A Hallel for Sukkot
Hoshanot after the end of a marriage

Who rolls back light before dark and dark before light...

 

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Through the morning clouds
a patch of blue sky beckons
over distant hills.

 

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In the evening
the hillside darkens, purple,
framed by strings of light.

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The Sukkot full moon
paints the clouds luminescent,
almost within reach.

 

 

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Early morning haze
nestles in the near valley.
Sunlight grins, dives in.

 


The title of this post comes from the evening blessing praising God Who brings on the evening.

(Here's a post containing that prayer, as well as some contemporary renderings thereof, and some poems that work with the same themes: Looking at the prayer for evening in a new light.)

Photos taken from my wee sukkah.

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