Passover Blessing

In

April

We remember

Our lives as slaves

Long  ago  in Egypt

Eat unleavened bread

to   commemorate

the    Exodus

And we pray

for others

to be

free

 Ba ruch 

 A  t a h 

 Ad o nai 

 Eloheinu 

 M e lech 

 ha-Olam 

a s h e  r 

 kid 'shanu

 b'mitzvotav 

v ' tzivanu

 l '  had lik

neir  shel

Yom Tov 

Blessed

Art Thou

O,   Lord

Our  God

King of the

Uni v erse

Who  Hast

Commanded

Us to kindle

the light of 
the holiday

submitted for Imaginary Garden With Real Toads, Mini Challenge for Easter Sunday

The Last Supper

tHE wine won't wash down the dreary WEariness
of this
MEal
meant to NOurish so why am 
I empty
the plates
grATE
teeth
clenched
fistS under napkINS
I fold
Dinner's COLD
as YOUr stARE.

submitted for Imaginary Garden With Real Toads, Avant Edge: e.e. cummings

Letters

We found them
when we cleaned out your house
You had saved them
all these years
My letters
tied with a pink ribbon
kept in a shoebox
in your dresser
As I read through them
I saw my writing change
from big, round letters
to cursive
to hearts dotting the 'i's
to hurried adult scrawl
I met myself
as a child
a teen
and an adult again
Thank you
for giving me back a piece of
myself.

submitted (late again!) for Imaginary Garden With Real Toads, FB Friday, Postmark: Poetry

Secrets

source

 There are things we kept secret

After all, who wants to know everything

about the one they love?

Mystery is more enticing than mundane

and the unknowable is irresistible

So there are things we kept secret

after even decades had passed

and thousands of nights in the same bed

There are words we never spoke

Wishes we never shared

Walking around with dark glasses on

we bumped into edges of expectations

and tripped over each others'  hopes

until we were both so bruised

it hurt to be around each other

There are things we kept secret

after they didn't matter any more

after we bled until there was no more blood

when it was time

to either mend the holes

or die.

submitted for Imaginary Garden With Real Toads, A Month of 5 Sundays Mini Challenge, There Are Things We Kept Secret