Clifton’s “i am running into a new year” works as a Rosh Hashanah poem.
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Rosh Hashanah: Running into a New Year
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Poems for Judaism’s High Holy Days
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i beg what i love and leave to forgive me
Yom Kippur is a day to ask for forgiveness so that we may leave our sins behind and begin a new. In that respect, this Clifton poem works as a Yom Kippur poem.
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Live in the Layers, Not on the Litter
In a perfect poem for Yom Kippur, Stanley Kunitz urges us to look through the litter and wreckage of our lives and see instead “the layers.”
