Beth A. Fleisher<\/p>\n
Hour 18<\/p>\n
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Prompt 18: Write a narrative poem set during a holiday. It could be a poem based on your own lived experience or it could be an imagined event.<\/p>\n
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Why Is This Night Different from Every Other Night?<\/p>\n
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All is ready for the Passover feast.<\/p>\n
Sparkling glass stemware, gleaming silver utensils,<\/p>\n
the menorah with candles ready to light,<\/p>\n
a white tablecloth with fine gold embroidery.<\/p>\n
In the center of the table, the Seder Plate,<\/p>\n
which holds the traditional foods for the Passover ceremony:<\/p>\n
a roasted lamb shank bone (or a chicken neck)<\/p>\n
karpas (parsley),<\/p>\n
chazeret (bitter herbs: Romaine lettuce),<\/p>\n
charoset (sweet salad: Apples, nuts, wine, cinnamon)<\/p>\n
maror (Bitter herbs: Horseradish),<\/p>\n
Salt water,<\/p>\n
a roasted egg.<\/p>\n
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Three Matzah wait on a special plate,<\/p>\n
each separated by a white napkin,<\/p>\n
and covered with another white napkin.<\/p>\n
One is eaten with Maror<\/p>\n
and one becomes the special dessert.<\/p>\n
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In a Jewish household there is no other night<\/p>\n
as special as this night, when the story of<\/p>\n
our ancestors\u2019 flight from Egypt is recounted<\/p>\n
and acted out in ceremony<\/p>\n
to keep the deliverance story alive<\/p>\n
for the next generation.<\/p>\n
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