First Things RSS Feed - Samuel Menashe https://www.firstthings.com/author/samuel-menashe en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:54:55 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/samuel-menashe 60 Manna https://www.firstthings.com/article/2011/03/manna https://www.firstthings.com/article/2011/03/manna Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0500 Open your mouth
To feed that flesh
Your teeth have bled
Tongue us out
Bone by bone
Do not allow
Man to be fed
By bread alone

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]]> In His Image https://www.firstthings.com/article/2010/04/in-his-image https://www.firstthings.com/article/2010/04/in-his-image Thu, 01 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0400 Oh we are many
Some too fat
Others so skinny
Take us back

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]]> The Annunciation https://www.firstthings.com/article/2010/03/the-annunciation https://www.firstthings.com/article/2010/03/the-annunciation Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 She bows her head
Submissive, yet
Her downcast glance
Asks the angel, “Why
For this romance,
Do I qualify?”

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]]> Saint Askew https://www.firstthings.com/article/2009/10/saint-askew https://www.firstthings.com/article/2009/10/saint-askew Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0400 St. Askew’s shoe
Shall always undo
The earth tips
And he does too
Singing he sighs
As a halo slips
Over his eyes
Slantwise

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]]> July https://www.firstthings.com/article/2009/10/july https://www.firstthings.com/article/2009/10/july Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0400 Who would eat
An egg you fry
On the sidewalk
In July?

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]]> Hallelujah https://www.firstthings.com/article/2009/02/001-hallelujah https://www.firstthings.com/article/2009/02/001-hallelujah Sun, 01 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0500 Eyes open to praise
The play of light
Upon the ceiling”
While still abed raise
The roof this morning
Rejoice as you please
Your Maker who made
This day while you slept,
Who gives grace and ease,
Whose promise is kept.

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]]> Paradise https://www.firstthings.com/article/2008/11/001-paradise https://www.firstthings.com/article/2008/11/001-paradise Sat, 01 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0400 I wonder what the counterpart
Of the patriot is in Heaven
Or is Our Father well pleased
By silence and implicit praise
And we are at one with him breathing
Like a translucent plant that creates
Itself in each leaf”a paradise of light

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]]> The Annunciation https://www.firstthings.com/article/2008/08/the-annunciation https://www.firstthings.com/article/2008/08/the-annunciation Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0400 She bows her head
Submissive, yet
Her downcast glance
Asks the angel, “Why
For this romance,
Do I qualify?”

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]]> Safekeeping https://www.firstthings.com/article/2008/05/006-safekeeping https://www.firstthings.com/article/2008/05/006-safekeeping Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 -0400 Each thing has its tangent
Angel or ghost to keep it
From the overwhelming host

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]]> Now https://www.firstthings.com/article/2008/04/002-now https://www.firstthings.com/article/2008/04/002-now Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0400 There is never an end to loss, or hope
I give up the ghost for which I grope
Over and over again saying Amen
To all that does or does not happen”
The eternal event is now, not when

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