#SacredPosts
Leading up to our “Sacred Words” issue, we asked you to tell us, on Facebook, what “sacred” means to you. Your responses were funny, poignant and thought-provoking.
Don’t worry that it’s not good enough
For anyone else to hear
Just sing
Sing a song”
-Joe Raposo
Submitted by Itai Mesch
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The writing on the wall.
Submitted by Anthony Michael Morena
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The Torah is your Journey
to it
Sometimes you step back or sideways
though you are not supposed to
Say
the Sages of blessed
Remembrances.
Submitted by Carole Birkan
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“But the bottom line is, you are still here. And they are still there.”
—Amy Fusselman, “This Is for All the People Who Love Angels”
Submitted by Anthony Michael Morena
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Submitted by Karen Marron (via Oh Myyy)
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This is the principle of poetry as well as of magic. Although every explanation I have read gives different sources for this word, a dying friend once convinced me that the magical word, “Abracadabra,” comes from the Aramaic phrase I have adapted here as the title of this collection and translated in the title poem. “Avra” – it comes to pass, and “CeDibra” –as was spoken. It indicates that in the shaping and ordering of language is a power to change the world as we find it, that things happen as we say.
Submitted by Karen Alkalay Gut (from Avra Cadivra)
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“Why is it that we salute a person when he sneezes, an observation which Tiberius Caesar, they say, the most unsociable of men, as we all know, use to exact, when riding in his chariot even?”—Pliny, Natural History
Submitted by Anthony Michael Morena
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Nostalgia is simply when all of the right things happen a bit too early.
Submitted by Itai Mesch
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Original photo by 숀 on flickr
Submitted by Anthony Michael Morena
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In August my notebook was pickpocketed. (The cover’s leather so maybe the thief thought it was a wallet?) I haven’t written anything since.
Submitted by Karen Marron