Editor’s Note: This year, the shofar will be blown on the second day of Rosh Hashanah, Sunday, Sept. 13, and in the Yom Kippur closing (Neilah) service, on the evening of Monday, Sept. 21.
By Jeremy Friedman in Newton, Massachusetts
TODAY the shofar
Shook me awake—
From somewhere afar—
With piercing sounds’ quake
To make me take note
Taking in a blast’s scream
Shivering … antidote …
Into a truer dream.
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This poem is a “new take” on Robert Frost’s “Dust of Snow”, from Jeremy Friedman’s book 11 New Roads Not Taken (11newroads.com). Friedman is a Massachusetts-based lawyer and poet, who has family in San Diego.