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Yahrzeit
Contributed by
solly
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Monday, 28th September 2015 @ 07:15:56 AM in AEST
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Yahrzeit
A solitary candle flickers and breathes
pulsating with light of remembrance.
Surrounding it, the dark room encounters
And befriends the silence of the watching walls
Caressed by the pictures, carvings, natural stones.
A faint smell of furniture, tang of polish
Muzzles under a warming tongue.
The small light beats wings against the glass
Until its energy spends one single day,
A life that weeps upon a waxen floor,
A memory burned into the atmosphere.
Reminder of the small soft warm woman
Who closed with resignation her pained brown eyes,
Now fourteen years ago, and who relives her
Short span enduring in the lonely flame.
Timid flame, tender light, trembling spark
So soon forsaken, folding in the dark,
Consumes us still with immemorial grief.
Solly Jacobson 1964
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2015-09-28 07:15:56]
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Re: Yahrzeit
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by bod on
Tuesday, 29th September 2015 @ 12:51:51 PM AEST
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| This poem is so moving and tender, remembering a very precious loved one. I think is it is so touching, I've read it several times and each time I am so moved. |
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Re: Yahrzeit
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by northernlights on
Thursday, 1st October 2015 @ 09:52:34 AM AEST
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| Remembrance in a candle, beautifully penned. |
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Re: Yahrzeit
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by ladyfawn on
Monday, 2nd November 2015 @ 12:47:46 PM AEST
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beautiful...
hugs n' love nessa
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