Return to normal – is it true?Is it possible for me or you?Is it possible for the world or us?After the settling of the dust. The past is gone, not coming backThe only thing that’s writ in black Nothing can be truly the sameSo now we need a different name. We’ll get used to the […]
Ada Mark Strausberg
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The purpose of this vignette is to give a humorous example of what I believe is a not so uncommon phenomenon: old habits don’t die, pun intended. My mother died in the summer of 1990. I was born in 1947 and grew up in the Flatbush section of the borough […]
April 7, 2021 is this year’s Holocaust Remembrance Day. It is always the 27th of Nisan on the Hebrew calendar. It doesn’t synch to the Gregorian calendar, a solar one. The Islamic and Hebrew calendars are lunar based. Like the Chinese calendar, the Hebrew one adds an extra month for […]
That was in Cambodia, a basis for a movie But we are sowing our own fields, our own streetsWith violence and murder. It’s here in our backyardsThe tragedy, the sorrowWe are bombing our buildings. We are killing in our schools, our churchesOur homes are not havensOur students are not safe. Blood […]
I was touched to write this poem because of the prevalence of “anti” in the news. When this was covered on my local TV station about the incidents against Asian Americans, an Oriental woman made the comment, “Why are they hurting us? They like our food.” The four stanzas below […]
Let’s talk about the COVID-19 anniversary. Yahrzeit is the Yiddish word for “a year’s time” and is used only in reference to the death of a human being, not a birthday, wedding or specific event. Each year, as with all Jewish events, a candle is lit the evening before the […]
Image: Robert Couse-Baker (Wherefore different from all other holidays?) Passover is celebrated in Nissan, the first month of the Jewish calendar. It was the first holiday of the Israelites or Hebrews. They could not become a nation until they left Egypt and were free. Mordecai, Queen Esther’s uncle, conceived the […]
Yes, we are in the fight for our country and our lives How can we move forward when what we saw thrives? How dare they rape the word fight! What they’ve done just isn’t right! They used the word “combat” What else could be thought of that? Fight is what […]
Each time I think of this number It makes me even numb-er. The amount is beyond just vast And grows each day ever so fast! More deaths, it blows the human mind, Than WW I, II & ’Nam combined But like these vets, were linked to others: Family, friends, co-workers, […]