Boat on water picture in candle. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.
Somewhere in the mists of time
Life emerged from human cells
Humans were born with free will
Made life on earth heaven or hell
I remember Noah's ark
When the river floods my park
Old books give the antidote
Put pets in the biggest boat
Moses crossed sea and dry sands
Gave us decimal commands
Led his people forty years
Glimpsed an elusive promised land
Rashi wrote a secret script
But his words sound wise today
The efforts put in divorce
Instead could make spouses gay
After poor dead Jesus rose
Priests ate pork, wore fine clothes
Prayed to his Virgin mother
Then proudly killed each other
Maimonides wrote a guide
Told the puzzled what to do
Wrote great tomes in Arabic
Famous to Arab and Jew
I'm one small cog, not much done
Had a child, but only one
Those to come won't know my name
Yet I link life's long, strong chain.
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Gay in its meaning in Rachi's era, happy.
Maimonides wrote the Guide For The Perplexed.
Please share links to your favourite poems.
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