Eternity Utters a Day

Posted on November 5, 2010 | 5 Comments

Found this poem in a Shabbat book during a Bar Mitzvah. I used the last line to write a poem of my own – try it!

A thought has blown the marketplace away
There is a song on the wind and joy in the trees.
Shabbat arrives in the world
scattering a song in the silence of the night:
Eternity utters a day.

– Abraham Joshua Heschel (excerpt)

Here’s my attempt, starting with Heschel’s last line:

Eternity utters a day
It falls from lips too large to measure
Bounces on ground too wide to see
Unfolds into Now
Touch, open, be

Ok, your turn…

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5 responses to “Eternity Utters a Day”

Sharman Badgett | November 5, 2010 at 11:40 pm | Reply

Eternity utters a day
S0 miniscule that it is never noticed
So huge that it is that only thing that matters
To a butterfly
–Sharman Badgett
Mollsmom | November 8, 2010 at 7:12 am | Reply

Eternity utters a day
I listen
then
swan
dive
into
time.
Catherine Walter | November 15, 2010 at 3:47 pm | Reply

Eternity utters a day
Shaping the morning.
The sun arrives
To see
Which infinities unfold,
Each
Tied into
The next,
All in time.
Ina | November 24, 2010 at 11:54 am | Reply

Eternity utters a day
Silent noise is filling the space
In the time it takes for a sun ray
To embrace
This universe and milky way
Yours and mine
Forever

Ina
J.P. Urban | August 14, 2011 at 1:45 pm | Reply

Eternity utters a day.
Infinity manifests a place.
Time and space,
wondrous Shabbat!
Bound and Boundless,
Ending and Endless,
Eheyeh!