Comments on: Kol Nidre

By: Joanne Merriam › I can’t love anyone/proud of setting me up to fail.

Joanne Merriam › I can’t love anyone/proud of setting me up to fail. — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:32:45 +0000

[...] Peg Duthie’s “Kol Nidre.” Tags: Peg Duthie, qarrtsiluni This was written by joannemerriam. Posted on Friday, [...]

By: Peg Duthie

Peg Duthie — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:54:28 +0000

I’m so pleased the words connected with you, and am grateful to you for taking the time to let me know. Blessings and best wishes.

By: Peg Duthie

Peg Duthie — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:48:30 +0000

Heh – I’m actually a theist, but my characters and I do share a predilection for meaning what we say – consequently ending up in lovers’ quarrels with virtually any liturgy we end up entangled with.

Thank you for letting me know that the poem resonated with you – and thank you also for visiting my blog (I responded to your question about the high Es, btw). I’m looking forward to browsing through more of yours once I claw out of the current avalanche of spreadsheets I’m buried under – I was in Paris just this past May, and now I can’t believe I missed all the lions!

By: JJS

JJS — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 19:20:58 +0000

I love everything about this poem. The final lines, especially: “…apples and honey…at every iteration of the Kaddish.”

Beautiful, truthful, complex. Thank you!

By: Karen Greenbaum-Maya

Karen Greenbaum-Maya — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 18:01:42 +0000

Thanks for the visit/reading and your musical comment. Here, it sounds as though you and I spent Yom Kippur in very similar ways. The line “…incomplete, like a book with a spine missing…” really works for me.

btw, regarding G*d, Samuel Beckett said, “The bastard! He doesn’t even exist!”