On the day of atonement we fasted
Last Line: Ablaze, wondering how to throw the light in
Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur


DAY OF ATONEMENT, SELS., by JOSEPH LEISER    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur


EVIL HAS BEEN COMMITTED, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: We will have to fall back on
Subject(s): Arabs; Evil; Fasts And Feasts; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine; Yom Kippur


HIGH HOLY DAYS, by JANE SHORE    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was hot. A size too large
Last Line: Spat like jonah from the whale %back into the jew-hating world
Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Jews; Rosh Hashanah; Yom Kippur


KIPPUR, by REBEKAH GUMPERT HYNEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, thou eternal and omnipotent!
Last Line: Bound by love's holiest ties, our god, to thee.
Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur; Judaism


KOL NIDRE, by BENJAMIN FRIEDLANDER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I love god as even guilt can't
Last Line: The word was spoken by & to the dust %breaking in my heart
Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur


KOL NIDRE, by ROSA FELSENBURG KAPLAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: All the vows %and all the promises not kept
Last Line: Perhaps even to love them
Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Jews - Women; Yom Kippur


KOL NIDRE, by JOSEPH LEISER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Lo! Above the mournful chanting
Last Line: Breathing but the breath of ages.
Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts; God; Jews; Music & Musicians; Yom Kippur; Judaism


KOL NIDRE AT SANTO DOMINGO, by HERB BRIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Memories %auto da fe
Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur


NIGHT GAME, by ROBERT PINSKY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Some of us believe
Last Line: He refused to pitch on yom kippur
Subject(s): Baseball; Fasts And Feasts; Ford, Edward ("whitey"); Jews; Koufax, Sandy; Sports; Worship; Yom Kippur


ON THE DAY OF ATONEMENT, by STEPHEN BERG    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's god
Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur


POWDERS OF THE MERCHANT, by ALEXANDER JAVITZ    Poem Text                    
First Line: Scarlet spice
Last Line: Swift songs are drumming on the echoes of kol nidre . . .
Subject(s): Cabbala; Fasts & Feasts; Jews; Sapphires; Yom Kippur; Kabbala; Kabbalah; Judaism


PRAYER FOR THE DAY OF ATONEMENT (YOM KIPPUR, 5662), by GEORGE ALEXANDER KOHUT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If I have failed, my god, to see
Last Line: And let thy love my shelter be!
Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts; Jews; Prayer; Yom Kippur; Judaism


RIDING WESTWARD, by HARVEY SHAPIRO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It's holiday night / and crazy jews are on the road
Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur; Judaism


RIDING WESTWARD, by HARVEY SHAPIRO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It's holiday night %and crazy jews are on the road
Last Line: Here in the car and in queens and in brooklyn
Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur


THE NIGHT GAME, by ROBERT PINSKY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Some of us believe
Subject(s): Baseball; Fasts & Feasts; Ford, Edward ('whitey'); Jews; Koufax, Sandy; Sports; Worship; Yom Kippur; Judaism


TO PHILIP LEVINE, ON THE DAY OF ATONEMENT, by ROBERT MEZEY    Poem Source     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Impenitent, we meet again
Last Line: Nothing to atone for but the cold %and blurred perspectives of the dead
Variant Title(s): To A Friend On The Day Of Atonemen
Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Jews; Levine, Philip; Yom Kippur


YOM KIPPUR, by CHANA BLOCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Our new clothes fool no one
Last Line: Their gold tongues whetted
Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur


YOM KIPPUR, by ERIC CHAET    Poem Source                    
First Line: I throw off all the ceremony
Last Line: I am trying to operate %from the fire that is the bush
Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur


YOM KIPPUR, by GUSTAV GOTTHEIL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To thee we give ourselves today
Last Line: Thy light at our life's eventide.
Subject(s): Faith; Fasts & Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur; Belief; Creed; Judaism


YOM KIPPUR, by GEORGE ALEXANDER KOHUT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O lord of hosts, thou only one
Last Line: "thy will be done!"
Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts; God; Jews; Yom Kippur; Judaism


YOM KIPPUR, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We destroy we break we are broken
Last Line: But the foolish old woman who lives there refuses to leave
Subject(s): Yom Kippur


YOM KIPPUR, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A tree beside the synagogue atones
Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur; Judaism


YOM KIPPUR, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A tree beside the synagogue atones
Last Line: And leaves return to willing trees for spring
Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur


YOM KIPPUR, by DORIS RADIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A head sits upon a table
Last Line: Facinc me %until the bones of my skull %yom kippur
Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur


YOM KIPPUR, by GARRET ROSENBLATT    Poem Source                    
First Line: The world collapses upon a single day
Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur


YOM KIPPUR, by ANN MARIE SOLBERG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Your law says you belong to each other
Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur


YOM KIPPUR, by BRADLEY R. STRAHAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In this great synagogue
Last Line: That year by year %pushes heavenward %in scorn of ax and saw
Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Yom Kippur


YOM KIPPUR, by PHILIP TERMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: We swallow our won spit
Last Line: Strange to us, as we arrive, %gaunt, ravished, to break the fast
Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur


YOM KIPPUR - THE CLOSING OF THE GATES, by DANNY SIEGEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Let there be one grand cry of relief
Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur


YOM KIPPUR 1983-1988 (TO D.S.V.), by REYNOLDS PRICE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Sundown a full five years ago
Last Line: And jogged ahead to claim my crime
Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur


YOM KIPPUR 1984, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is a jew in solitude?
Subject(s): Fasts & Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur; Judaism


YOM KIPPUR 1984, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is a jew in solitude?
Last Line: In that world as it may be, newborn and haunted, what will solitude mean?
Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur


YOM KIPPUR SONNET, WITH A LINE FROM LAMENTATIONS, by JACQUELINE OSHEROW    Poem Source                    
First Line: Can a person atone for pure bewilderment?
Last Line: Return us, lord, to you, and we'll return
Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Religion; Yom Kippur


YOM KIPPUR: FASTING, by RUTH WHITMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The appetite stirs
Subject(s): Fasts And Feasts; Jews; Yom Kippur